Then he raised his face toward the window and said, “Who is with me, who?” And two or three officials looked down at him.
Parallel translations
- WEB He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
- 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.
- BSB He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.
- NKJV And he looked up at the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” So two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
- NLT Jehu looked up and saw her at the window and shouted, “Who is on my side?” And two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
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Quick answer
Jehu called out for allies at the window, and two or three eunuchs looked down to him. Even Jezebel's own attendants turned against her.
Overview
Jehu's challenge, 'Who is on my side?', exposes how isolated Jezebel had become, as her own palace servants sided with him. The eunuchs' response reveals that the household had abandoned the queen. This abandonment shows the collapse of her power and prepares for the swift execution of God's judgment upon her.
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- Exod 32:26then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on Yahweh’s side, come to me!” All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.
- 1 Chr 12:18Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse. Peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps you.” Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
- 2 Chr 11:12He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
- Esth 1:10On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
- Esth 2:21In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.
- Esth 2:15Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.
- Acts 12:20Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.
- Ps 124:1–2A Song of Ascents. By David. If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,
- Ps 118:6Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
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