2 Kings 9:35 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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And they went to bury her,.... The servants of Jehu, according to his orders and instructions;

but they found no more of her than the scull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands; the flesh, and even all the rest of her bones, being devoured by dogs, so that there was scarce anything of her to be buried, as in 2 Kings 9:10, something similar to this happened to Ascletarion, a mathematician, as related by Suetonius o.

o In Vita Domitian. c. 15.

2 Kings 9:35

35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.