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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 9:36 - Strong Concordance

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2Ki 9:36 Strong Concordance Wherefore they came again [07725], and told [05046] him. And he said [0559], This is the word [01697] of the LORD [03068], which he spake [01696] by [03027] his servant [05650] Elijah [0452] the Tishbite [08664], saying [0559], In the portion [02506] of Jezreel [03157] shall dogs [03611] eat [0398] the flesh [01320] of Jezebel [0348]:
  King James Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
JEZEBEL EATEN BY DOGS. (Kg2 9:36-37)

This is the word of the Lord--(See Kg1 21:23). Jehu's statement, however, was not a literal but a paraphrased quotation of Elijah's prophecy.
 
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23 And of Jezebel [0348] also spake [01696] the LORD [03068], saying [0559], The dogs [03611] shall eat [0398] Jezebel [0348] by the wall [02426] of Jezreel [03157].
36 Wherefore they came again [07725], and told [05046] him. And he said [0559], This is the word [01697] of the LORD [03068], which he spake [01696] by [03027] his servant [05650] Elijah [0452] the Tishbite [08664], saying [0559], In the portion [02506] of Jezreel [03157] shall dogs [03611] eat [0398] the flesh [01320] of Jezebel [0348]:
37 And the carcase [05038] of Jezebel [0348] shall be as dung [01828] upon the face [06440] of the field [07704] in the portion [02506] of Jezreel [03157]; so that they shall not say [0559], This is Jezebel [0348].