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2 Kings 10
Book of Kings
2 Kings 10:1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote
letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders,
and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,
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Jehu = Hebrew word from 3068 and 1931; God (is)
He; Jehu, the living
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Ahab's children = Ahab's grandsons and
great grandsons
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Rulers = elders
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Of Jezreel = Doubtless they had fled to Samaria,
being in great fear
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Verse 4 = from what Jehu had done in
Jezreel
2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons
are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city
also, and armour;
3 Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him
on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood
not before him: how then shall we stand?
5 And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the
elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying,
We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not
make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.
6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to
them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my
voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come
to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city,
which brought them up.
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Mine = for me
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Bring me the seventy grandson of Ahab
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The men = enosh
7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the
king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets,
and sent him them to Jezreel.
8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought
the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at
the entering in of the gate until the morning.
9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and
said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my
master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of
the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the
LORD hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.
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1 Kings 21:21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy
posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall,
and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and
all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him
none remaining.
12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the
shearing house in the way,
13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who
are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go
down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
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They didn't know, these are dead
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Queen = Jezebel, the queen-mother
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King Joram
14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them
at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left
he any of them.
15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of
Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine
heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It
is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took
him up to him into the chariot.
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1 Chron 2:55 And the families of the scribes
which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the
Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are
the Kenites that came of Hemath, the
father of the house of Rechab.
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Jehonadab = kenites
16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made
him ride in his chariot.
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Notice Jehu didn't say what God did, he said = see
what I done
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See = be eyewitnesses of
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Verses 29-31 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.
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 according to
all that was in mine heart, thy
children of the fourth generation shall sit on
the throne of Israel.
31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the
law of the Lord God of Israel with all his
heart: for he departed not from
the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in
Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD,
which he spake to Elijah.
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Jehu killing all baal worshippers
18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab
served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.
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Jehu saying, get all the baal worshippers
together, because I'm going to kill all of them.
19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his
servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great
sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live.
But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the
worshippers of Baal.
20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they
proclaimed it.
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Proclaim = sanctify, hallow or Solemnise
21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal
came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into
the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to
another.
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Full = so full that they stood mouth to mouth
22 And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments
for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.
23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of
Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there
be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers
of Baal only.
24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu
appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have
brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall
be for the life of him.
25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the
burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in,
and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of
the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the
city of the house of Baal.
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City = Hebrew word = the innermost or most
inaccessible part
26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and
burned them.
27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of
Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
29 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.
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The people of Israel still wouldn't depart from
the golden calves
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1 Kings 12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel,
and made two calves of gold,
and said unto them, It is too much for you to go
up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel,
which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other
put he in Dan.
30 And this thing became a sin: for the people
went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
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
according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth
generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
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Fourth generation = These were Jehoahaz, Joash,
Jeroboam II, and Zachariah.
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Jehu's dynasty was the longest in all Israel.
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2 Kings 15:12 This was the word of the Lord
which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall
sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth
generation. And so it came to pass.
31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel
with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which
made Israel to sin.
32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote
them in all the coasts of Israel;
33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the
Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon,
even Gilead and Bashan.
34 Now 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?
35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And
Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and
eight years.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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