_ 18 S0 there weit one on horſeback romeer him, and taid, Thus faith the king, Is it peace? And Jchu ſaid, What halt chouto do with peace 5? turn thee behind me. Anuthe watchman toid, ſaying, The meilenger came to them, but hv cometh nor agein.
6 What right haſt thou, or thy Maſter thac feat thee, to Peace ?
19 Ihen heſent our a fecund 0a hojteback, which
3'M 4 came
!'ord k, and one ſaid unto him, Is all | well/2 Where- + Heb.
T Hebe
reigneth,
hap. IX, I K 1
came to then, and ſaid, Thus ſaith the king, 1: it peace* And Jchu anſwered, What haſt thou to do with peace : turn thou behind me. ; 20 And the watch-man told, ſaying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again : and the || driving 3s ching. like the driving of Jehu the ſon of Nimſhi : for he dri- Heb. veth Þ furiouſly c, 0 | nmadneſs, c« As his Temper is haſty andfierce, ſo is his March.
- 21 And Joram ſaid, + Make ready. Andhischariot : _ was made ready. And Joram king of Ifrael, and Aha- ziah king of Judah went out, cachin his chariot, and they went our againſt Jehu 4, and + met him in tne
portion of Naboth the Jezreelite e.
d Or, to meet Jehu, to know his Intentions, and by his Preſen ce torepreſs any ſeditious Inclinations which might be in Jeb or his Followers. e In that Field which formerly
belonged to Naveth, art whereof was incloſed by 4hab, and made a Garden.
x 22 And it came to paſs when Joram ſaw Jehu, that
he ſaid, 1 ir peacef, Jehu? And he anſwered, What
peace g, ſo long as the whoredoms of thy mother
Jezebel, and her witchcrafts b are ſo many ?
f Doſt thou come to me with a peaceable Mind, or in a way of Hoftility * For now, when it was to5 late, he began to m_ ſome Treachery : which God hid from him before, to prepare him for Deftrution, g What cauſe haſt thou to expett Peace, when thou haſt ſo long abetted, and doſt ſtill aber, and allow thy Mother 5n her abominable Prafices ? þ Which are to be unJerſtood, either, Firſt, Literally : Spiritual Whoredom, which is Idolatry, being oft puniſhed with corporal. Sce v2? 0. and Witchcraft there was oft practiſed by Idolaters. Or rather, Myſtically and Spiritually, of her Idolatry, which is oft called Whereaorm, becauſe it 1s a departing from God, to whom we are all tied by many Obligations 3 and Witchcraft, either, becauſe it doth ſo powerfully bewitch and deceive Mens Minds 5 or, becauſe it is a manifeſt entring into Covenant with the Devil. For Idolatry being her chief Sin, andthe cauſe of all the reſt, it ſeems improbable, that Jehu would omit that in the
' Inditement which he drew againſt her. He mentions not Joram's, but his Mothers Sins ; partly, becauſe they were more notorions and infamous : partly, becauſe they were the principal cauſe why God inflicted, and he was come to execute theſe Judgments : partly, becauſe by his Connivance he had made them his own : and partly, becauſe he could find no groſs and odious matter wherewith to
EE: charge him, except about the Worſhip of the Calves ; which he
=} forbore to mention, bothleſt it ſtheuld loſe his Intereſt amongſt his
Officers and Soldiers, who were dovoted to that Worſhip ; and be-
cauſe he himſelf intended to keep it up. .
23 And Joram turned his handsz, and fied, and ſaid
to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
; Either, that therewith he might turn the Reins of the Chariot : or, that by this motion he might direQ his Chariotcer to turn it
h an And Jehu f drew a bow with his full ſtrength, and
ſmote Jehoram between his arms &, and the arrow went
z Out at his heart, and he + ſunk downin his charior. & Between his Shoulders. when he was turned,or turning back,the Chariot being probably open behind, as many times they were:
hand wit
Heb . : b Snrcy 1 NE 25 Then faid Fehbu to Bidkar his captain, 'Vake up, and caſt him in the portion of the fieid of Naboth the IOr, Jezreelite : for remember how that || when I and thou
7 and thou rode together after Ahab his father /, * the LORD laid
* were ih tj. burden m upon hime
them that | Which might be when Abab went in his Chariot, attended with
his Nobles or chief Officers ( of which theſe were two ) to take a
formal and ſolemn poſſeſſion of Naboths Land ; for then the Prophet
216 29% 1 19, &c. i, E. this grievous Prophecy : for ſuch are oft, and
truly called burdens, as 1/a- 13: 1: and 15: 1; Jer: 23: 33, 34. Nthbi 1: 26 Surely, I have feen yeſterday, the + blood of
SH. Naboth, and the blood of his ſons », faid the LORD, oas. 3 Py . oy #
and I will requite thee in this |! plat o, faith the LORD. I! Or, Now therefore take and caſt himinto the plat of greundp,
Portions
according to the word of the LORD.
» Who, as it ſeems, were killed with their Father by Jezebel”s advice, to make the poſſeſſion of the Vineyard more ſure to Ahab, though it be not mentioned in its proper place, 1 Kings 21; 13. For it is not unuſual to bring in ſuch fragmentsof Hiſtory in ſuccecd- ing Writings which were neglected in the Hiſtory of thoſe matrers. Thus we read of the Earthquake in the days of Uzziah, Amos 1% 1. which was not recorded in his Hiſtory in the Books of the Kings or Chronicles. Although he might well be charged with taking away the lives of his Sons, becauſe he took away the neceſſary ſupports of their lives: o Of which ſee the Noteson 1 Kings 21: 19, p Wheie he ſhall Jie unburied, and be a prey to the Dogs or Fowls, accor-
27 C But when Ahaziah the king of Judah ſaw 7s, he fled by the way of the garden-houſe q: andJehu fol- lowedafter him,and ſaid, Smite him alſo r in the chariot : end they did ſo { at the going up to Gur, which 7s by Ibleam : and he fled ro Megiddo, and died theret.
gq By ſome ſecret way, hoping to eſcape, whilſt they were buſic about Jeram. . r As you have done Joram, for he alſo is of the Houſe of Ahab, chap: 8:18, ſ They ſmote or wounded him, but not mortally ; either, ſuppoſing that the wound was mortal ; or, being more remiſs in executing Jehu's Sentence againſt him, becauſe they were not ſo much concerned in his, as in Jorams Death , or, becauſe they had ſome kindneſs for him, either for his own, or for Jehoſbaphats ſake. # Que. How doth this agree with 2 Chron 22: g. He ſought Abaziah :; and they caught him, for he was hid in Samaria, and brought him to
Jebu ; and when they had Nluin him, &c ? Anſ. Either, Furlt, Somaria
yy . S . * A r Kings Elijah met him, and denounced this Judgment againſt him, 1 Kings |
ding to the prediQtion, 1 Kings 21: 24.
N G 8. Chap X.