1 Kings 21:23

Young's Literal Translation

`And also of Jezebel hath Jehovah spoken, saying, The dogs do eat Jezebel in the bulwark of Jezreel;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord also speaks of Jezebel: ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel in the plot of land at Jezreel:

Hebrew Names Version
Of Izevel also spoke the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Izevel by the rampart of Yizre`el.

King James Version
And of Jezebel also spake the Lord , saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

English Standard Version
And of Jezebel the Lord also said, ‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel within the walls of Jezreel.'

New Century Version
"And the Lord also says, ‘Dogs will eat the body of Jezebel in the city of Jezreel.'

New English Translation
The Lord says this about Jezebel, ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the outer wall of Jezreel.'

Amplified Bible
"The LORD also spoke in regard to Jezebel, saying, 'The dogs will eat [the body of] Jezebel in the district of Jezreel.'

New American Standard Bible
"The LORD has also spoken of Jezebel, saying, 'The dogs will eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel.'

Geneva Bible (1587)
And also of Iezebel spake the Lorde, saying, The dogs shall eate Iezebel, by the wall of Izreel.

Legacy Standard Bible
Of Jezebel also has Yahweh spoken, saying, ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel in the district of Jezreel.'

Contemporary English Version
And as for Jezebel, dogs will eat her body there in Jezreel.

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai also said this about Izevel: ‘The dogs will eat Izevel by the wall around Yizre‘el.

Darby Translation
And of Jezebel also spoke Jehovah saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the moat of Jizreel.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord also says this about your wife Jezebel: ‘Dogs will eat the body of Jezebel by the wall of the city of Jezreel.

George Lamsa Translation
And of Jezebel also the LORD spoke, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the inheritance which is in Jezreel.

Good News Translation
And concerning Jezebel, the Lord says that dogs will eat her body in the city of Jezreel.

Lexham English Bible
Moreover, concerning Jezebel, Yahweh has said, ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel in the outer rampart of Jezreel.'

Literal Translation
And also Jehovah has spoken of Jezebel, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ouer Iesabel spake the LORDE also and sayde: The dogges shal deuoure Iesabel in ye felde of Iesrael.

American Standard Version
And of Jezebel also spake Jehovah, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.

Bible in Basic English
And of Jezebel the Lord said, Jezebel will become food for dogs in the heritage of Jezreel.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And of Iezabel spake the Lord, saying: The dogges shall eate Iezabel by the wall of Iezrahel,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And of Jezebel also spoke the LORD, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the moat of Jezreel.

King James Version (1611)
And of Iezebel also spake the Lord, saying, The dogs shall eate Iezebel by the wall of Iezreel.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the servants of the king of Syria, even they said, The God of Israel is a God of mountains, and not a God of valleys; therefore has he prevailed against us: but if we should fight against them in the plain, verily we shall prevail against them.

English Revised Version
And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.

Berean Standard Bible
And the LORD also speaks concerning Jezebel: 'The dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But also the Lord spak of Jezabel, and seide, Doggis schulen ete Jezabel in the feeld of Jesrael;

Update Bible Version
And of Jezebel, Yahweh also spoke, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.

Webster's Bible Translation
And of Jezebel also spoke the LORD, saying, the dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

World English Bible
Of Jezebel also spoke Yahweh, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.

New King James Version
And concerning Jezebel the Lord also spoke, saying, 'The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall 2 Kings 9:36).">[fn] of Jezreel.'

New Living Translation
"And regarding Jezebel, the Lord says, ‘Dogs will eat Jezebel's body at the plot of land in Jezreel.'

New Life Bible
And the Lord has spoken about Jezebel, saying, ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel in the land of Jezreel.'

New Revised Standard
Also concerning Jezebel the Lord said, ‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel within the bounds of Jezreel.'

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Moreover also, concerning Jezebel, hath Yahweh spoken, saying, - The dogs, shall eat Jezebel, in the town-land of Jezreel:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And of Jezabel also, the Lord spoke, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel.

Revised Standard Version
And of Jez'ebel the LORD also said, 'The dogs shall eat Jez'ebel within the bounds of Jezreel.'

THE MESSAGE
As for Jezebel, God said, "Dogs will fight over the flesh of Jezebel all over Jezreel. Anyone tainted by Ahab who dies in the city will be eaten by stray dogs; corpses in the country will be eaten by carrion crows."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Of Jezebel also has the LORD spoken, saying, 'The dogs will eat Jezebel in the district of Jezreel.'

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ And the word of Jehovah is unto Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ¹⁸ `Rise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who [is] in Samaria, -- lo, in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he hath gone down to possess it, <sup>19</sup> and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Hast thou murdered, and also possessed? and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, do the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.' <sup>20</sup> And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found -- because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah; <sup>21</sup> lo, I am bringing in unto thee evil, and have taken away thy posterity, and cut off to Ahab those sitting on the wall, and restrained, and left, in Israel, <sup>22</sup> and given up thy house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which thou hast provoked [Me], and dost cause Israel to sin. <sup>23</sup> `And also of Jezebel hath Jehovah spoken, saying, The dogs do eat Jezebel in the bulwark of Jezreel; ²⁴ him who dieth of Ahab in a city do the dogs eat, and him who dieth in a field do fowl of the heavens eat; ²⁵ surely there hath none been like Ahab, who sold himself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, whom Jezebel his wife hath moved, ²⁶ and he doth very abominably to go after the idols, according to all that the Amorite did whom Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jezebel: 1 Kings 21:25, 2 Kings 9:10, 2 Kings 9:30-37

the dogs: Shocking as this must appear to minds that have been humanized by the kindly influence of Christianity, we still find similar instances in the accounts of modern travellers. Mr. Bruce says, that when at Gondar, "the bodies of those killed by the sword were hewn to pieces and scattered about the streets, being denied burial. I was miserable, and almost driven to despair, at seeing my hunting dogs, twice let loose by the carelessness of my servants, bringing into the court-yard the heads and arms of slaughtered men, and which I could no way prevent, but by the destruction of the dogs themselves."

wall: or, ditch.

Reciprocal: Joshua 17:16 - Jezreel 1 Samuel 29:1 - Jezreel 1 Kings 14:11 - that dieth 1 Kings 18:45 - Ahab 2 Kings 9:36 - This is Job 12:21 - poureth Proverbs 28:17 - General Jeremiah 15:3 - I will Jeremiah 16:4 - as dung Jeremiah 22:19 - General Jeremiah 34:20 - and their Revelation 2:20 - that woman

Cross-References

Genesis 20:14
And Abimelech taketh sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and giveth to Abraham, and sendeth back to him Sarah his wife;

Genesis 21:21
and he dwelleth in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother taketh for him a wife from the land of Egypt.

Genesis 21:22
And it cometh to pass at that time that Abimelech speaketh -- Phichol also, head of his host -- unto Abraham, saying, `God [is] with thee in all that thou art doing;

Genesis 21:23
and now, swear to me by God here: thou dost not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with thee thou dost with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.'

Genesis 24:3
and I cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou dost not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in the midst of whom I am dwelling;

Genesis 26:28
And they say, `We have certainly seen that Jehovah hath been with thee, and we say, `Let there be, we pray thee, an oath between us, between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

Genesis 31:44
and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.'

Genesis 31:53
the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, doth judge between us -- the God of their father,' and Jacob sweareth by the Fear of his father Isaac.

Deuteronomy 6:13
Jehovah thy God thou dost fear, and Him thou dost serve, and by His name thou dost swear;

Joshua 2:12
`And now, swear ye, I pray you, to me by Jehovah -- because I have done with you kindness -- that ye have done, even ye, kindness with the house of my father, and have given to me a true token,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And of Jezebel also spake the Lord,.... To Elijah, and by him:

saying, the dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel or in the inheritance or portion of Jezreel, as the Targum; Jarchi interprets it, the valley of Jezreel; the fulfilment of this see in 2 Kings 9:30.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And of Jezebel also spake the Lord, saying - These are not the words of Elijah, but of the writer, who notes a special prophecy against Jezebel, whose guilt was at least equal to her husband’s.

Wall - The marginal rendering “ditch,” is preferable. There is always in Oriental towns a space outside the walls which lies uncultivated, and which is naturally used for the deposit of refuse of every kind. Here the dogs prowl, and the kites and vultures find many a feast.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 23. The dogs shall eat Jezebel — This was most literally fulfilled; see 2 Kings 9:36. The carcasses of poor Hindoos, and of persons who have received public punishment, are thrown into the rivers, and floating to the side, are devoured by dogs, vultures, and crows.