And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Ver. 19. Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?] So Chrysostom thundered against Eudoxia the Empress for seeking after the vineyard of Callitrope, a widow; for the which she banished him, and punished him with hunger and thirst, and various other vexations, to the loss of his life: so that he may well be reckoned among the martyrs.
And thou shalt speak unto him.] Not secretly, and in his ear, but openly, and in the hearing of his servants and courtiers; which also he did. 2Ki 9:25-26
In the place where dogs licked, &c.] So Aristobulus, king of Jewry, vomited abundance of blood - and therewith soon after breathed his last - in the very place where he had slain his brother Antigonus, and acknowledged it to be the just hand of God upon himself. a So Selymus, the great Turk, struck with a most loathsome and incurable disease, ended his days at Chiurlus with an untimely and tormenting death, where he had joined battle with his own father Bajazet, A.D. 1511; God, as is to be thought, saith the historian, in the same place with revenging hand taking just punishment for his former disloyalty toward his aged father. b So the Lady Rochford - who, as it is said, had forged a letter against her own husband and Queen Anne Boleyn, his sister, accusing them of incest, for the which they were both beheaded - was afterwards herself also beheaded in the same place with Queen Katharine Howard, for her deserts, c So Babington's confederates were executed in Lincoln's-Inn-fields, even in the fields where they had often conferred for the execution of their treasons against Queen Elizabeth. d So Henry III, king of France, was stabbed to death by a Jacobin friar in that very chamber where he and his bloody brother, Charles IX, had, some few years before, plotted the Parisian massacre. Thus the Jews who had sold Christ for thirty pence - "a goodly price!" Zec 11:13 - were, at the sack of Jerusalem, sold for thirty a penny, ad illudendum, saith Hegesippus; e and in the place where they had cried out, "Crucify him, crucify him," they were miserably cut in pieces by the Roman soldiers. And thus, as one observeth, the Lord Hastings was beheaded at London that very selfsame day twelve months later, yea, the same hour, yea, the same minute, wherein he had conspired the death of the queen's children, at Pomefret Castle. f
Shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine,] sc., As it runneth in the veins of thy son Joram. 2Ki 9:25
“ Proiece tela manu sanguis meus … hoc est, O fill mi Iule. ” - Virg. Aeneid, lib. vi.
Or else we must hold that the pool of Samaria reached as far as Jezreel; so that Ahab's blood, running out of his chariot, was carried down to Jezreel, and there licked by dogs. g
a Joseph., Antiq., lib. xiii. cap. 19.
b Turk. Hist.
c Act. and Mon., fol. 1104.
d Speed, 1181.
e De Excid. Hieros., p. 680.
f Sclat., on Judges v. 31.
g Piscat. in loco.