What command did Elisha give to one of the sons of the prophets? v. 1—3.
How did the young man execute this commission? V. 4—10.
Was there any injustice towards Ahab's house in this proceeding?
What took place when Jehu returned to his servants? v. 11—15.
What happened as he drew near to Jezreel in order to fall upon Joram?
What preparations did Joram make to meet him, and what was the issue of the interview? V. 21—24.
What was done with Joram's dead body, and why? V. 25, 26.
What was the fate of Ahaziah, and why was peculiar respect shewn to his remains? 2 Chron. 22.9.
What was the tragical end of Jezebel, and how was Jehu disappointed in his design of burying her? V. 30—35.
Of what was he reminded by this circumstance? v. 36, 37.
Do we elsewhere find that the house of Jehu was punished for the blood shed at Jezreel? Hos. 1. 4.
What remarkable allusion do we elsewhere find to Jezebel? Rev. 2. 20—23. N. B. We conceive that Jezebel in this passage of the Revelations is brought in as a type of that corrupt and apostate church which is called afterwards "The mother of harlots and abominations of the earth." Consequently if we suppose, as we may do with great probability, that the seven epistles to the Asiatic churches are prophetical of the state of religion among its true disciples in seven different periods of the church, reaching to the millennium, that to Thyatira, containing the mention of Jezebel, must be referred to the period when the pretended adulterous spouse of Christ was at her height, or when the woman sat upon the scarlet colored beast drunk with the blood of the saints, (Rev. 17. 1—7); a state of things which would naturally tend to corrupt in a measure the true church.
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