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To abolish the calf-worship was a thought which had probably never
occurred to Jehu. He had religious feeling enough, and patriotism
enough, to detest the utterly debasing Astarte worship; but the pur...
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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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MADE ISRAEL TO SIN. See note on 1 Kings 14:16.
TO WIT. namely.
IN DAN. See 1 Kings 12:29; 1 Kings 12:30, and compare...
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_who_[R.V. WHEREWITH HE] _made Israel to sin_ See above on 2 Kings
2:3. The same change is to be made in verse 31.
_golden calves that_were] From 1 Kings 12:28-29, we see that only
_one_image was in...
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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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_HOWBEIT FROM THE SINS OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, WHO MADE ISRAEL
TO SIN, JEHU DEPARTED NOT FROM AFTER THEM, TO WIT, THE GOLDEN CALVES
THAT WERE IN BETHEL, AND THAT WERE IN DAN._ HOWBEIT FROM THE S...
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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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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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רַ֠ק חֲטָאֵ֞י יָרָבְעָ֤ם בֶּן ־נְבָט֙
אֲשֶׁ֣ר...
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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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_Dan. This wicked policy, which was designed to prevent his subjects
from submitting again to the kings of Juda, proved his ruin._...
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What a sad account is this! Though Jehu had grace to destroy Baal, he
had not virtue to resist the golden calves of idolatry. Alas! what is
man in his highest attainments! Oh! dearest Lord Jesus, wher...
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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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HOWBEIT FROM THE SINS OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, WHO MADE ISRAEL TO
SIN,.... Which is the common character given of that king, a blot
never to be wiped off:
JEHU DEPARTED NOT FROM AFTER THEM, TO W...
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Howbeit [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel
to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to wit], the golden calves
that [were] in Bethel, and that [were] in Dan.
Ver. 29. Ho...
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_Jehu departed not from them_ He was partial in his reformation, and
did not put away all the evil, because his heart was not right with
God. He departed from the sins of Ahab, but not from the sins o...
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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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THE REIGN OF JEHU...
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Howbeit, in spite of this excellent showing, FROM THE SINS OF
JEROBOAM, THE SON OF NEBAT, WHO MADE ISRAEL TO SIN, JEHU DEPARTED NOT
FROM AFTER THEM, TO WIT, THE GOLDEN CALVES THAT WERE IN BETHEL AND
T...
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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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JEHU DEPARTED NOT FROM AFTER THEM: herein he discovers his hypocrisy,
that he follows God as far as his interest would permit; namely, in
destroying the house of Ahab, and the worship of Baal, but no...
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2 Kings 10:29 Jehu H3058 away H5493 (H8804) H310 sins H2399 Jeroboam
H3379 son H1121 Nebat H5028 Israel...
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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 10:29 DID NOT TURN ASIDE FROM THE SINS OF
JEROBOAM. Jehu has dealt with Baal worship, but he does nothing at all
about the GOLDEN CALVES... IN BETHEL AND IN DAN that Jeroboam
i...
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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 Corinthians 8:9; 1 Kings 12:28; 1 Kings 12:29; 1 Kings 13:33;...
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Jehu departed not — So that it is plain, his religion was but
superficial: otherwise it would not have given way to his policy....