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Elijah and Jehu
How Elijah and Jehu are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Elijah's word reached Jehu.
Elijah told Ahab that dogs would eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. When Jehu had her thrown down, he called what followed "the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite".
The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel
1 Kings 21:23, King James Version
when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the Lord laid this burden upon him
2 Kings 9:25, King James Version
This is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite
2 Kings 9:36, King James Version
Where they cross: 2 Kings 9:30-37
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
1 Kings 21:23
23And of Jezebel also spake the Lord, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
2 Kings 9:25
25Then 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;
2 Kings 9:30-37
30And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
31And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
32And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
33And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.
34And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king’s daughter.
35And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
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:
37And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
King James Version