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2 Kings 10:18-27

2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 Kings 10:18 Jehu assembled all the people. Jehu now gives his attention to Samaria, which had been the focal point for the Baal cult (see 1 Kings 16:32). He assembled all the prophets and worshipers of Baal by pretending that he himself wanted to worship their false god. Once every single worshiper had come together, Jehu killed them all.

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See also 2 Kings 10:18-27 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 10:18. _AHAB SERVED BAAL A LITTLE_] Jehu had determined to have no worship in Israel but that of the golden calves at Dan and Bethel; therefore he purposes to destroy all the worshippers...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Though we cannot ascribe to Jehu a spirit of true piety (see 2 Kings 10:29), we can well enough understand how the soldier, trained in the Syrian wars, revolted against the unmanly and voluptuous wors...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehu by subtilty destroys the worshippers of Baal and the house of Baal. He walks in the ways of Jeroboam (Not in Chronicles) 18. _Ahab served Baal a little_ Hitherto Jehu's action had been directed o...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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 p...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND WHEN HE CAME TO SAMARIA, HE SLEW ALL THAT REMAINED UNTO AHAB IN SAMARIA, TILL HE HAD DESTROYED HIM, ACCORDING TO THE SAYING OF THE LORD, WHICH HE SPAKE TO ELIJAH._ No JFB commentary on these ver...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AND JEHU, etc.] Jehu proceeded to use the same crafty secrecy in the extirpation of Baal worship as he had displayed in destroying Ahab and his house (2 Kings 9:16 f; 2 Kings 10:1.)....

  • 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

    AHAB SERVED BAAL A LITTLE; BUT JEHU SHALL SERVE HIM MUCH. — Ahab had, as the people well knew, served Baal more than a little; but the antithesis was not too strong for Jehu’s hidden meaning. He was t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּקְבֹּ֤ץ יֵהוּא֙ אֶת ־כָּל ־הָ עָ֔ם

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served (h) Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him much. (h) Here Baal is taken for Ashtaroth the idol of the Zidonians, who Jeze...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    I will worship him more. Jehu sinned in thus pretending to worship Baal, and causing sacrifices to be offered to him: because evil in not to be done, that good may come of it, Romans iii. 8. (Challone...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Jehu, as the Lord's minister in the destruction of idols, is graciously upheld in this service. And, hence all the worshippers of Baal were blinded to their own destruction. But, Reader! do observe, f...

  • 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...

  • 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 JEHU GATHERED ALL THE PEOPLE TOGETHER,.... The people of Samaria, at least the principal of them: AND SAID UNTO THEM, AHAB SERVED BAAL A LITTLE, [BUT] JEHU SHALL SERVE HIM MUCH; which some unders...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him much. Ver. 18. _But Jehu shall serve him much._] This he spake, that he might the...

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

    _Jehu gathered all the people together_ By their representatives, their elders, or rulers, as was usual, to whom he imparts his mind, and who, being generally corrupt, and mere time-servers, and such...

  • 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 Jehu gathered all the people together and said unto them, hiding his real purpose under a pretense of zeal for idolatrous worship, AHAB SERVED BAAL A LITTLE, BUT JEHU SHALL SERVE HIM MUCH, this st...

  • 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

    JEHU GATHERED ALL THE PEOPLE TOGETHER; by their representatives, their elders or rulers, as was usual; to whom he imparts his mind; and they being generally corrupt, and timeservers, and such as had n...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 10:18 Jehu H3058 gathered H6908 people H5971 together H6908 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) Ahab H256 served...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SLAUGHTER OF ALL THE SPECIFIC WORSHIPPERS OF BAAL IN SAMARIA (2 KINGS 10:18). That Jehu went far beyond what YHWH had required comes out here. Not satisfied with a thorough purge in Samaria, Jehu...

  • 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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 10:19. BUT JEHU DID IT IN SUBTILTY—His subterfuge for the destruction of Baal’s priests and votaries must not be regarded as proof of Jehu’s attachment and loy...

  • 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 16:31; 1 Kings 16:32; 1 Kings 18:19; 1 Kings 18:22; 1

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Jehu said — The words being manifestly false, and spoken with a design to deceive, cannot be excused, this being an unmovable principle, That we must not do the least evil, that the greatest good may...

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