Discovery Box2 Kings 9:10 
Context9:10 Dogs will devour Jezebel on the plot of ground in Jezreel; she will not be buried.’” 1 Then he opened the door and ran away.
2 Kings 9:16
Context9:16 Jehu drove his chariot 2 to Jezreel, for Joram was recuperating 3 there. (Now King Ahaziah of Judah had come down to visit 4 Joram.)
2 Kings 9:30
Context9:30 Jehu approached Jezreel. When Jezebel heard the news, she put on some eye liner, 5 fixed up her hair, and leaned out the window.
2 Kings 9:37
Context9:37 Jezebel’s corpse will be like manure on the surface of the ground in the plot of land at Jezreel. People will not be able to even recognize her.’” 6
2 Kings 10:7
Context10:7 When they received the letter, they seized the king’s sons and executed all seventy of them. 7 They put their heads in baskets and sent them to him in Jezreel.
2 Kings 10:11
Context10:11 Then Jehu killed all who were left of Ahab’s family in Jezreel, and all his nobles, close friends, and priests. He left no survivors.
1 sn Note how the young prophet greatly expands the message Elisha had given to him. In addition to lengthening the introductory formula (by adding “the God of Israel”) and the official declaration that accompanies the act of anointing (by adding “the
2 tn Heb “rode [or, ‘mounted’] and went.”
3 tn Heb “lying down.”
4 tn Heb “to see.”
5 tn Heb “she fixed her eyes with antimony.” Antimony (פּוּךְ, pukh) was used as a cosmetic. The narrator portrays her as a prostitute (see Jer 4:30), a role she has played in the spiritual realm (see the note at v. 22).
6 tn Heb “so that they will not say, ‘This is Jezebel.’”
7 tn Heb “and when the letter came to them, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered seventy men.”
