Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
2 Kings 10:29-36
The Reign of Jehu
The Reign of Jehu
To abolish the calf-worship was a thought which had probably never occurred to Jehu. He had religious feeling enough, and patriotism enough, to detest the utterly debasing Astarte worship; but the pur...
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
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...
MADE ISRAEL TO SIN. See note on 1 Kings 14:16. TO WIT. namely. IN DAN. See 1 Kings 12:29; 1 Kings 12:30, and compare...
_who_[R.V. WHEREWITH HE] _made Israel to sin_ See above on 2 Kings 2:3. The same change is to be made in verse 31. _golden calves that_were] From 1 Kings 12:28-29, we see that only _one_image was in...
I. REIGN OF JEHU IN ISRAEL 10:28-36 TRANSLATION (28) So Jehu destroyed Baal in Israel. (29) Only Jehu did not torn from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin, the calves of gol...
_HOWBEIT FROM THE SINS OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, WHO MADE ISRAEL TO SIN, JEHU DEPARTED NOT FROM AFTER THEM, TO WIT, THE GOLDEN CALVES THAT WERE IN BETHEL, AND THAT WERE IN DAN._ HOWBEIT FROM THE S...
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...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 10 THE DEATHS OF 70 *DESCENDANTS OF AHAB V1 There were 70 *descendants of Ahab’s family who lived in Samaria. Jehu wr...
HOWBEIT FROM THE SINS OF JEROBOAM. — Comp. 1 Kings 12:28, _seq_., 1 Kings 15:26; 1 Kings 15:30; 1 Kings 15:34. Jehu maintained the wo
(29-36) Jehu’s reign and death....
רַ֠ק חֲטָאֵ֞י יָרָבְעָ֤ם בֶּן ־נְבָט֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר...
JEHU'S OWN FAILURE 2 Kings 10:25 Jehu was earnest enough in uprooting all traces of Baal-worship, but he permitted the worship of the calves and was careless in the matter of personal religion, 2 Kin...
Here begins the second section of the Book, that which deals with the rapid and fearful corruption of the whole nation. The story alternates between Israel and Judah, and both sections of the nation s...
_Dan. This wicked policy, which was designed to prevent his subjects from submitting again to the kings of Juda, proved his ruin._...
What a sad account is this! Though Jehu had grace to destroy Baal, he had not virtue to resist the golden calves of idolatry. Alas! what is man in his highest attainments! Oh! dearest Lord Jesus, wher...
But of this dreadful work all was not over, for Ahab had seventy sons (2 Kings 10:1-36). It seemed utterly beyond the scope of man's thought that such a family could fall seventy sons. Ahab had sevent...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9 AND 10. In chapter 9 the judgment on Ahab's house commences. He who executes it does not remove, in so doing, the rod which God had lifted up against Israel...
HOWBEIT FROM THE SINS OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, WHO MADE ISRAEL TO SIN,.... Which is the common character given of that king, a blot never to be wiped off: JEHU DEPARTED NOT FROM AFTER THEM, TO W...
Howbeit [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to wit], the golden calves that [were] in Bethel, and that [were] in Dan. Ver. 29. Ho...
_Jehu departed not from them_ He was partial in his reformation, and did not put away all the evil, because his heart was not right with God. He departed from the sins of Ahab, but not from the sins o...
1 Iehu by his letters causeth seuentie of Ahabs children to be beheaded. 8 He excuseth the facte by the prophecie of Elijah. 12 At the shearing house he slayeth two and fourtie of Ahaziahs brethren....
AHAB'S SONS KILLED (vv.1-11) Ahab had 70 sons in Samaria and Jehu was purposed to put them to death also. He chose the method of demanding by letter that the rulers and elders of Israel should choos...
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 conversi...
JEHU DEPARTED NOT FROM AFTER THEM: herein he discovers his hypocrisy, that he follows God as far as his interest would permit; namely, in destroying the house of Ahab, and the worship of Baal, but no...
2 Kings 10:29 Jehu H3058 away H5493 (H8804) H310 sins H2399 Jeroboam H3379 son H1121 Nebat H5028 Israel...
A SUMMARY OF THE REIGN OF JEHU (841-814/13 BC) AND OF HIS FAILURE TO RESPOND TO YHWH'S COVENANT (2 KINGS 10:29). While Jehu had certainly removed the worship of the Phoenician Baal (Baal Melqart) from...
CONTENTS: Judgment on house of Ahab. Princes of Judah slain. Baal worship put out. Jehu's reign and death. CHARACTERS: God, Jehu, Jehonadab, Hazael. CONCLUSION: God is not the author of any man's si...
2 Kings 10:1. _Seventy sons,_ whose end was destruction, like the sons of Gideon, of Saul, and of David. The sure way to build up a house is equity, not polygamy. _Jehu wrote letters._ God gave him a...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 10:29 DID NOT TURN ASIDE FROM THE SINS OF JEROBOAM. Jehu has dealt with Baal worship, but he does nothing at all about the GOLDEN CALVES... IN BETHEL AND IN DAN that Jeroboam i...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 10:29. THE GOLDEN CALVES THAT WERE IN BETHEL—Political reasons led to the origin of calf-worship (1 Kings 12:28), and doubtless for political reasons Jehu con...
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 tra
Now Ahab who was the husband of this wicked woman Jezebel, who himself was extremely wicked, had seventy sons. Evidently Jezebel wasn't his only wife. Now these sons had grown up in Samaria and in Jez...
1 Corinthians 8:9; 1 Kings 12:28; 1 Kings 12:29; 1 Kings 13:33;...
Jehu departed not — So that it is plain, his religion was but superficial: otherwise it would not have given way to his policy....