Holy Scripture
2 Kings 9:30
A church father on this verse
“They thought that she would have wept over her dead son, but in the very hour in which she heard that the king had come, she painted her eyes, a raving old woman, adorned her head with a miter and looked from her window so that she might be looked at. She thought that maybe [Jehu] would be seduced by her look and woul…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
30And Jehu came to Jezreel; and Jezebel heard of it, and colored her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked through the window.
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In context
28And his servants put him on a chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his sepulcher in the city of David.
29And in the eleventh year of Joram king of Israel, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
— 2 Kings 9:30 —
31And Jehu entered into the city; and she said, Had Zimri, the murderer of his master, peace?
32And he lifted up his face toward the window, and saw her, and said, Who art thou? Come down with me. And two eunuchs looked down toward him.