2 Kings 9:24-26, 30-37 ESV

24 And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot. 25 Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, “Take him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the Lord made this pronouncement against him: 26 ‘As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares the Lord—I will repay you on this plot of ground.’ Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the Lord.”

30 When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window. 31 And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, “Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your master?” 32 And he lifted up his face to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him. 33 He said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down. And some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her. 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 Elijah the Tishbite: ‘In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel, 37 and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.’”

THE RETRIBUTION FROM GOD

In his pursuit to kill Ahab’s descendants, Jehu had shot the fleeing king Joram of Israel to death with an arrow. He then commanded his aide to “take him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite.” What is the significance of this? He rehearsed the pronouncement he heard from Elijah, the Lord had against him: ‘As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares the Lord—I will repay you on this plot of ground.’

Jehu, then proceeded to Jezreel in order to apprehend Jezebel. She was found dressed in a prostitute looking out of the window when three eunuchs threw her down as Jehu challenged them to do. It was a very horrible sight of her body tumbling down, blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her.

Apparently, Jehu was very determined to kill king Joram and Jezebel. And, although he claimed a prophetic justification for his actions, it was God who permitted everything to happen according to His words. What he did had allusion in to what Elijah had said, ‘Thus says the Lord: “In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”’[1 Kings 21:19]

God’s judgment may run slowly but surely. Ahab and Jezebel couldn’t run away from God’s retribution. They couldn’t be provoking God to anger with their idolatry forever. His clan will be obliterated by the jealous God. He has warned through Moses, saying, “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.”[Ex 20:3-5]

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