1 Kings 21:11

Contextual Overview

⁵Then his wife Jezebel came to him and said to him, “Why are you so upset that you refuse to eat?” ⁵ But Izevel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread? ⁵ But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread? ⁵ But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, "Why is your spirit so vexed that you eat no food?" ⁵ His wife, Jezebel, came in and asked him, "Why are you so upset that you refuse to eat?" ⁵ Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, "Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?" ⁵Then Jezebel his wife came to him and asked him, "Why is your spirit so troubled that you have not eaten?" ⁵ But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, "How is it that your spirit is so sullen that you are not eating food?" ⁵ Then Iezebel his wife came to him & said vnto him, Why is thy spirit so sad that thou eatest no bread? ⁵But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, "How is it that your spirit is so sullen that you are not eating food?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

did as Jezebel: Exodus 1:17, Exodus 1:21, Exodus 23:1, Exodus 23:2, Leviticus 19:15, 1 Samuel 22:17, 1 Samuel 23:20, 2 Kings 10:6, 2 Kings 10:7, 2 Chronicles 24:21, Proverbs 29:12, Proverbs 29:26, Daniel 3:18-25, Hosea 5:11, Micah 6:16, Matthew 2:12, Matthew 2:16, Acts 4:19, Acts 5:29

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 13:29 - servants 2 Samuel 19:21 - Shall not 2 Kings 9:33 - Throw her down 2 Kings 16:11 - built an altar Job 22:8 - But as James 2:6 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 17:18
Avraham said to God, "Oh that Yishma'el might live before you!"

Genesis 17:18
And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

Genesis 17:18
And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

Genesis 17:18
Then Abraham said to God, "Please let Ishmael be the son you promised."

Genesis 17:18
Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live before you!"

Genesis 17:18
And Abraham said to God, "Oh, that Ishmael [my firstborn] might live before You!"

Genesis 17:18
And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before You!"

Genesis 17:18
And Abraham saide vnto God, Oh, that Ishmael might liue in thy sight.

Genesis 17:18
And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before You!"

Genesis 17:18
Then he asked God, "Why not let Ishmael inherit what you have promised me?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the men of the city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them,.... That Jezebel should contrive so execrable a scheme, and that there should be such sons of Belial among the common people to swear to such falsehoods, need not seem strange; but that the elders and nobles of the city, the chief magistrates thereof, should be so sadly and universally depraved as to execute such a piece of villany, is really surprising. Idolatry, when it prevails, takes away all sense of humanity and justice:

[and] as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them; they punctually, exactly, obeyed the orders in them, as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The ready submission of the elders and nobles implies a deep moral degradation among the Israelites, the fruit of their lapse into idolatry.