And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
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Gill's Exposition
And when he was come in,.... To the palace:
he did eat and drink; to refresh himself after so long a march, and doing such execution:
and said, go see now this cursed woman; who had been the means…
Barnes' Notes
Painted her face - literally, “put her eyes in antimony “ - i. e., dyed the upper and under eyelids, a common practice in the East, even at the present day. The effect is at once to increase the…
Adam Clarke
She painted her face, and tired her head - She endeavored to improve the appearance of her complexion by paint, and the general effect of her countenance by a tiara or turban head-dress. Jonathan, the…
The greatest delinquent in the house of Ahab was Jezebel: it was she that introduced Baal, slew the Lord's prophets, contrived the murder of Naboth, stirred up her husband first, and then her sons, to…
Cambridge Bible
The fate of Jezebel (Not in Chronicles)
30. when Jehu was come to Jezreel Very little time could have elapsed between the slaying of Joram and the advance from Naboth's vineyard to the palace. But the…
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