The Meaning of 2 Kings 9:32 Explained

2 Kings 9:32

KJV: And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.

YLT: And he lifteth up his face unto the window, and saith, 'Who is with me? -- who?' and look out unto him do two or three eunuchs;

Darby: And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And two or three chamberlains looked out to him.

ASV: And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And he lifted up  his face  to the window,  and said,  Who [is] on my side? who? And there looked out  to him two  [or] three  eunuchs. 

What does 2 Kings 9:32 Mean?

Context Summary

2 Kings 9:27-37 - "the Word Of The Lord By Elijah"
Let us read again 1 Kings 21:23. How those words came back to the two men, who had heard them from the lips of God's servant years before! God's mills grind slowly, but to powder. In a deep sense Ahab's blood was licked by dogs, as it flowed from the gaping wounds of his son. As a man sows he reaps, and when his children follow his steps, they too reap. But Ezekiel makes it perfectly clear that a godly son may break the entail of his father's iniquities. See Ezekiel 18:1-32, which has a most important bearing on the modern doctrine of heredity.
Jezebel's heart was proud and unbroken. She thought to make the conqueror the slave of her charms. When these failed, she taunted him with the fate of Zimri, so closely associated with the rise of Ahab's family to the throne. His reign of seven days was thrown in Jehu's teeth, 1 Kings 16:15, etc. But Jezebel could not avert her fate. Her very chamberlains turned against her. How often does God's representative ask the same question, "Who is on my side?" Let us heed the challenge and dare to "look out" in answer! There is service appointed for us all, and we must not fail to render it. [source]

Chapter Summary: 2 Kings 9

1  Elisha sends a young prophet with instructions to anoint Jehu at Ramoth Gilead
4  The prophet having done his message, flees
11  Jehu, being made king by the soldiers, kills Joram in the field of Naboth
27  Ahaziah is slain at Gur, and buried at Jerusalem
30  Proud Jezebel is thrown down out of a window, and eaten by dogs

What do the individual words in 2 Kings 9:32 mean?

and he looked up at unto the window and said who [is] on my side who so looked out at him two [or] three eunuchs
וַיִּשָּׂ֤א פָנָיו֙ אֶל־ הַ֣חַלּ֔וֹן וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מִ֥י ؟ אִתִּ֖י ؟ מִ֑י וַיַּשְׁקִ֣יפוּ אֵלָ֔יו שְׁנַ֥יִם שְׁלֹשָׁ֖ה סָרִיסִֽים

וַיִּשָּׂ֤א  and  he  looked  up 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: נָשָׂא  
Sense: to lift, bear up, carry, take.
פָנָיו֙  at 
Parse: Noun, common plural construct, third person masculine singular
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.
אֶל־  unto 
Parse: Preposition
Root: אֶל  
Sense: to, toward, unto (of motion).
הַ֣חַלּ֔וֹן  the  window 
Parse: Article, Noun, common singular
Root: חַלֹּון 
Sense: window (piercing of the wall).
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר  and  said 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.
מִ֥י  who  [is] 
Parse: Interrogative
Root: מִי  
Sense: who?, whose?, whom?, would that, whoever, whosoever.
؟ אִתִּ֖י  on  my  side 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
Root: אֵת 
Sense: with, near, together with.
וַיַּשְׁקִ֣יפוּ  so  looked  out 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: שָׁקַף  
Sense: to overlook, look down or out, overhang, look out and down.
אֵלָ֔יו  at  him 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine singular
Root: אֶל  
Sense: to, toward, unto (of motion).
שְׁנַ֥יִם  two 
Parse: Number, md
Root: שְׁנַיִם  
Sense: two.
שְׁלֹשָׁ֖ה  [or]  three 
Parse: Number, masculine singular
Root: מִשְׁלֹשׁ 
Sense: three, triad.
סָרִיסִֽים  eunuchs 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: סָרִיס  
Sense: official, eunuch.