Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
2 Kings 10:9
Ye be righteous - i. e., “Ye are just, and can judge aright.” Jehu unfairly keeps back the fact that he had commanded the execution.
Ye be righteous - i. e., “Ye are just, and can judge aright.” Jehu unfairly keeps back the fact that he had commanded the execution.
Verse 2 Kings 10:9. _YE BE RIGHTEOUS_] Another irony, intended partly to excuse himself, and to involve them in the odium of this massacre, and at the same time to justify the conduct of both, by show...
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...
YE BE RIGHTEOUS. Said by way of flattery and to allay disaffection....
_he went out, and stood_ At the gate, the place of concourse, where the people usually gathered, and whither recent events would bring them in full number. Jehu in this way began to play the king. _Ye...
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 IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MORNING, THAT HE WENT OUT, AND STOOD, AND SAID TO ALL THE PEOPLE, YE BE RIGHTEOUS: BEHOLD, I CONSPIRED AGAINST MY MASTER, AND SLEW HIM: BUT WHO SLEW ALL THESE?_ Said to al...
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...
YE _BE_ righteous] Jehu appeals to the people to judge between him and any that might accuse him. The fact that the elders of the city had put Jehoram's sons to death argued that the overthrow of Ahab...
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...
AND STOOD. — Or, _took his place — i.e._ (according to Reuss), sat as judge in the palace gateway, according to royal custom, and gave audience to the people. The citizens would naturally be struck w...
וַ יְהִ֤י בַ † בֹּ֨קֶר֙ וַ יֵּצֵ֣א...
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...
And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye [be] (d) righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these? (d) Yo...
Just executioners of the divine wrath. (Du Hamel) --- You know what is right. (Menochius) --- You are now in the same predicament with myself. (Haydock) --- All the chief men had thus rendered themsel...
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 IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MORNING, THAT HE WENT OUT, AND STOOD, AND SAID TO ALL THE PEOPLE,.... Who were gathered together to this shocking sight, or on the above accounts: YE BE RIGHTEOUS; having h...
And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye [be] righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these? Ver. 9. _A...
_He said to all the people, Ye be righteous_ This is spoken ironically: as much as to say, You may look upon me as a very wicked man, for rebelling against my master and killing him: but look here; se...
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....
THE RELATIVES OF AHAB SLAIN...
And it came to pass in the morning that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous, as just men they could pass a correct judgment; behold, I conspired against my master and s...
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...
TO ALL THE PEOPLE; either, first, To the promiscuous multitude met there to gaze upon this sad and strange spectacle. So the sense is, Be not ye troubled nor affrighted with these unusual and dismal o...
2 Kings 10:9 morning H1242 out H3318 (H8799) stood H5975 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) people H5971 righteous...
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...
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...
_Who slew all these?_ THE WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER I see a long row of baskets coming up towards the palace of king Jehu. I am somewhat inquisitive to find out what is in the baskets. I look in and I find...
_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 Samuel 12:3; 2 Kings 9:14; Hosea 1:4; Isaiah 5:3...