Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
2 Kings 10:8
Two heaps - Probably placed one on either side of the gateway, to strike terror into the partisans of the late dynasty as they passed in and out of the town.
Two heaps - Probably placed one on either side of the gateway, to strike terror into the partisans of the late dynasty as they passed in and out of the town.
Verse 2 Kings 10:8. _LAY YE THEM IN TWO HEAPS_] It appears that the heads of these princes had arrived at Jezreel in the _night time_: Jehu ordered them to be left at the gate of the city, a place of...
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...
_And there came a messenger, and told him_ Josephus (_Ant._IX. 6. 5) adds to the picture, and says that the message was received by Jehu, -While he was at a meal with his friends". _Lay ye them_in _tw...
III. THE AFTERMATH OF THE _COUP_ 10:1-27 In chapter 10 the historian discusses some of the consequences of the revolution of 841 B.C. He discusses the bloody massacre of the house of Omri (2 Kings 10:...
_AND THERE CAME A MESSENGER, AND TOLD HIM, SAYING, THEY HAVE BROUGHT THE HEADS OF THE KING'S SONS. AND HE SAID, LAY YE THEM IN TWO HEAPS AT THE ENTERING IN OF THE GATE UNTIL THE MORNING._ Lay ye them...
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...
THERE CAME A MESSENGER. — Literally, _and the messenger came in_. Josephus says Jehu was giving a banquet. HEAPS. — The noun (_çibbûr_) occurs nowhere else in the Old Testament. In the Talmud it mean...
וַ יָּבֹ֤א הַ מַּלְאָךְ֙ וַ יַּגֶּד ־לֹ֣ו
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...
THE DOOM OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB 2 Kings 10:1 What an iconoclast was this Jehu! Before his strong hand the whole structure of Baal-worship received its death-blow. And as we meet Elijah's name in this c...
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...
_Morning, that all the people might see them. (Calmet) --- Jehu did not choose to admit the Samaritans into the city during the night. (Menochius)_...
While we read in this account how Jehu waded through blood, I pray the reader to keep in view that he acted as the instrument of the Lord. The commission was from heaven. And when we take into the acc...
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...
AND THERE CAME A MESSENGER, AND TOLD HIM, SAYING, THEY HAVE BROUGHT THE HEADS OF THE KING'S SONS,.... Perhaps this messenger to Jehu came from the great men of Samaria themselves, to let him know that...
And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning. Ver. 8. _Lay...
_Lay them at the entering in of the gate_ The place of judicature, to signify that this was an act of God's righteous judgment: and this being the place of public concourse for justice and other busin...
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....
And there came a messenger and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons, of all the male descendants of Ahab, of all the royal princes. AND HE SAID, LAY YE THEM IN TWO HEAPS AT...
THE RELATIVES OF AHAB SLAIN...
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...
1-14 In the most awful events, though attended by the basest crimes of man, the truth and justice of God are to be noticed; and he never did nor can command any thing unjust or unreasonable. Jehu des...
AT THE ENTERING IN OF THE GATE; the place of judicature, to signify that this was an act of justice, and of God's righteous judgment; and the place of greatest concourse, where people went out of the...
2 Kings 10:8 messenger H4397 came H935 (H8799) told H5046 (H8686) saying H559 (H8800) brought H935 ...
THE INITIAL DESTRUCTION OF THE SEVENTY ‘SONS' OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB (2 KINGS 10:1). Very few kings of that time (if any) who replaced another dynasty with their own, would have acted ant differently fr...
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...
_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...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 10:8 TWO HEAPS AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE GATE. Jehu’s aim is to convince the people to make him king. He knows the people STRUCK DOWN ALL THESE, but he also tells them...
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....
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 21:14; 2 Samuel 11:18; Deuteronomy 21:23; Mark 6:28...