2Ki 9:30 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.
Painted her face and tired her head...what is that?
painted - H7760 - A primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literally, figuratively, inferentially and elliptically).
and
H6320 - From an unused root meaning to paint; dye (specifically stibium for the eyes).
H7760 - I literally gasped out loud on this one - used 580 times in 546 verses.
Interestingly H6320 is used only 4 times in Scripture, 1x in the verse above and then as follows:
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. (1 Chronicles 29:2)
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. (Isaiah 54:11)
And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life. (Jeremiah 4:30)
2Ch 22:10 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
Note to self...why? Why would she destroy all the descendants? Checking commentaries, companion verse 1 Kings 11:1, Gill commentary:
and destroyed all the seed royal; that were left, for many had been slain already; the sons of Jehoshaphat, the brothers of Joram, were slain by him, 2Ch_21:4 and all Joram's sons, excepting Ahaziah, were slain by the Arabians, 2Ch_22:1, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah were slain by Jehu, 2Ki_11:8, these therefore seem to be the children of Ahaziah, the grandchildren of this brutish woman, whom she massacred out of her ambition of rule and government, which perhaps she was intrusted with while her son went to visit Joram king of Israel; other reasons are by some assigned, but this seems to be the chief. For the same reason Laodice, who had six sons by Ariarathes king of the Cappadocians, poisoned five of them; the youngest escaping her hands, was murdered by the people (x), as this woman also was.
K&D Commentary on 1 Kings 11:1-3 - which I found interesting as I had detailed the different spheres that Jehosheba held.
The Government of Athaliah (cf. 2Ch_22:10-12). After the death of Ahaziah of Judah, his mother Athaliah, a daughter of Ahab and Jezebel (see at 2Ki_8:18 and 2Ki_8:26), seized upon the government, by putting to death all the king's descendants with the exception of Joash, a son of Ahaziah of only a year old, who had been secretly carried off from the midst of the royal children, who were put to death, by Jehosheba, his father's sister, the wife of the high priest Jehoiada, and was first of all hidden with his nurse in the bed-chamber, and afterwards kept concealed from Athaliah for six years in the high priest's house. The ו before רָאֲתָה is no doubt original, the subject, Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah, being placed at the head absolutely, and a circumstantial clause introduced with וְרָאֲתָה: “Athaliah, when she saw that, etc., rose up.” הַמַּמְלָכָה כָּל־זֶרַע, all the royal seed, i.e., all the sons and relations of Ahaziah, who could put in any claim to succeed to the throne. At the same time there were hardly any other direct descendants of the royal family in existence beside the sons of Ahaziah, since the elder brothers of Ahaziah had been carried away by the Arabs and put to death, and the rest of the closer blood-relations of the male sex had been slain by Jehu (see at 2Ki_10:13). - Jehosheba (יְהֹושֶׁבַע, in the Chronicles יְהֹושַׁבְעַת), the wife of the high priest Jehoiada (2Ch_22:11), was a daughter of king Joram and a sister of Ahaziah, but she was most likely not a daughter of Athaliah, as this worshipper of Baal would hardly have allowed her own daughter to marry the high priest, but had been born to Joram by a wife of the second rank. מְמֹותִים (Chethîb), generally a substantive, mortes (Jer_16:4; Eze_28:8), here an adjective: slain or set apart for death. The Keri מוּמָתִים is the participle Hophal, as in 2Ch_22:11. הם בַּחֲדַר is to be taken in connection with תִּגְנֹב: she stole him (took him away secretly) from the rest of the king's sons, who were about to be put to death, into the chamber of the beds, i.e., not the children's bed-room, but a room in the palace where the beds (mattresses and counterpanes) were kept, for which in the East there is a special room that is not used as a dwelling-room (see Chardin in Harm. Beobb. iii. p. 357). This was the place in which at first it was easiest to conceal the child and its nurse. וַיַּסְתִּרוּ, “they (Jehosheba and the nurse) concealed him,” is not to be altered into וַתַּסְתִּירֵהוּ after the Chronicles, as Thenius maintains. The masculine is used in the place of the feminine, as is frequently the case. Afterwards he was concealed with her (with Jehosheba) in the house of Jehovah, i.e., in the home of the high-priest in one of the buildings of the court of the temple.
Jehosheba - H3089 - From H3068 and H7650; Jehovah-sworn; Jehosheba, an Israelitess.
- H3068 - From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.
- H7650 - A primitive root; properly to be complete, but used only as a denominative from H7651; to seven oneself, that is, swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times).
Jehosheba - responsibilities/functions:
- Daughter - Jehoram, king
- Wife - Jehoiada, priest
- Sister - Ahaziah, king
- Aunt - Joash, future king
We all have a variety of spheres we operate. As a physical child we can cover many facets, but as a spiritual child, only two. We can never be a wife, mother, aunt, grandmother. Only as a daughter or sister. Interesting to think about what functions as a daughter of the King HE would have us offer unto Him. As sisters in the Lord, what service can we render unto the Bride. As I pondered Jehosheba further, how am I emulating her example to protect the seed royal?
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