Youth is always being called upon to gird up its loins, and dare to fulfill its commissions without fear of man. We are not to tarry to hear what men say of us. The King's business requires haste. Do your work and flee, before the world can scare you by its threats or cajole you by its blandishments. You have one Master, one errand: do it, and get back into His presence!
God has His appointed instruments to carry out His plans, 1 Kings 19:17. The King will avenge His own elect, though He bear long with their oppressors. Sooner or later His sentence will be executed. His servants are often accounted mad, but whether we are beside ourselves, it is to God! 2 Corinthians 5:13. Naturally his fellow-officers were astonished that Jehu should have dealings with one whose garb and bearing indicated his religious character. It is not usual for God's servants to penetrate a camp with such a message; and yet how striking would be the effect if only we could announce to the strong, swift-acting, vehement-hearted leaders of the age, that a higher vocation awaited them than they had ever conceived, and that God's anointing was within their reach. "I have anointed thee to be a king." [source]
Chapter Summary: 2 Kings 9
1Elisha sends a young prophet with instructions to anoint Jehu at Ramoth Gilead 4The prophet having done his message, flees 11Jehu, being made king by the soldiers, kills Joram in the field of Naboth 27Ahaziah is slain at Gur, and buried at Jerusalem 30Proud Jezebel is thrown down out of a window, and eaten by dogs
What do the individual words in 2 Kings 9:4 mean?
So wentthe young manthe servantof the prophetto Ramoth GileadGilead
Parse: Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: גִּלְעָד
Sense: a mountainous region bounded on the west by the Jordan, on the north by Bashan, on the east by the Arabian plateau, and on the south by Moab and Ammon; sometimes called ‘Mount Gilead’ or the ‘land of Gilead’ or just ‘Gilead’.
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