C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch on 2 Kings 9:17-21

2Ki 9:17-21

As the horsemen, who were sent to meet him on the announcement of the watchman upon the tower at Jezreel that a troop was approaching, joined the followers of Jehu, and eventually the watchman, looking down from the tower, thought that he could discover the driving of Jehu in the approaching troop, Joram and Ahaziah mounted their chariots to drive and meet him, and came upon him by the portion of the ground of Naboth the Jezreelite. The second שׁפעת in 2Ki 9:17 is a rarer form of the absolute state (see Ges. §80, 2, Anm. 2, and Ewald, §173, d.). - וּלשׁלום מה־לּך: “what hast thou to do with peace?” i.e., to trouble thyself about it. אל־אחרי סב: “turn behind me,” sc. to follow me. כם המּנהג: “the driving is like the driving of Jehu; for he drives like a madman.” בּשׁגּעון, in insania, i.e., in actual fact in praecipitatione (Vatabl.). “The portion of Naboth” is the vineyard of Naboth mentioned in 1 Kings 21, which formed only one portion of the gardens of the king’s palace.