4 Kings 9:31
At Jehu coming in at the gate, and said: Can there be peace for Zambri, that hath killed his master?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- ingredientem Jehu per portam, et ait : Numquid pax potest esse Zambri, qui interfecit dominum suum ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ Εἰοὺ εἰσεπορεύετο ἐν τῇ πόλει, καὶ εἶπεν Ἦ εἰρήνη, Ζαμβρεί, ὁ φονευτὴς τοῦ κυρίου αὐτοῦ;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְיֵה֖וּא בָּ֣א בַשָּׁ֑עַר וַתֹּ֣אמֶר הֲשָׁל֔וֹם זִמְרִ֖י הֹרֵ֥ג אֲדֹנָֽיו
Haydock's commentary
Master. Being convinced that she could not gain the affections of Jehu, (Haydock) and thinking that he would not lay hands on a woman, (Menochius) she insolently, or in despair, (Haydock) upbraids him as a new Zambri, who might expect a similar fate, 3 Kings xvi. (Calmet)
The name of Zambri was used proverbially to denote an ungrateful rebel; as with us Judas is used for a traitor. (Tirinus)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians, Philippians 2:1-4
Seest thou his courage? Behold also the courage of John the Baptist, which he used before Herod; when he said, “It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother Philip’s wife.” ( Mark vi. 18 .) This was boldness, this was courage. Not so the words of Shimei, when he said, “Begone, thou man of blood” ( 2 Sam. xvi. 7 .), and yet he too spake with boldness; but this is not courage, but audacity, and insolence, and an unbridled tongue. Jezebel too reproached Jehu, when she said, “The slayer of his master” ( 2 Kings ix. 31 .), but this was audacity, not boldness. Elias too reproached, but this was boldness and courage; “I do not trouble Israel, but thou and thy father’s house.” ( 1 Kings xviii. 18 .) Again, Elias spake with boldness to the whole people, saying, “How long will ye go lame on both your thighs?” ( 1 Kings xviii. 21 , LXX.) Thus to rebuke was boldness and courage. …