2 Kings 9:36

36 When they came back and told him, he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Eli'jah the Tishbite, 'In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jez'ebel;

2 Kings 9:36 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 9:36

Wherefore they came again, and told him
How things were, and what only could be found of Jezebel:

and he said, this is the word of the Lord;
or the fulfilment of it:

which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying;
as in ( 1 Kings 21:23 ) .

2 Kings 9:36 In-Context

34 Then he went in and ate and drank; and he said, "See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter."
35 But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
36 When they came back and told him, he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Eli'jah the Tishbite, 'In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jez'ebel;
37 and the corpse of Jez'ebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jez'ebel.'"
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