This he suddenly commanded: either because he had forgot the charge given him above, 2Ki_9:10, or because having done his own business, he was careless about God’s work, and the fulfilling of his threatening.
For she is a king’s daughter: see 1Ki_16:31. He doth not say, because she was a king’s wife, lest he should seem to show any respect to that wicked and cursed house of Ahab, which God had devoted to ignominy and utter destruction.