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10. The dogs shall eat Jezebel. Elijah had foretold this terrible fate that would befall Israel’s wicked queen (1 Kings 21:23; 2 Kings 9:36, 37). The name of the wife of Ahab had become synonymous with iniquity. It was she who had led the people of God into the most shameful forms of idolatry and wickedness. Hers was a terrible guilt, and she was to meet a terrible doom. The punishment meted out to Jezebel was never to be forgotten, and was to bring up in the mind of the doer of evil a vivid realization of the fact that the fate of the transgressor is hard. In the lands of the Orient there are still numerous wild and half-starved dogs that are the scavengers of the countryside and that would devour the flesh of a corpse left out in the open.

In the portion of Jezreel. It was fitting that Jezebel should suffer there, at the scene of her evil deeds, where she had threatened Elijah with destruction (1 Kings 19:2) and where she had shed the innocent blood of Naboth for the sake of his vineyard (1 Kings 21:7-15).