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.
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.
- BSB Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from 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 4:30You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.
- Ezek 23:40“Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments,
- Ezek 24:17Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat men’s bread.
- Isa 3:18–24In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,
- 1 Kgs 19:1–2Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
- 1 Tim 2:9–10In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;
- 1 Pet 3:3Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
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