2 Kings 10:24-34

24 Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he had said, "¹The one who permits any of the men whom I bring into your hands to escape shall give up his life in exchange."

25 Then it came about, as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the ²guard and to the royal officers, "³Go in, kill them; let none * come out." And they killed them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the royal officers threw them out, and went to the inner room of the house of Baal.

26 They brought out the sacred ⁴pillars of the house of Baal and burned them.

27 They also broke down the sacred pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal, and ⁵made it a latrine to this day.

28 Thus Jehu eradicated Baal out of Israel.

29 However, ⁶as for the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin, from these Jehu did not depart, even the ⁷golden calves that were at Bethel and that were at Dan.

30 The LORD said to Jehu, "Because * you have done well in executing what is right in My eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in My heart, ⁸your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel."

31 But Jehu ⁹was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart; ¹⁰he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel sin.

32 In those days the ¹¹LORD began to cut off portions from Israel; and ¹²Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:

33 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from ¹³Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even ¹⁴Gilead and Bashan.

Jehoahaz Succeeds Jehu

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?

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2 Kings 10:24-34 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 10

This chapter gives a further account of the destruction of the house of Ahab by Jehu, or his orders, even of all his sons and relations, 2Ki 10:1-11, and also of the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, 2Ki 10:12-14, of his taking up Jehonadab the son of Rechab into his chariot, to be a witness of his zeal for the Lord, 2Ki 10:15-17, and of his gathering together the prophets, priests, and worshippers of Baal, and slaying them, 2Ki 10:18-25 and of his extirpation of the idolatry of Baal, 2Ki 10:26-28, nevertheless he continued the worship of the calves, 2Ki 10:29-31 wherefore Israel was distressed by the king of Syria, 2Ki 10:32,33 and the chapter is concluded with the reign and death of Jehu, 2Ki 10:34,35.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 14

1. 1 Kings 20:30-42
2. 1 Samuel 22:17
3. 1 Kings 18:40
4. 1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 3:2
5. Ezra 6:11; Daniel 2:5; Daniel 3:29
6. 1 Kings 12:28-30; 1 Kings 13:33, 34
7. 1 Kings 12:29
8. 2 Kings 15:12
9. Proverbs 4:23
10. 2 Kings 10:29
11. 2 Kings 13:25; 2 Kings 14:25
12. 1 Kings 19:17; 2 Kings 8:12; 2 Kings 13:22
13. Deuteronomy 2:36
14. Amos 1:3-5

Footnotes 9

[a]. Lit "his soul for his soul"
[b]. Lit "runners"
[c]. Lit "smite"
[d]. Lit "smote"
[e]. Lit "runners"
[f]. Lit "city"
[g]. Lit "did not watch"
[h]. Lit "in"
[i]. Lit "smote"