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Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how that, when I and you rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:
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God's Precise Justice
Commentators emphasize the profound significance of Joram's body being cast into Naboth's field. This wasn't a coincidence but an act of divine providence. As Matthew Henry notes, God orchestrated the circumstances to make the punishment perfectly mirror the sin committed by Joram's father, Ahab, demonstrating that God's justice is precise and inescapable.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Rode together after Ahab - The Assyrian sculptures make it probable that Josephus was right in interpreting this as “rode side by side behin…
19th Century
Anglican
Then said Jehu. —Literally, And he said.
Bidkar. —The Syriac gives Bar-dĕkar, “…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain Not Joram's, but Jehu's captain, though he had been the former's, and his fat…
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