Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
2 Kings 10:32
To cut Israel short - literally, “to cut off in Israel,” i. e., to take away from Israel portions of its territory (see the marginal reference).
To cut Israel short - literally, “to cut off in Israel,” i. e., to take away from Israel portions of its territory (see the marginal reference).
Verse 32. _THE LORD BEGAN TO CUT ISRAEL SHORT_] The _marginal_ reading is best: _The Lord cut off the ends_; and this he did by permitting Hazael to seize on the _coasts_, to conquer and occupy the _...
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...
TO CUT ISRAEL SHORT: or, to cut off the outskirts, or make inroads into. COASTS. borders....
Cutting short of Israel. Jehu's death, his successor and the duration of his reign (Not in Chronicles) 32. _to cut Israel short_ Literally -to cut off _in_Israel". The meaning is -to give over some pa...
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...
_IN THOSE DAYS THE LORD BEGAN TO CUT ISRAEL SHORT: AND HAZAEL SMOTE THEM IN ALL THE COASTS OF ISRAEL;_ In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short. The national calamities to which allusion is m...
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...
COASTS] i.e. borders. For Hazael's barbarities in Gilead (2 Kings 10:33) see Amos 1:3; Amos 1:4....
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...
IN THOSE DAYS. — As a vassal and ally of Assyria (see Notes on 2 Kings 9:2), Jehu drew upon himself the active hostility of Hazael. (See Note on 2 Kings 8:15.) Schröder remarks that it was quite natur...
(29-36) Jehu’s reign and death....
בַּ † יָּמִ֣ים הָ הֵ֔ם הֵחֵ֣ל יְהוָ֔ה...
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...
_Weary. Hebrew, "to retrench or destroy." Hazael took occasion, from the absence of Jehu (Calmet) from Galaad, and the disturbances on the west of the Jordan, to dismember the provinces on the east, a...
Here begins the melancholy history of Israel, leading to the Babylonish captivity. For though it was more than 300 years before that event took place, yet Israel's glory from this time began to grow d...
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...
IN THOSE DAYS THE LORD BEGAN TO CUT ISRAEL SHORT,.... To bring their dominions into a narrower compass; this was done in the days of Jehu, though he was so active and courageous, wherefore the hand of...
In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel; Ver. 32. _The Lord began to cut Israel short._] By turning in the Syrians upon them, to waste thei...
_In those days_ In the time of Jehu's life and reign, 2 Kings 10:34. _The Lord began to cut Israel short_ Either to diminish the number of the people by cutting them off, or to straiten their borders....
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....
In those days, in consequence of the prevalent idolatry, THE LORD BEGAN TO CUT ISRAEL SHORT, to cut off parts, by permitting hostile nations to take possession of remote districts. AND HAZAEL SMOTE TH...
THE REIGN OF JEHU...
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...
TO CUT: _ Heb._ to cut off the ends...
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...
IN THOSE DAYS; in the time of Jehu's life and reign, as may be gathered by comparing 2 KINGS 10:31. TO CUT ISRAEL SHORT; either to diminish the number of the people, by cutting them off; or to straite...
2 Kings 10:32 days H3117 LORD H3068 began H2490 (H8689) off H7096 (H8763) Israel H3478 Hazael H2371 conquered...
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 10:32 THE LORD BEGAN TO CUT OFF PARTS OF ISRAEL. 1 Kings 19:15 pointed to a time when God’s judgment woul
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 Kings 19:17; 2 Kings 13:22; 2 Kings 8:12...