10AHAB HAD seventy [grandsons] in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them from Jezreel to the rulers of Samaria, to the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab's [grandsons], saying,H256H7657H1121H8111H3058H3789H5612H7971H8111H8269H3157H2205H539H256H559 2Now as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master [Joram's] sons are with you and also chariots and horses, a fortified city, and weapons,H5612H935H113H1121H7393H5483H4013H5892H5402 3Select the best and most fit 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 reasoned, The two kings could not stand before [Jehu]; how then can we stand?H3966H3966H3372H559H8147H4428H5975H6440H5975 5And he who was over the household, he who was over the city, the elders also, and the guardians {and} tutors sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants and will do all that you bid us; [but] we will not make any man king; do what is good in your eyes.H1004H5892H2205H539H7971H3058H559H5650H6213H559H376H4427H6213H2896H5869 6Then [Jehu] wrote a second letter to them, saying, If you are with me and will obey me, take the heads of your master [Joram's] sons and come to me at Jezreel by tomorrow this time. Now the [dead] king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing them up.H3789H5612H8145H559H8085H6963H3947H7218H582H113H1121H935H3157H4279H6256H4428H1121H7657H376H1419H5892H1431 7When the letter came to these men, they took the king's sons and slew them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.H5612H935H3947H4428H1121H7819H7657H376H7760H7218H1731H7971H3157 8When a 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 city gate until morning.H935H4397H5046H559H935H7218H4428H1121H559H7760H8147H6652H6607H8179H1242 9The next morning he went out and stood and said to all the people, You are just {and} innocent. Behold, I conspired against my master and slew him, but who smote all these?H1242H3318H5975H559H5971H6662H7194H113H2026H5221 10Know now that nothing which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab shall be unfulfilled {or} ineffective; for the Lord has done what He said through His servant Elijah.H3045H645H5307H776H1697H3068H3068H1696H1004H256H3068H6213H1696H3027H5650H452 11So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.H3058H5221H7604H1004H256H3157H1419H3045H3548H7604H8300 12And he arose and went to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on the way,H6965H935H3212H8111H7462H1004H1044H1870 13Jehu met the kinsmen of Ahaziah king of Judah and said, Who are you? They answered, We are the kinsmen of Ahaziah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of [Jezebel] the queen mother.H3058H4672H251H274H4428H3063H559H559H251H274H3381H7965H1121H4428H1121H1377 14He said, Take them alive. And they did so and slew them at the cistern of the shearing house, forty-two men; he left none of them.H559H8610H2416H8610H2416H7819H953H1044H8147H705H376H7604H376 15When Jehu left there, he met Jehonadab son of Rechab coming to meet him. He saluted him and said to him, Is your heart right, as my heart is with yours? Jehonadab answered, It is. [Jehu said] If it is, give me your hand. He gave him his hand, and Jehu took him up into the chariot.H3212H4672H3082H1121H7394H7125H1288H559H3426H3824H3477H3824H3824H3082H559H3426H5414H3027H5414H3027H5927H4818 16And he said, Come with me and see my zeal for the Lord. So they made [the Rechabite] ride in Jehu's chariot.H559H3212H7200H7068H3068H7392H7393 17When Jehu came to Samaria, he slew all who remained of Ahab's family in Samaria, till he had destroyed them all, according to what the Lord said to Elijah.H935H8111H5221H7604H256H8111H8045H1697H3068H1696H452 18Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.H3058H6908H5971H6908H559H256H5647H1168H4592H3058H5647H7235 19So 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 make to Baal; whoever is missing shall not live. But Jehu did it with trickery, intending to destroy the Baal worshipers.H7121H5030H1168H5647H3548H376H6485H1419H2077H1168H6485H2421H3058H6213H6122H6H5647H1168 20Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.H3058H559H6942H6116H1168H7121 21Jehu sent through all Israel, and all the worshipers of Baal came; not a man failed to come. They went to the house {or} temple of Baal, filling it from one end to the other.H3058H7971H3478H5647H1168H935H376H7604H935H935H1004H1168H1004H1168H4390H6310H6310 22And he said to the man over the vestry, Bring vestments for all the worshipers of Baal. And he brought them vestments.H559H4458H3318H3830H5647H1168H3318H4403 23Then Jehu with Jehonadab son of Rechab went into the house of Baal and said to the worshipers of Baal, Search and see that there are here with you none of the servants of the Lord--but Baal worshipers only.H3058H935H3082H1121H7394H1004H1168H559H5647H1168H2664H7200H3426H5650H3068H5647H1168 24And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed eighty men outside and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he who lets him go shall forfeit his own life for his life.H935H6213H2077H5930H3058H7760H8084H376H2351H559H376H582H935H3027H4422H5315H5315 25As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and to the officers, Go in and slay them; let none escape. And they smote them with the sword; and the guards {or} runners [before the king] and the officers threw their bodies out and went into the inner dwelling of the house of Baal.H3615H6213H5930H3058H559H7323H7991H935H5221H376H3318H5221H6310H2719H7323H7991H7993H3212H5892H1004H1168 26They brought out the pillars {or} obelisks of the house of Baal and burned them.H3318H4676H1004H1168H8313 27They broke down the pillars of Baal and the house of Baal, and made it [forever unclean] a privy to this day.H5422H4676H1168H5422H1004H1168H7760H4163H4280H3117 28Thus Jehu rooted Baal out of Israel.H3058H8045H1168H3478 29But Jehu did not give up the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he made Israel to sin, that is, the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.H2399H3379H1121H5028H3478H2398H3058H5493H310H2091H5695H1008H1835 30And the Lord said to Jehu, Because you have executed well what is right in My eyes and have done to the house of Ahab as I willed, your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on Israel's throne. [Fulfilled in II Kings 15:12.]H3068H559H3058H2895H6213H3477H5869H6213H1004H256H3824H1121H7243H3427H3678H3478 31But Jehu paid no attention to walking in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not quit the sins with which Jeroboam made Israel to sin.H3058H8104H3212H8451H3068H430H3478H3824H5493H2403H3379H3478H2398 32[So] in those days the Lord began to cut off parts of Israel. Hazael [of Syria] defeated them in all the [across the Jordan] territory of IsraelH3117H3068H2490H7096H3478H7096H2371H5221H1366H3478 33From the Jordan east, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, Reubenites, and Manassites, from Aroer which is by the Valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.H3383H4217H8121H776H1568H1425H7206H4520H6177H5158H769H1568H1316 34The 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 35Jehu slept with his fathers. They buried him in Samaria. Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.H3058H7901H1H6912H8111H3059H1121H4427 36The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.H3117H3058H4427H3478H8111H6242H8083H8141
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