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2 Kings 10
Jehu Slaughters Ahab’s Descendants
1Now Ahab had seventy sons in aSamaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city, ▼▼Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew rulers of Jezreel
to the elders, and to cthe guardians of the sons ▼▼Hebrew lacks of the sons
of Ahab, saying, 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, 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.” 4But they were exceedingly afraid and said, “Behold, the two kings could not stand before him. How then can we stand?” 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, e“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.” 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, fwho were bringing them up. 7And as soon as the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons gand slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel. 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.” 9Then in the morning, when he went out, he stood and said to all the people, “You are innocent. hIt was I who conspired against my master and killed him, but who struck down all these? 10Know then that there shall ifall to the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the Lord has done jwhat he said by his servant Elijah.” 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. 12Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds, 13Jehu met kthe 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.” 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. 15And when he departed from there, he met lJehonadab the son of mRechab 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, ▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew lacks Jehu said
“If it is, ogive me your hand.” So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot. 16And he said, “Come with me, and see pmy zeal for the Lord.” So he ▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Targum; Hebrew they
had him ride in his chariot. 17And when he came to Samaria, rhe struck down all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the Lord sthat he spoke to Elijah. Jehu Strikes Down the Prophets of Baal
18Then Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, t“Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much. 19Now therefore call to me all the uprophets 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. 20And Jehu ordered, v“Sanctify wa solemn assembly for Baal.” So xthey proclaimed it. 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 ythe house of Baal, and the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other. 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. 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.” 24Then they ▼▼Septuagint he (compare verse 25)
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 aashall forfeit his life.” 25So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, ab“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, 26and they brought out the acpillar that was in adthe house of Baal and burned it. 27And they demolished the aepillar of Baal, and demolished the house of Baal, and made it afa latrine to this day. Jehu Reigns in Israel
28Thus Jehu wiped out Baal from Israel. 29But Jehu did not turn aside from agthe sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ahwhich he made Israel to sin—that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan. 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, aiyour sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” 31But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart. ajHe did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin. 32In those days the Lord akbegan to cut off parts of Israel. alHazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel: 33from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from amAroer, which is by the Valley of the Arnon, that is, anGilead and Bashan. 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? 35So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place. 36The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
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