22When 9:22 Heb JehoramJoram saw Jehu, he said, “Is your intention peace, Jehu?” And he 9:22 Lit saidanswered, “What ‘peace,’ so long as your mother Jezebel’s acts of prostitution and witchcraft are so many?”
22When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?”
22When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace [can exist] as long as the fornications of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are so many?”
22When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?”
“How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry9:22 Hebrew adultery or prostitution, here a metaphor for idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
22When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Have you come here in peace, Jehu?”
“Your mother Jezebel worships statues of gods,” Jehu replied. “She also worships evil powers. The evil things she does have spread everywhere. As long as all of that goes on, how can there be peace?”