2 Kings 10:25 end H3615 (H8763) offering H6213 (H8800) offering H5930 Jehu H3058 said H559 (H8799) guard H7323 (H8801) captains H7991 in H935 (H8798) kill H5221 (H8685) one H376 out H3318 (H8799) killed H5221 (H8686) edge H6310 sword H2719 guards H7323 (H8801) officers H7991 out H7993 (H8686) went H3212 (H8799) room H5892 temple H1004 Baal H1168
Go in - Exodus 32:27; Deuteronomy 13:6-11; Ezekiel 9:5-7
Verse 2 Kings 10:25. _AS SOON AS HE HAD MADE AN END OF OFFERING_] Had Jehu been a man of any conscientious principle in religion, he would have finished the tragedy before he offered the _burnt-offeri...
AS SOON AS HE HAD MADE AN END OF OFFERING - The actual sacrificers were no doubt the priests of Baal; but Jehu is considered to have made the offering, since he furnished the victims. Compare 1 Kings...
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...
THE CITY. Hebrew. _'lr,_ the innermost or most inaccessible part, whether of. city (= the citadel) or. house (as here)....
_as soon as he had made an end of offering_ That is, when the priests had completed the offering. We are not to suppose that Jehu himself acted as priest on the occasion, only as he had been the convo...
AND THE CAPTAINS CAST THEM OUT— _And the captains were dismissed._ Houbigant. REFLECTIONS.—Jehu with indefatigable diligence pursues his blow; and as he drives to Samaria, 1. He meets Jehonadab the s...
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...
_AND JEHU WENT, AND JEHONADAB THE SON OF RECHAB, INTO THE HOUSE OF BAAL, AND SAID UNTO THE WORSHIPPERS OF BAAL, SEARCH, AND LOOK THAT THERE BE HERE WITH YOU NONE OF THE SERVANTS OF THE LORD, BUT THE W...
10:25 city (c-58) Others, 'buildings' or 'citadel' of Baal....
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...
TO THE CITY OF THE HOUSE OF BAAL] This seems unintelligible, and the word 'city' is probably a corruption of the word 'oracle' (see 1 Kings 6:5), the Hebrew being somewhat similar....
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...
AS SOON AS HE HAD MADE AN END. — The Syriac has, _when they_ (_i.e._, the Baal priests) _had made an end_. This is probably right. (Comp. the beginning of 2 Kings 10:24). We can hardly suppose with Ew...
וַ יְהִ֞י כְּ כַלֹּתֹ֣ו ׀ לַ עֲשֹׂ֣ות הָ
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...
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...
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, [and] slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them wit...
_Soldiers. Hebrew, "runners, (or foot-guards, 3 Kings i. 5,) and chief officers," Exodus xiv. 7. --- Out. Hebrew, "cast out" their carcasses, or "rushed out (themselves) into the city," which was styl...
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...
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, AS SOON AS HE HAD MADE AN END OF OFFERING THE BURNT OFFERING,.... The chief of the priests of Baal, whose office it was to do this service: THAT JEHU SAID TO THE GUARD, AND TO TH...
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, [and] slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them wit...
_When they went in to offer sacrifices_ When some went to the altar to offer in the name of the rest. _Jehu appointed fourscore men without_ Far more being, doubtless, in readiness to assist them in c...
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 it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, when the preparations for the customary sacrifices were completed, THAT JEHU SAID TO THE GUARD AND TO THE CAPTAINS, G...
The Baal-Worship Discontinued....
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...
EDGE: _ Heb._ the mouth...
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...
AS SOON AS HE, i.e. the chief priest of Baal: see 2 CHRONICLES 23:17. MADE AN END OF OFFERING THE BURNT-OFFERINGS; so far he suffered them to proceed; either because till then they were not all come i...
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...
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 10:18 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
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 13:6; Exodus 32:27; Ezekiel 22:21; Ezekiel 22:22;...
City — To some buildings belonging to this house of Baal, which may be here called the city; because they were very numerous and capacious. For as there were divers chambers and rooms built without th...