2Kings 10:1 - Prayer Tents

10Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying,H256H7657H1121H8111H3058H3789H5612H7971H8111H8269H3157H2205H539H256H559 2"Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons,H5612H935H113H1121H7393H5483H4013H5892H5402 3select the best and fittest of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne and fight for your master's house."H7200H2896H3477H113H1121H7760H1H3678H3898H113H1004 4But they were exceedingly afraid and said, "Behold, the two kings could not stand before him. How then can we stand?"H3966H3966H3372H559H8147H4428H5975H6440H5975 5So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and we will do all that you tell us. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your eyes."H1004H5892H2205H539H7971H3058H559H5650H6213H559H376H4427H6213H2896H5869 6Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, "If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master's sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time." Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing them up.H3789H5612H8145H559H8085H6963H3947H7218H582H113H1121H935H3157H4279H6256H4428H1121H7657H376H1419H5892H1431 7And as soon as the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.H5612H935H3947H4428H1121H7819H7657H376H7760H7218H1731H7971H3157 8When the messenger came and told him, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons," he said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning."H935H4397H5046H559H935H7218H4428H1121H559H7760H8147H6652H6607H8179H1242 9Then in the morning, when he went out, he stood and said to all the people, "You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him, but who struck down all these?H1242H3318H5975H559H5971H6662H7194H113H2026H5221 10Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the LORD has done what he said by his servant Elijah."H3045H645H5307H776H1697H3068H3068H1696H1004H256H3068H6213H1696H3027H5650H452 11So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining.H3058H5221H7604H1004H256H3157H1419H3045H3548H7604H8300 12Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,H6965H935H3212H8111H7462H1004H1044H1870 13Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, "Who are you?" And they answered, "We are the relatives of Ahaziah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother."H3058H4672H251H274H4428H3063H559H559H251H274H3381H7965H1121H4428H1121H1377 14He said, "Take them alive." And they took them alive and slaughtered them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two persons, and he spared none of them.H559H8610H2416H8610H2416H7819H953H1044H8147H705H376H7604H376 15And when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. And he greeted him and said to him, "Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?" And Jehonadab answered, "It is." Jehu said, "If it is, give me your hand." So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.H3212H4672H3082H1121H7394H7125H1288H559H3426H3824H3477H3824H3824H3082H559H3426H5414H3027H5414H3027H5927H4818 16And he said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD." So he had him ride in his chariot.H559H3212H7200H7068H3068H7392H7393 17And when he came to Samaria, he struck down all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke to Elijah.H935H8111H5221H7604H256H8111H8045H1697H3068H1696H452 18Then Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much.H3058H6908H5971H6908H559H256H5647H1168H4592H3058H5647H7235 19Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests. Let none be missing, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal. Whoever is missing shall not live." But Jehu did it with cunning in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal.H7121H5030H1168H5647H3548H376H6485H1419H2077H1168H6485H2421H3058H6213H6122H6H5647H1168 20And Jehu ordered, "Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal." So they proclaimed it.H3058H559H6942H6116H1168H7121 21And Jehu sent throughout all Israel, and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they entered the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other.H3058H7971H3478H5647H1168H935H376H7604H935H935H1004H1168H1004H1168H4390H6310H6310 22He said to him who was in charge of the wardrobe, "Bring out the vestments for all the worshipers of Baal." So he brought out the vestments for them.H559H4458H3318H3830H5647H1168H3318H4403 23Then Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab, and he said to the worshipers of Baal, "Search, and see that there is no servant of the LORD here among you, but only the worshipers of Baal."H3058H935H3082H1121H7394H1004H1168H559H5647H1168H2664H7200H3426H5650H3068H5647H1168 24Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and said, "The man who allows any of those whom I give into your hands to escape shall forfeit his life."H935H6213H2077H5930H3058H7760H8084H376H2351H559H376H582H935H3027H4422H5315H5315 25So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, "Go in and strike them down; let not a man escape." So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal,H3615H6213H5930H3058H559H7323H7991H935H5221H376H3318H5221H6310H2719H7323H7991H7993H3212H5892H1004H1168 26and they brought out the pillar that was in the house of Baal and burned it.H3318H4676H1004H1168H8313 27And they demolished the pillar of Baal, and demolished the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.H5422H4676H1168H5422H1004H1168H7760H4163H4280H3117 28Thus Jehu wiped out Baal from Israel.H3058H8045H1168H3478 29But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin—that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.H2399H3379H1121H5028H3478H2398H3058H5493H310H2091H5695H1008H1835 30And the LORD said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel."H3068H559H3058H2895H6213H3477H5869H6213H1004H256H3824H1121H7243H3427H3678H3478 31But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.H3058H8104H3212H8451H3068H430H3478H3824H5493H2403H3379H3478H2398 32In those days the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel. Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:H3117H3068H2490H7096H3478H7096H2371H5221H1366H3478 33from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the Valley of the Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan.H3383H4217H8121H776H1568H1425H7206H4520H6177H5158H769H1568H1316 34Now the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?H3499H1697H3058H6213H1369H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H3478 35So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.H3058H7901H1H6912H8111H3059H1121H4427 36The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.H3117H3058H4427H3478H8111H6242H8083H8141