2 Kings 9:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

For.And.

Shall perish. — Syriac, Arabic, Vulg., “I will cause to perish” (different Hebrew points). The LXX. has, “and at the hand of all the house of Ahab,” a difference of reading which favours the ordinary Hebrew text.

Him that is shut up and left (and him that is left). — Reuss imitates the alliteration of the original, “qu’il soit caché ou lâché en Israel.”

For the rest of the verse see 1 Kings 21:21, and comp. 1 Kings 14:10.

2 Kings 9:8

8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel: