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2 Kings 9:33
“Throw her down!” yelled Jehu. So they threw her down, and her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses as they trampled her underfoot.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jehu shouts from a window to his attendants, ordering them to throw down a woman who is immediately cast out and trampled by horses and soldiers. The moment occurs during Jehu’s violent seizure of power, immediately after he calls for witnesses to look out the window.
The words — The Hebrew שִׁמְטוּ (shimtu) means "let fall" or "throw down," repeated for emphasis, while יִז (yiz) describes blood spattering against the wall.
The thread — This violent trampling mirrors the fate of the king who refused to heed Elisha’s warning in 2 Kings 7:20, and echoes the earlier judicial murder of Naboth orchestrated by Jezebel in 1 Kings 21:11.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that political and religious violence fulfills its own grim mechanics, leaving the reader to confront the cold reality of fulfilled judgment without softening the narrative.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And 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.
Cross-references
- Micah 7:10 Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.
- 1 Kings 21:11 So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.
- 2 Kings 7:20 And that is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.
- 2 Kings 9:26 ‘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.”
- Isaiah 25:10 For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
- Lamentations 1:15 The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.
- Malachi 4:3 Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
- Hebrews 10:29 How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?