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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

2 Kings 10:30

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.

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See also 2 Kings 10:30 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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 compen...

  • 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

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

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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 p...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 373 THE CHARACTER OF JEHU 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 accordi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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 T...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    OF THE FOURTH _GENERATION_] see 2 Kings 15:12. The four generations were Jehoahaz, Joash, Jeroboam II, and Zechariah. Jehu's dynasty sat longer than any other on the throne of Israel....

  • 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

    (29-36) Jehu’s reign and death....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND THE LORD SAID. — Perhaps through Elisha. AND HAST DONE. — So the Syriac and Arabic versions. The Hebrew wants the _and_. THY CHILDREN OF THE FOURTH GENERATION. — The fulfilment of this oracle is...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל ־יֵה֗וּא יַ֤עַן אֲשֶׁ

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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 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 (l) chil...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Generation. So Joachaz, Joas, Jeroboam II, and Zacharias, succeeded to the throne. This small temporal reward he obtained for the little good which he had done; while, on the other hand, he was punish...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Jehu had done right in God's eyes in destroying the idols, and his reward was suited to it in temporal mercies to him and his children to the fourth generation. Here is nothing said in all this of any...

  • 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 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 W...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

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

    _The Lord said unto Jehu_ By some prophet. _Because thou hast done well_, &c. That is, in part. The extirpating of idolaters and idolatry was a thing so far right in God's eyes, idolatry being an iniq...

  • 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 the Lord said unto Jehu, most likely by a prophet, 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE REIGN OF JEHU...

  • 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

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE LORD SAID UNTO JEHU; by some prophet, as above, 2 KINGS 9:7. EXECUTING THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN MINE EYES, i.e. in part, and so far as is here expressed, these actions were good and right, though hi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 10:30 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Jehu H3058 well H2895 (H8689) doing H6213 (H8800) right...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 10:30 Since Jehu does not destroy the golden calves in Bethel and Dan (v. 2 Kings 10:29; see v....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • 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 20:42; 1 Kings 21:22; 1 Kings 21:29; 1 Samuel 15:18;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Done well — In part, and so far as is here expressed....

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