2 Kings 10:24

_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 SERVANTS OF THE LORD, BUT THE WORSHIPPERS OF BAAL ONLY._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

15-28 Is thine heart right? This is a question we should often put to ourselves. I make a fair profession, have gained a reputation among men, but, is my heart right? Am I sincere with God? Jehonadab owned Jehu in the work, both of revenge and of reformation. An upright heart approves itself to God, and seeks no more than his acceptance; but if we aim at the applause of men, we are upon a false foundation. Whether Jehu looked any further we cannot judge. The law of God was express, that idolaters were to be put to death. Thus idolatry was abolished for the present out of Israel. May we desire that it be rooted out of our hearts....

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 10:1 THE REIGN OF JEHU OVER ISRAEL. 2 KINGS 10:1 The revolution initiated by the destruction of Joram and Jezebel is here traced through its second and its third stages. The immediate question, after Joram's death, was—Would any member of his family rise up as a claimant of the throne, and dispute the succession with Jehu? Ahab had seventy male descendants, all of them resident in Samaria: would there be any one among their number bold enough to come forward and assert his hereditary fight? Jehu regarded this as the most pressing and imminent danger, wherefore his first step was to challenge such action, and either pr

AND WHEN THEY WENT IN TO OFFER SACRIFICES AND BURNT OFFERINGS,.... To Baal, all things being ready for them: JEHU APPOINTED EIGHTY MEN WITHOUT; without the temple of Baal, at the several doors and avenues of it: AND SAID, IF ANY OF THE MEN WHOM I HAVE BROUGHT INTO YOUR HANDS ESCAPE, HE THAT LETTETH HIM GO, HIS LIFE SHALL BE FOR THE LIFE OF HIM; should be put to death for it in his room; the life of a watchman set to guard should go for the life of one that escaped....

2. JEHU'S JUDGMENTS, BAAL-WORSHIP DESTROYED, AND HIS DEATH CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The judgment upon the house of Ahab (2 Kings 10:1)_ 2. The relations of Ahaziah slain (2 Kings 10:12; 2 Chronicles 22:8) 3. Jehonadab spared (2 Kings 10:15) 4. The Baal worship destroyed (2 Kings 10:18) 5. Jehu's record (2 Kings 10:29) 6. Israel cut short ...

DESTRUCTION OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB AND OF THE BAAL WORSHIPPERS. The same source is continued, but 2 Kings 10:28 are from a Deuteronomist. The whole story is one of the most terrible in the OT, Ahab had a large family in Samaria. Jehu with a sort of rude chivalry invited the elders of the city to choose one of them as king, and to fight for the throne. But the cowardly rulers promised submission, and at Jehu's command sent the heads of the seventy sons to Jezreel in baskets (2 Kings 10:7). A further massacre of all Ahab's adherents at Jezreel followed, and of forty-two of the family of Ahaziah, king of Judah (2 Kings 10:13). Jehu next ...

OFFER. prepare. See App-43. LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._...

_And when they went in_ R.V. omits -when", and makes this clause an independent sentence. The LXX. has -and he went in" (καἰ εἰσῆλθε). _Jehu appointed_ In consequence of what has been done in the previous clause, R.V. renders - NOW Jehu HAD appointed". And as there is in the sentence a pronoun and preposition of which the A.V. takes no account, R.V. adds HIM = for himself, after -appointed". If _any of the men whom I_have _brought_ R.V. I BRING. The sentence is very elliptical as will be seen from the italics of A.V. But the same words only are represented in LXX. For the phrase cf. 1 Kings 20:39; 1 Kings 20:42....

D. THE MASSACRE OF THE BAAL WORSHIPERS 10:18-27 TRANSLATION (18) And Jehu gathered all the people, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much. (19) And now call all the prophets of Baal and all his servants and all his priests unto me; let no man be lacking, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Any who is lacking shall not live. But Jehu did this deceitfully in order to destroy the servants of Baal. (20) And Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it. (21) And Jehu sent throughout all Israel, and every servant of Baal came, so that there did not remain a man who did not come. And they came to the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to the other. (22) And he said to the one who was over the vestry, Bring out garments for all the servants of Baal. And he brought forth to them the vestments. (23) And Jehu cam...

JEHU'S EXTERMINATION OF BAAL WORSHIP 1. Ahab.. sons] These were probably his grandchildren rather than his children. UNTO THE RULERS OF JEZREEL] LXX has 'unto the rulers of Samaria,' which the sense requires....