2 Kings 10:1-36
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 requires.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 requires.... [ Continue Reading ]
A FENCED CITY] i.e. Samaria. Ahab's dynasty had obtained the throne by force of arms (1 Kings 16:21), and Jehu implied that its supporters must defend it by the same means.... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO KINGS] Jehoram of Israel and Ahaziah of Judah.... [ Continue Reading ]
OVER THE HOUSE.. OVER THE CITY] These officials are also alluded to in 1 Kings 4:5 to 1 Kings 22:26; 2 Kings 18:18; Isaiah 22:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE YE THE HEADS] By slaying the young princes the rulers and elders would be implicated in Jehu's treason and would therefore in self-defence have to support him.... [ Continue Reading ]
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's dynasty was not due solely to Jehu's private ambition but to widespread disaffection against a gu... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORD OF THE LORD] see 1 Kings 21:19; 1 Kings 21:29. Though Ahab had repented of his murder of Naboth, and the chastisement he had incurred was for a time postponed, and though Jehoram seems to have attempted some religious reform (2 Kings 3:2), yet the evil influence of Jezebel had spread widel... [ Continue Reading ]
THE KING.. THE QUEEN] i.e. Joram and Jezebel (the term 'queen' denoting the queenmother).... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PIT] i.e. the tank or pool where the sheep were washed.... [ Continue Reading ]
JEHONADAB] Jehonadab was a Kenite (1 Chronicles 2:55), the tribe of Arabian nomads to which Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, belonged (Judges 1:16). If it be] spoken by Jehu (so the LXX). GIVE _me_ THINE HAND] i.e. as a pledge: cp. Ezra 10:19; Ezekiel 17:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JEHU, etc.] Jehu proceeded to use the same crafty secrecy in the extirpation of Baal worship as he had displayed in destroying Ahab and his house (2 Kings 9:16 f; 2 Kings 10:1.).... [ Continue Reading ]
THE VESTRY] Part of the Temple where the 'changes of raiment,' usually worn on festal occasions, were stored.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE IMAGES] RV 'the pillars': and so in 2 Kings 10:27. They were probably mere columns, not figures of the human form. 27. DRAUGHT HOUSE] equivalent to a dunghill: cp. Ezra 6:11; Daniel 2:5. UNTO THIS DAY] see on 1 Kings 8:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
JEHU TOOK NO HEED.. HEART] Jehu was a worshipper of the LORD (Jehovah), and, in his violent extirpation of the house of Ahab, was doubtless actuated by religious zeal as well as by motives of ambition, whilst his desire to suppress the worship of Baal which had been encouraged by Ahab and Jezebel wa... [ Continue Reading ]
COASTS] i.e. borders. For Hazael's barbarities in Gilead (2 Kings 10:33) see Amos 1:3; Amos 1:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE REST OF THE ACTS OF JEHU] An Assyrian inscription (now in the British Museum) records that Jehu paid tribute to Shalmaneser II. That king in 842 b.c. defeated Hazael the king of Syria; and the injuries that the latter inflicted upon Israel (2 Kings 10:32) would naturally lead Jehu to court the f... [ Continue Reading ]