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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...
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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 ......
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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
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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...
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FOURTH GENERATION. See 2 Kings 15:12. These were Jehoahaz, Joash,
Jeroboam II, and Zachariah. Jehu's dynasty was the longest in all
Israel....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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(29-36) Jehu’s reign and death....
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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...
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וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל ־יֵה֗וּא
יַ֤עַן אֲשֶׁ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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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...
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THE REIGN OF JEHU...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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
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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...
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1 Kings 20:42; 1 Kings 21:22; 1 Kings 21:29; 1 Samuel 15:18;...
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Done well — In part, and so far as is here expressed....