2 Kings 9:35

35 When they went to bury her, they could not find her, except the skull, the feet, and the palms of the hands.

2 Kings 9:35 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 9:35

And they went to bury her
The servants of Jehu, according to his orders and instructions;

but they found no more of her than the scull, and the feet, and the
palms of her hands;
the flesh, and even all the rest of her bones, being devoured by dogs, so that there was scarce anything of her to be buried, as in ( 2 Kings 9:10 ) , something similar to this happened to Ascletarion, a mathematician, as related by Suetonius ^F15.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 In Vita Domitian. c. 15.

2 Kings 9:35 In-Context

33 So he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down, and her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled her.

34 Then he came and ate and drank, and said, "Please take care of this cursed one and bury her, for she is the daughter of a king."

35 When they went to bury her, they could not find her, except the skull, the feet, and the palms of the hands.

36 They returned and told him, and he said, "This [is] the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'On the plot of ground of Jezreel, the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel.'"

37 So the dead body of Jezebel became dung on the surface [spread] on the field in the plot of ground of Jezreel, so one cannot say, "This [is] Jezebel."