Jehu Executes Jezebel
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Now when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; z and she put paint on her eyes and adorned her head, and looked through a window.
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Then, as Jehu entered at the gate, she said, a "Is it peace, Zimri, murderer of your master?"
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And he looked up at the window, and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" So two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
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Then he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses; and he trampled her underfoot.
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And when he had gone in, he ate and drank. Then he said, "Go now, see to this accursed woman, and bury her, for b she was a king's daughter."
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So they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
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Therefore they came back and told him. And he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, c 'On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel;
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'and the corpse of Jezebel shall be d as refuse on the surface of the field, in the plot at Jezreel, so that they shall not say, "Here lies Jezebel." ' "
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Cross References
Jeremiah 4:30
And when you are plundered, What will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, Though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, Though you enlarge your eyes with paint, In vain you will make yourself fair; Your lovers will despise you; They will seek your life.
Ezekiel 23:40
Furthermore you sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and there they came. And you washed yourself for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.
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Cross References
1 Kings 16:9 - 20
Now his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him as he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, steward of his house in Tirzah.
2 Kings 9:18 - 22
So the horseman went to meet him, and said, "Thus says the king: ' Is it peace?' " And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? Turn around and follow me." So the watchman reported, saying, "The messenger went to them, but is not coming back.
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Cross References
Exodus 22:28
You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
1 Kings 16:31
And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshiped him.
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Cross References
1 Kings 21:23
"And concerning Jezebel the LORD also spoke, saying, 'The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.'
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Cross References
Psalms 83:10
Who perished at En Dor, Who became as refuse on the earth.
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