Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.
Parallel translations
- WEB When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.
- KJV And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
- NKJV Now when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she put paint on her eyes and adorned her head, and looked through a window.
- NASB When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard about it, and she put makeup on her eyes and adorned her head, and looked down through the window.
- NLT When Jezebel, the queen mother, heard that Jehu had come to Jezreel, she painted her eyelids and fixed her hair and sat at a window.
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Quick answer
Hearing Jehu had come, Jezebel painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked out the window. She faced her end with defiant pride.
Overview
Jezebel's deliberate adorning, far from seduction or mere vanity, displays her regal defiance in the face of death. She meets her judgment unrepentant and proud. Her composure cannot avert the doom Elijah foretold, and her final defiance underscores the hardness of a heart set against the LORD.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Jer 4:30And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
- Ezek 23:40Furthermore, you sisters sent messengers for men who came from afar; and behold, when they arrived, you bathed for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry.
- Ezek 24:17Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.”
- Isa 3:18–24In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;
- 1 Kgs 19:1–2Now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
- 1 Tim 2:9–10Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
- 1 Pet 3:3Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,
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