2 Kings 9:27-32

27 When Ahaziah king of Judah saw what had happened, he fled up the road to Beth Haggan.^[a] Jehu chased him, shouting, “Kill him too!” They wounded him in his chariot on the way up to Gur near Ibleam, but he escaped to Megiddo and died there.

28 His servants took him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him with his ancestors in his tomb in the City of David.

29 (In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king of Judah.)

Jezebel Killed

30 Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window.

31 As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?”^[b]

32 He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him.

2 Kings 9:27-32 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 9

In this chapter we are told that one of the sons of the prophets was sent by Elisha to anoint Jehu king of Israel, and to order him to smite and destroy the whole house of Ahab, 2Ki 9:1-10, which being done unto him, and the order received by Jehu, he acquainted his captains with it, 2Ki 9:11-15, who set out with him immediately to Jezreel, 2Ki 9:16-21, where he slew Joram king of Israel, 2Ki 9:22-26, and Ahaziah king of Judah, 2Ki 9:27-29, and Jezebel, the widow of Ahab, and mother of Joram, 2Ki 9:30-37.

Cross References

• 1. S Judges 1:27
• 2. 2 Kings 23:29
• 3. 2 Kings 14:20; 2 Kings 23:30
• 4. 2 Kings 8:25
• 5. Jeremiah 4:30; Ezekiel 23:40
• 6. 1 Kings 16:9-10

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "fled by way of the garden house"
• [b]. Or "“Was there peace for Zimri, who murdered his master?”"