Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 9:22

22 And 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?

Dost thou come to me with a Peaceable mind, or in a way of Hostility? For now, when it was too late, he began to suspect some Treachery: which God hid from him before, to prepare him for destruction.

What cause hast thou to expect Peace, when thou hast so long abetted, and dost still abet, and allow thy Mother in her abominable practises?

Which are to be understood, Either, First, Literally; Spiritual Whoredom, which is Idolatry, being oft punished with corporal. See ver. 30. and witchcraft there was oft practised by Idolaters. Or rather, Mystically and Spiritually, of her Idolatry, which is oft called whoredom, because it is a departing from God, to whom we are all tied by many obligations; and witchcraft, either, because it doth so powerfully bewitch and deceive mens minds; or, because it is a manifest entring into Covenant with the Devil. For Idolatry being her chief sin, and the cause of all the rest, it seems improbable, that Iehu would omit that in the Inditement which he drew against her. He mentions not Ioram's, but his Mothers sins; partly, because they were more notorious and infamous: partly, because they were the principal cause why God inflicted, and he was come to execute these Judgments: partly, because by his connivence he had made them his own: and partly, because he could find no gross and odious matter wherewith to charge him, except about the worship of the Calves; which he forbore to mention, both lest it should lose his Interest amongst his Officers and Soldiers, who were devoted to that worship; and because he himself intended to keep it up.