36Wherefore 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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And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-37)The greatest delinquent in the house of Ahab was Jezebel: it was she that introduced Baal, slew the Lord’s prophets, contrived the murder of Naboth, stirred up her husband first, and then her sons, to do wickedly; a cursed woman she is here called (2 Kgs. 9:34), a curse to the country, and whom all that wished well to their country had a curse for. Three reigns her reign had lasted, but now, at le…
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