Now summon all Israel to meet me at Mount Carmel, along with the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel’s table.’
2 Kings 9:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised When Joram saw Jehu he asked, ‘Do you come in peace, Jehu? ’ He answered, ‘What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and sorcery from your mother Jezebel? ’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When Joram saw Jehu, he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, How can peace exist as long as the fornications of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? Common English Bible When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?” He said, “How can there be peace as long as the immoralities of your mother Jezebel and her many acts of sorcery continue?” Catholic Public Domain Version And when Joram had seen Jehu, he said, "Is there peace, Jehu?" And he responded: "What is peace? For still the fornications of your mother, Jezebel, and her many poisons, are thriving." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is there peace, Jehu? And he answered: What peace? So long as the fornications of Jezabel thy mother, and her many sorceries are in their vigour. |
Now summon all Israel to meet me at Mount Carmel, along with the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel’s table.’
and took a hundred prophets and hid them, fifty men to a cave, and provided them with food and water when Jezebel slaughtered the Lord’s prophets.
Still, there was no one like Ahab, who devoted himself to do what was evil in the Lord’s sight, because his wife Jezebel incited him.
So a horseman went to meet Jehu and said, ‘This is what the king asks: “Do you come in peace? ” ’ Jehu replied, ‘What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me.’ The watchman reported, ‘The messenger reached them but hasn’t started back.’
but have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves like the house of Ahab prostituted itself, and also have killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you,
a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.
Because of the continual prostitution of the prostitute, the attractive mistress of sorcery, who treats nations and clans like merchandise by her prostitution and sorcery,
the light of a lamp will never shine in you again; and the voice of a groom and bride will never be heard in you again. All this will happen because your merchants were the nobility of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.
For all the nations have drunk the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath. The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from her sensuality and excess.
Samuel did what the Lord directed and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, ‘Do you come in peace? ’