2 Kings 9:22
When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
Note Hebrew adultery or prostitution, here a metaphor for idolatry
And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?”
And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Is it peace
- 2 Kings 9:17
- What peace
- 2 Kings 9:18; Isaiah 57:19–21
- the whoredoms
- 1 Kings 16:30–33; 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 19:1, 2; 1 Kings 21:8–10, 25; Nahum 3:4; Revelation 2:20–23; Revelation 17:4, 5; Revelation 18:3, 23