and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the surface of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they won’t say, “This is Jezebel.”’”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 37. Jezabel? So fallen ( Menochius.) and degraded, though once possessed of so much power and beauty! sic transit gloria mundi. Hebrew and Septuagint “that they shall not say, This is Jezabel!” Bible.—No monument shall recall her to the remembrance of men. Calmet.—Her body cannot be recognized. This will be the fate of the greatest mortal beauties, a few days after their departure. S. Francis Borgia durst not take an oath that the corpse which he had to attend, was that of the late beautiful empress Isabella: so much was it already disfigured. This sight was the beginning of his conversion, and of that eminent sanctity to which he attained, by despising all that the world can give or take away. Bible.—The Spanish interpreters call Achab’s widow, Isabella: and she seems to have been the sister, or relation, of Dido, who founded Carthage about this time; ( Tirinus.) Salien says in the 16th year of Jehu. A.Calmet. 887. Bible.