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2 Kings 9:22

And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

KJV

Cumque vidisset Joram Jehu, dixit : Pax est, Jehu ? At ille respondit : Quæ pax ? adhuc fornicationes Jezabel matris tuæ, et veneficia ejus multa, vigent.

Vulgate

καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς εἶδεν Ἰωρὰμ τὸν Εἰού, καὶ εἶπεν Ἦ εἰρήνη, Εἰού; καὶ εἶπεν Εἰού Τί εἰρήνη; ἔτι αἱ πορνεῖαι Ἰεζάβελ τῆς μητρός σου καὶ τὰ φάρμακα αὐτῆς τὰ πολλά.

LXX

And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

ASV

וַ/יְהִ֗י כִּ/רְא֤וֹת יְהוֹרָם֙ אֶת יֵה֔וּא וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר הֲ/שָׁל֣וֹם יֵה֑וּא וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ מָ֣ה הַ/שָּׁל֔וֹם עַד זְנוּנֵ֞י אִיזֶ֧בֶל אִמְּ/ךָ֛ וּ/כְשָׁפֶ֖י/הָ הָ/רַבִּֽים

Hebrew

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In this verse

People JezebelJehu

In the original Hebrew

14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִיזֶ֔בֶל
'yzbl
proper_noun · 22×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
הָ
h
noun · 6×
וֹ
v
noun · 220×
זְנוּנִים֙
znvnym
noun · 12×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יְהוֹרָם֙
yhvrm
proper_noun · 29×
יֵהוּא֙
yhv'
proper_noun · 58×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
עַד
'd
noun · 1257×
רַב
rb
verb · 458×
שָׁלֽוֹם
shlvm
noun · 235×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 16:30 — And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him.
  • 1Kgs 18:4 — For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
  • 1Kgs 19:1 — And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
  • 1Kgs 21:8 — So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
  • 1Kgs 21:25 — But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
  • 1Kgs 22:8 — And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.
  • 1Sam 16:4 — And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
  • 2Chr 21:13 — But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of
  • 2Kgs 9:11 — Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
  • 2Kgs 9:18 — So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenge
  • Isa 57:19 — I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
  • Isa 57:21 — There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
  • Nah 3:4 — Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
  • Prov 7:10 — And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
  • Rev 2:20 — Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat th
  • Rev 18:3 — For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abunda
  • Rev 18:23 — And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth;
  • Rev 18:23 — And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth;