2 Kings 9:25
23 Joram turned around and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”
24 Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot.
And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him:
26 ‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”
27 When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him:
- KJV
- Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
- WEB
- Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden on him:
- ASV
- Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, Jehovah laid this burden upon him:
- DARBY
- And he said to Bidkar his captain, Take him up [and] cast him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jizreelite. For remember how, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, that Jehovah laid this burden upon him:
- BLB
- And he said to Bidkar his captain, “Lift up [and] throw him into the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for remember that I and you were riding together behind Ahab his father, and YHWH lifted up upon him this burden:
- ÅB
- Da sa Jehu til sin høvedsmann Bidkar: Ta og kast ham inn på jisre'elitten Nabots mark! Kom i hu hvordan jeg og du red sammen etter hans far Akab, og Herren uttalte dette ord mot ham:
- OTB
- Og Jehu sa til Bidkar, sin offiser, “Ta ham opp og kast ham på Nabots jizre'elittens mark, for husk, da du og jeg red sammen bak Ahab, hans far, uttalte Herren denne dommen mot ham:
- B1930
- Da sa Jehu til sin høvedsmann Bidkar: Ta og kast ham inn på jisre'elitten Nabots mark! Kom i hu hvorledes jeg og du red sammen efter hans far Akab, og Herren uttalte dette ord mot ham:
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Kings 21:19
Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”
Read in contextIsaiah 13:1
This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
Read in context1 Kings 21:24–29
Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”
Read in contextJeremiah 23:33–38
“Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’
Read in contextMalachi 1:1
This is the burden of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi:
Read in contextMatthew 11:30
For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Read in contextNahum 1:1
This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
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