2 Kings 3:2

_AND HE WROUGHT EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD; BUT NOT LIKE HIS FATHER, AND LIKE HIS MOTHER: FOR HE PUT AWAY THE IMAGE OF BAAL THAT HIS FATHER HAD MADE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

1-5 Jehoram took warning by God's judgment, and put away the image of Baal, yet he maintained the worship of the calves. Those do not truly repent or reform, who only part with the sins they lose by, but continue to love the sins that they think to gain by....

Verse 2 Kings 3:2. _HE PUT AWAY THE IMAGE OF BAAL_] He abolished his worship; but he continued that of the _calves_ at Dan and Beth-el....

On the “evil” done by Ahab, see especially 1 Kings 16:30. Jehoram, warned by the fate of his brother (2 Kings 1:4 note), began his reign by a formal abolition of the Phoenician state religion introduced by Ahab - even if he connived at its continuance among the people 2 Kings 10:26; and by a re-establishment of the old worship of the kingdom as arranged by Jeroboam....

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 3:1 THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF JEHORAM'S REIGN OVER ISRAEL; HIS WAR WITH MOAB. 2 KINGS 3:1 NOW JEHORAM THE SON OF AHAB BEGAN TO REIGN OVER ISRAEL IN SAMARIA THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF JEHOSHAPHAT KING OF JUDAH. This note of time is not quite in accordance with the chronology of 1 Kings, which gives Jehoshaphat a reign of twenty-five years (1 Kings 22:42), Ahab one of twenty-two years ...

AND HE WROUGHT EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD,.... Was guilty of idolatry: BUT NOT LIKE HIS FATHER, AND LIKE HIS MOTHER; his father Ahab, and his mother Jezebel: FOR HE PUT AWAY THE IMAGE OF BAAL THAT HIS FATHER HAD MADE; he did not destroy it, only removed it from the temple of Baal where it was set, that it might not be worshipped, at least publicly, see 1 Kings 16:31 this he did, either moved to it by his own conscience, observing the sudden deaths of his father and brother, which he might suppose was for their idolatry; or in order to obtain success in his war with Moab he was entering into; or being instigated by Jehoshaphat to do it, or otherwise he might refuse to join him....

2. JEHORAM, MOAB, AND ELISHA CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Jehoram, King of Israel (2 Kings 3:1)_ 2. Moab's rebellion (2 Kings 3:4) 3. Elisha's message and prediction (2 Kings 3:10) 4. The defeat of Moab (2 Kings 3:21) In chapter 1:17 we read, “And Jehoram reigned in his stead (Ahaziah) in the second year of Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, King of Judah.” (He was associated with his father in the government of the kingdom. See 2 Kings 8:27;...

REIGN OF JEHORAM. WAR WITH MOAB. The only two kings of Israel on whom the censure pronounced is in any way qualified are Jehoram, the last of the house of Omri, and Hoshea (2 Kings 17:2), the last king of Israel. All the others are said to have done evil. The war with Moab is the subject of the famous inscription of Mesha discovered in 1868 (pp. 34, 69). On this Mesha states that Omri occupied the land of Mehedebah (Medeba, Numbers 21:30; Joshua 13:9; Isaiah 15:2) his days, half his son's days, forty years. In Kings it is specially said that Mesha's rebellion was after the death of Ahab. Omri and Ahab together according to Kings reigned on

EVIL. the evil. Hebrew. _ra a._ App-44. HIS MOTHER. Jezebel, who lived through the whole of his reign (2 Kings 9:30). IMAGE. pillar, or statue (which Ahab had made. Compare 2 Kings 10:18). 1 Kings 19:18. Others remained (2 Kings 10:26; 2 Kings 10:27)....

_And he wrought evil_ R.V. AND HE DID THAT WHICH WAS EVIL. The change made frequently that the same Hebrew phrase may be regularly rendered by the same English. _but not like his father, and like his mother_ Jehoram was not so far gone in evil as his brother Ahaziah had been. He kept indeed to the calf-worship of Jeroboam, but put down the Baal-worship which had been introduced by Jezebel from Phœnicia. The writer makes a difference, as might be expected, between the sin of Jeroboam, grievous though that was, and the grosser idolatry which had been practised in the two last reigns. _he put away the image_[R.V. PILLAR] _of Baal_ The Hebrew word [_maççebah_ is first used of the stone (Genesis 28:18) which Jacob set up for a pillar at Bethel, and it seems likely, as it is used here and elsewhere in the accounts of Baal-worship, that these objects of