2 Kings 9:35 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

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. The skull - the feet, and the palms of her hands - The dogs did not eat those parts, say Jarchi and Kimchi, because in her festal dances she danced like a dog, on her hands and feet, wantonly moving her head. What other meaning these rabbins had, I do not inquire. She was, no doubt, guilty of the foulest actions, and was almost too bad to be belied.

How literally was the prediction delivered in the preceding book, (1 Kings 21:23, The dogs shall eat Jezebel, by the wall of Jezreel), fulfilled! And how dearly did she and her husband Ahab pay for the murder of innocent Naboth!

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.