2 Kings 9 Bible study: Is it peace?

The LORD had told Elijah, "Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel" (1 Kings 19:16). Now Elisha calls "one of the sons of the prophets" (9:1) and tells him, "Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead" (9:1). He is to take Jehu "to an inner room" (9:2), pour the oil on his head, say "I have anointed you king over Israel" (9:3), and then "open the door, flee, and don’t wait" (9:3) (tap anointed). In the room the words are longer. "The young man, the young prophet" (9:4) says, "The LORD, the God of Israel, says" (9:6): "I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel" (9:6), and "You must strike your master Ahab’s house" (9:7), with the word against the house and against Jezebel (9:8-10). "Then he opened the door and fled" (9:10). When Jehu comes out to the servants of his lord, one of them asks, "Is all well? Why did this madman come to you?" (9:11) (tap madman). Jehu tries to wave it away, "You know the man and how he talks" (9:11), and they answer, "That is a lie. Tell us now" (9:12). When he tells them, "each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet" (9:13), saying, "Jehu is king" (9:13).

2 Kings 9:7→leads toLuke 11:50

The word to Jehu gives the reason for his charge: "that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel" (9:7); 1 Kings had told how "Jezebel killed the LORD’s prophets" (1 Kings 18:13). Jesus, speaking to those who "build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them" (Luke 11:47), says that the wisdom of God said, "I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute" (Luke 11:49), "that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation" (Luke 11:50). Jesus doesn't name Jezebel or 2 Kings, so setting his words beside 9:7 is a reading: both speak of God calling to account those who shed the blood of his prophets. Others read 9:7 only as the reason the chapter gives for the judgment on Ahab's house, with nothing said about Jesus.

שָׁלוֹםshalomsay sha-LOHM

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "completeness, soundness, welfare, peace". Strong's: "safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly". The word comes nine times in this chapter, more than in any other chapter of 2 Kings. The "Is all well?" put to Jehu (9:11), the king's "Is it peace?" (9:17, 9:18, 9:22) and Jezebel's "Do you come in peace" (9:31) are, in Hebrew, the same single word, hashalom, "Is it peace?" (in 9:19 the rider says the word without the question marker). Jehu turns it back to the riders and to Joram: "What do you have to do with peace?" (9:18, 9:19), "What peace…?" (9:22). Five chapters earlier, the Shunammite answered Gehazi's questions with the same word: "It is well" (4:26).