Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageWhen Joram saw Jehu, he called out, "Is it peace, Jehu?" Jehu replied, "Peace? How can there be peace while your mother Jezebel's prostitutions and her endless witchcrafts still hold sway?"
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GWhen Yoram saw Yehu, he called out, "Is it peace, Yehu?" He replied, "What peace can there be, so long as the harlotries of your mother Izevel and her countless sorceries go on?"
KJV
King James VersionAnd it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
BSB
Berean Standard BibleWhen Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
Footnotes
Two charged terms define Jezebel's crimes. *Zenut* (זְנוּנִים), from the root for prostitution/harlotry, is the standard prophetic metaphor for idolatry as covenant adultery — spiritual unfaithfulness expressed through the body of the nation (cf. Hos. 1–3; Ezek. 16). *Keshafim* (כְּשָׁפִים) denotes sorceries and witchcraft — occult ritual manipulation (cf. Nah. 3:4, where Nineveh is identically indicted). Together they constitute the full anti-covenant package. FOG renders *zenut* as "harlotries" to preserve the shocking covenantal connotation; FOG Message uses "prostitutions" for visceral directness. Both capture the prophetic indictment as Jehu's legal ground for the execution.