2 Kings 10

1Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s sons, saying,Cross-references: Deut 16:18 · Judg 8:30 · Judg 10:4 · Judg 12:14 · 1Ki 13:32 · 1Ki 16:24 · +4 more

2“Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor,Cross-references: 2Ki 5:6

3select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”Cross-references: Deut 17:14 · 1Sam 10:24 · 1Sam 11:15 · 2Sam 2:8 · 2Sam 2:12 · 1Ki 1:24 · +2 more

4But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?”Cross-references: 2Ki 9:24 · 2Ki 9:27 · Isa 27:4 · Jer 49:19 · Nah 1:6 · Luke 14:31

5He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes.”Cross-references: Josh 9:8 · Josh 9:11 · Josh 9:24 · 1Ki 20:4 · 1Ki 20:32 · 2Ki 18:14 · +3 more

6Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men who are your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time.” Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.Cross-references: Num 25:4 · Deut 5:9 · Josh 7:24 · 1Ki 21:8 · 2Ki 9:32 · Job 21:19 · +4 more

7When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.Cross-references: Judg 9:5 · 1Ki 21:21 · 2Ki 10:9 · 2Ki 11:1 · 2Chr 21:4 · Matt 14:8

8A 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.”Cross-references: Deut 21:23 · 2Sam 11:18 · 1Ki 21:14 · Mark 6:28

9In the morning, he went out and stood, and said to all the people, “You are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these?Cross-references: 1Sam 12:3 · 2Ki 9:14 · Isa 5:3 · Hos 1:4

10Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of Yahweh’s word, which Yahweh spoke concerning Ahab’s house. For Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.”Cross-references: 1Sam 3:19 · 1Sam 15:29 · 1Ki 21:19 · 1Ki 21:21 · 1Ki 21:29 · 2Ki 9:7 · +4 more

11So Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him no one remaining.Cross-references: Josh 10:30 · Josh 11:8 · 1Ki 14:10 · 1Ki 15:29 · 1Ki 16:11 · 1Ki 18:19 · +12 more

12He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on the way,

13Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, “Who are you?” They answered, “We are the brothers of Ahaziah. We are going down to greet the children of the king and the children of the queen.”Cross-references: 2Ki 8:24 · 2Ki 8:29 · 2Ki 9:21 · 2Chr 21:17 · 2Chr 22:1

14He said, “Take them alive!” They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, even forty-two men. He didn’t leave any of them.Cross-references: 1Ki 20:18 · 2Ki 8:18 · 2Ki 10:6 · 2Ki 10:10 · 2Ki 11:1 · 2Chr 22:8 · +1 more

15When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?” Jehonadab answered, “It is.” “If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.Cross-references: Gen 31:55 · Gen 47:7 · Gen 47:10 · 2Ki 9:21 · 2Ki 10:13 · 1Chr 2:55 · +9 more

16He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh.” So they made him ride in his chariot.Cross-references: Num 23:4 · Num 24:13 · 1Ki 19:10 · 1Ki 19:14 · 1Ki 19:17 · 2Ki 9:7 · +6 more

17When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed them, according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke to Elijah.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:21 · 2Ki 9:8 · 2Ki 9:25 · 2Ki 10:10 · 2Chr 22:8 · Ps 109:8 · +1 more

18Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much.Cross-references: 1Ki 16:31 · 1Ki 18:19 · 1Ki 18:22 · 1Ki 18:40 · 2Ki 3:2 · Job 13:7 · +2 more

19Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent, for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshipers of Baal.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:19 · 1Ki 22:6 · 2Ki 3:13 · 2Ki 10:18 · Job 13:7 · Prov 29:5 · +5 more

20Jehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!” So they proclaimed it.Cross-references: Ex 32:5 · 1Ki 18:19 · 1Ki 21:12 · Joel 1:14

21Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.Cross-references: Judg 16:27 · 1Ki 16:32 · 2Ki 11:18 · Joel 3:2 · Joel 3:11 · Rev 16:16

22He said to him who kept the wardrobe, “Bring out robes for all the worshipers of Baal!” So he brought robes out to them.Cross-references: Ex 28:2 · Matt 22:11

23Jehu went with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that none of the servants of Yahweh are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”Cross-references: Matt 13:30 · Matt 13:41 · Matt 25:32

24So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.”Cross-references: 1Ki 20:30

25As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” So they struck them with the edge of the sword. The guard and the captains threw the bodies out, and went to the inner shrine of the house of Baal.Cross-references: Ex 32:27 · Deut 13:6 · 1Ki 18:40 · Ezek 9:5 · Ezek 22:21 · Rev 16:6

26They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal and burned them.Cross-references: 2Sam 5:21 · 1Ki 14:23 · 2Ki 3:2 · 2Ki 19:18

27They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.Cross-references: Lev 26:30 · Deut 7:5 · Deut 7:25 · 1Ki 16:32 · 2Ki 18:4 · 2Ki 23:7 · +4 more

28Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

29However, Jehu didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin—the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.Cross-references: Gen 20:9 · Ex 32:4 · Ex 32:21 · 1Sam 2:24 · 1Ki 12:28 · 1Ki 13:33 · +15 more

30Yahweh said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done to Ahab’s house according to all that was in my heart, your descendants shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”Cross-references: 1Sam 15:18 · 1Ki 20:42 · 1Ki 21:22 · 1Ki 21:29 · 2Ki 10:35 · 2Ki 13:1 · +5 more

31But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.Cross-references: Deut 4:15 · Deut 4:23 · Deut 5:33 · Deut 10:12 · 1Ki 2:4 · 1Ki 14:16 · +12 more

32In those days Yahweh began to cut away parts of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of IsraelCross-references: 1Ki 19:17 · 2Ki 8:12 · 2Ki 13:22 · 2Ki 13:25 · 2Ki 14:25

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, even Gilead and Bashan.Cross-references: Num 32:33 · Deut 2:36 · Deut 3:12 · Josh 13:9 · Amos 1:3

34Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?Cross-references: 1Ki 11:41 · 1Ki 14:19 · 1Ki 14:29 · 2Ki 12:19 · 2Ki 13:8

35Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:12 · 1Ki 1:21 · 1Ki 2:10 · 1Ki 14:20 · 1Ki 14:31 · 2Ki 13:1 · +1 more

36The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.