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2 Kings 10:16

see my zeal for the Lord This was the boast of a man who did not know his own heart. He had some zeal and manifested it in the destruction of Baal, but stopped short at the suppression of the calves in Dan and Bethel. Josephus makes Jehu invite Jonadab to be witness -how he will spare no wicked man, but will destroy both the false prophets and the false priests and those who lead the multitude astray so that they leave the worship of the Most High, and adore strange gods: for it is a most honest and pleasing sight for a good and righteous man to see the wicked being punished".

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 10:16. _COME WITH ME, AND SEE MY ZEAL FOR THE LORD._] O thou ostentatious and murderous hypocrite! Thou have zeal for Jehovah and his pure religion! Witness thy calves at Dan and Bethel,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SEE. be eyewitnesses of. ZEAL FOR THE LORD. Not pure. See verses: 2 Kings 10:29....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 372 TRUE AND FALSE ZEAL 2 Kings 10:16. _Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord._ UNGODLY men, though they will not follow the example of the godly, are glad to have their sanction and...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. JEHU AND JEHONADAB 10:15-17 TRANSLATION (15) And he departed from there, and found Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he blessed him, and said unto him, Is your heart right as my...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND HE SAID, COME WITH ME, AND SEE MY ZEAL FOR THE LORD. SO THEY MADE HIM RIDE IN HIS CHARIOT._ He said, Come ... and see my zeal for the Lord. It was Jehu's policy, by extirpating the Baal idolatry...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SEE. — Rather, _look on at_. MY ZEAL FOR THE LORD. — Jehu addresses Jehonadab as a notoriously staunch adherent of the old faith. THEY MADE HIM RIDE. — The Syriac, LXX., and Arabic read, “he made hi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ לְכָ֣ה אִתִּ֔י וּ רְאֵ֖ה בְּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    JEHU ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE 2 Kings 10:1 B.C. 842-814 "The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose." - SHAKESPEARE. BUT the work of Jehu was not yet over. He was established at Jezreel: he wa...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    FRESH MURDERS-THE EXTIRPATION OF BAALWORSHIP 2 Kings 10:12 B.C. 842 " _ Jehu, sur les hauts lieux, enfin osant offrir_ Un temeraire encens que Dieu ne peut souffrir, N'a pour servir sa cause et v...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WIPING OUT BAAL-WORSHIP 2 Kings 10:12 For the well-being of the race it is sometimes necessary to cut off evil-doers, lest they spread such a contagion of evil as to involve the whole body politic. T...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Poor Jehu did not, it is plain, know the real motives of his heart when he said this; for the Holy Ghost tells us in 2 Kings 10:29, that Jehu himself was an idolator. Reader! oh! that the blessed Spir...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _A GOOD LESSON FROM A BAD KING_ ‘See my zeal for the Lord.’ 2 Kings 10:16 I. THE ZEAL OF JEHU! HOW BADLY OUR OWN EFFORTS AFTER SOCIAL OR PERSONAL RIGHTEOUSNESS COMPARE WITH IT!—Put over against it...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE SAID, COME WITH ME, AND SEE MY ZEAL FOR THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... In destroying idolaters and idolatry, with an intent to do which he was going to Samaria; this seems to savour very much of vain g...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot. Ver. 16. _Come with me, and see my zeal._] It is good policy to join friendship with the religious: as h...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He lighted on Jehonadab_ A Kenite, (1 Chronicles 2:55,) and a man of singular prudence and piety, as appears from this history, and from Jeremiah 35:6; from him descended the race of the Rechabites....

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And he, Jehu, SAID, COME WITH ME AND SEE MY ZEAL FOR THE LORD. SO THEY MADE HIM RIDE IN HIS CHARIOT, not by force, of course, but by friendly persuasion and invitation....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Baal-Worship Discontinued....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MY ZEAL FOR THE LORD, i.e. for the vindication of his honour and quarrel, and for the execution of his commands. Do not believe my words, but mine actions, which thine eyes shall behold. THEY, i.e. Je...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 10:16 said H559 (H8799) Come H3212 (H8798) see H7200 (H8798) zeal H7068 LORD H3068 ride...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CONTINUING PURGE OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB (2 KINGS 10:9). Had Jehu stopped there no blame would have been laid at his door. All would have recognised that he had done what was inevitable. But as can s...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    2 Kings 10:16 Jehu, the founder of the fifth dynasty of the kings of Israel, interests us partly by his career and achievements, but much more by the problem of his character. His first achievement w...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord._ THE NATURE OF CHRISTIAN ZEAL Truly it is delightful and instructive to see any creature exhibiting the proofs of an ardent zeal for the glory, of the gre...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Jehu wrote letters and sent to Samaria._ JEHU Jehu. He did not rest until he had destroyed the house of Ahab and the worship of Baal. There are many Jehus to-day and there is much Jehuism: religion...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE FALL OF BAAL CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 10:1. SEVENTY SONS—_i.e., descendants_, sons grandsons, &c. THE RULERS OF JEZREEL—“Jezreel” has no authoritative place in the text. The LXX....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 19:14; 1 Kings 19:17; 2 Kings 10:31; 2 Kin

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