2 Raja-raja 9:7-10

9:7 You will destroy the family of your master Ahab. ¹  I will get revenge against Jezebel for the shed blood of my servants the prophets and for the shed blood of all the Lord’s servants. ²  9:8 Ahab’s entire family will die. I ³  will cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. ⁴  9:9 I will make Ahab’s dynasty ⁵  like those of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah. 9:10 Dogs will devour Jezebel on the plot of ground in Jezreel; she will not be buried.’” ⁶  Then he opened the door and ran away.

2 Raja-raja 9:36-37

9:36 When they went back and told him, he said, “The Lord’s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, ⁷  ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh. 9:37 Jezebel’s corpse will be like manure on the surface of the ground in the plot of land at Jezreel. People will not be able to even recognize her.’” ⁸ 

2 Raja-raja 10:10-11

10:10 Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the Lord announced against Ahab’s dynasty has failed to materialize. The Lord had done what he announced through his servant Elijah.” ⁹  10:11 Then Jehu killed all who were left of Ahab’s family in Jezreel, and all his nobles, close friends, and priests. He left no survivors.

2 Raja-raja 10:31

10:31 But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the Lord God of Israel. ¹⁰  He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit. ¹¹ 

2 Raja-raja 19:25

19:25 ¹² Certainly you must have heard! ¹³ 

Long ago I worked it out,

In ancient times I planned ¹⁴  it;

and now I am bringing it to pass.

The plan is this:

Fortified cities will crash

into heaps of ruins. ¹⁵ 

[9:7]  ¹ tn Or “strike down the house of Ahab your master.”

[9:7]  ² tn Heb “I will avenge the shed blood of my servants the prophets and the shed blood of all the servants of the Lord from the hand of Jezebel.”

[9:8]  ³ tc The LXX has the second person, “you.”

[9:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “and I will cut off from Ahab those who urinate against a wall, [including both those who are] restrained and let free [or, ‘abandoned’] in Israel.” On the phrase וְעָצוּר וְעָזוּב (vÿ’atsur vÿ’azur, translated here “weak and incapacitated”) see the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.

[9:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “house.”

[9:10]  ⁶ sn Note how the young prophet greatly expands the message Elisha had given to him. In addition to lengthening the introductory formula (by adding “the God of Israel”) and the official declaration that accompanies the act of anointing (by adding “the Lord’s people”), he goes on to tell how Jehu will become king (by a revolt against Ahab’s dynasty), makes it clear that Jehu will be an instrument of divine vengeance, and predicts the utter annihilation of Ahab’s family and the violent death of Jezebel.

[9:36]  ⁷ tn Heb “It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, saying.”

[9:37]  ⁸ tn Heb “so that they will not say, ‘This is Jezebel.’”

[10:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “Know then that there has not fallen from the word of the Lord to the ground that which the Lord spoke against the house of Ahab. The Lord has done that which he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah.”

[10:31]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart.”

[10:31]  ¹¹ tn Heb “He did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to commit.”

[19:25]  ¹² tn Having quoted the Assyrian king’s arrogant words in vv. 23-24, the Lord now speaks to the king.

[19:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say.

[19:25]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “formed.”

[19:25]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and it is to cause to crash into heaps of ruins fortified cities.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb תְּהִי (tÿhi) is the implied plan, referred to in the preceding lines with third feminine singular pronominal suffixes.