2 Kings 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 CHILDREN OF THE FOURTH GENERATION SHALL SIT ON THE THRONE OF ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

29-36 It is justly questionable whether Jehu acted from a good principle, and whether he did not take some false steps in doing it; yet no services done for God shall go unrewarded. But true conversion is not only from gross sin, but from all sin; not only from false gods, but from false worships. True conversion is not only from wasteful sins, but from gainful sins; not only from sins which hurt our worldly interests, but from those that support and befriend them; in forsaking which is the great trial whether we can deny ourselves and trust God. Jehu showed great care and zeal for rooting out a false religion, but in the true religion he cared not, took no heed to please God and do his duty. Those that are heedless, it is to be feared, are graceless. The people were also careless, therefore it is not strange that in those days the Lord began to cut Israel short. They were short in their...

Verse 30. _THY CHILDREN OF THE FOURTH GENERATION_] These four descendants of Jehu were _Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Jeroboam_ the second, and _Zechariah_; see 2 Kings 14 and 2 Kings 15. This was all the compensation Jehu had in either world, as a recompense of _his zeal_ _for the Lord_....

AND THE LORD SAID UNTO JEHU - Probably by the mouth of Elisha. To a certain extent Jehu’s measures were acts of obedience, for which God might see fit to assign him a temporal reward. THY CHILDREN ... - This was accomplished in the persons of Jehoahaz, Joash, Jeroboam, and Zachariah, the son, grandson, great-grandson, and great-great-grandson of Jehu (compare the marginal references). No other family sat upon the throne of Israel so long. The house of Omri, which furnished four kings, held the crown for three generations only and for less than 50 years - that of Jehu reigned for five generations and for more than 100 years....

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 THE LORD SAID UNTO JEHU,.... By a prophet, he not being one himself; and this is generally supposed, by the Jews w, to be Jonah the son of Amittai: BECAUSE THOU HAST DONE WELL IN EXECUTING THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN MINE EYES: in rooting out the idolatry of Baal, which was right in the sight of God, and was materially a good work, though it might not be done from a good principle, nor every step taken in doing it justifiable: AND HAST DONE UNTO THE HOUSE OF AHAB ACCORDING TO ALL THAT WAS IN MINE HEART: that he had decreed within himself should be done, and had foretold by his prophets would be done, the doing of which was acceptable and well pleasing to him: THY CHILDREN OF THE FOURTH GENERATION SHALL SIT ON THE THRONE OF ISRAEL; as they did, namely, Jehoahaz, Joash, Jeroboam, and Zachariah, though the last reigned but six months, just enough to fulfil this promise. w Seder Olam Rabb...

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 ...

FOURTH GENERATION. See 2 Kings 15:12. These were Jehoahaz, Joash, Jeroboam II, and Zachariah. Jehu's dynasty was the longest in all Israel....

_Because thou hast done well_ i.e. To a certain extent. When David strives to do God's will perfectly with a true heart, the promise is that -he shall not be without a lamp before God for ever". The partial obedience of Jehu obtains the gift of a succession for four generations. _thy children_[R.V. SONS] _of the fourth_generation] For the fulfilment see chap. 2 Kings 15:12. The son of Jehu was Jehoahaz who was succeeded by his son Joash, and he by Jeroboam II, with whose son Zechariah the fourth generation and the sovereignty of Jehu's family terminated....