Chapter 10:
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2 Kings 10
10:1 And Ahab had seventy
a
sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of
Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's [children], saying,
(
a) The Scripture calls them sons who are either
children or nephews.
10:3 Look even out the
best and meetest of your master's sons, and b
set [him] on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
(b) He wrote this, to prove them whether they
would take his side or not.
10:6
Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye [be] mine, and
[if] ye will hearken unto my voice, c
take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by
to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, [being] seventy persons, [were] with
the great men of the city, which brought them up.
(c) God as a just judge punishes the wicked
children of wicked parents to the third and fourth generations.
10:9
And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all
the people, Ye [be] d righteous: behold,
I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
(d) You cannot justly condemn me for the king's
death, seeing as you have done the same to his posterity: for the Lord
commanded me, and moved you to carry out his judgment.
10:11 So Jehu slew
all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and
his kinsfolks, and his e priests, until
he left him none remaining.
(e) Meaning, the idolatrous priests.
10:14
And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit
of the shearing house, [even] two and forty men; f
neither left he any of them.
(f) Thus God's vengeance is on them who have
any part or familiarity with the wicked.
10:15 And when he was departed thence, he
lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he g
saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart [is] with thy
heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give [me] thine hand. And he
gave [him] his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
(g) For he feared God, and lamented the
wickedness of those times: therefore Jehu was glad to join with him: of Rechab
read (Jeremiah
35:2).
10:18
And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served h
Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him much.
(h) Here Baal is taken for Ashtaroth the idol of
the Zidonians, who Jezebel caused to be worshipped, as it is also so used in (1 Kings
22:53).
10:23
And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said
unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none
of the i servants of the LORD, but the
worshippers of Baal only.
(i) Thus God would have his servants preserved
and idolaters destroyed, as in his law he gives express command, (Deuteronomy
13:5).
10:25 And it came to
pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu
said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, [and] slay them; let none come
forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the
captains cast [them] out, and went to the k
city of the house of Baal.
(k) Which was near Samaria.
10:30
And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing [that
which is] right in mine eyes, [and] hast done unto the house of Ahab according
to all that [was] in mine heart, thy l
children of the fourth [generation] shall sit on the throne of Israel.
(l) Thus God approves and rewards his zeal, in
executing God's judgment, though his wickedness was later punished.
Chapter 10:
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