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,
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;
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.
Look even
Deuteronomy 17:14,15 When you are come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, …
1 Samuel 10:24 And Samuel said to all the people, See you him whom the LORD has …
1 Samuel 11:15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king …
2 Samuel 2:8,9 But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth …
1 Kings 1:24,25 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, have you said, Adonijah shall reign …
1 Kings 12:20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come …
fight for
2 Samuel 2:12-17 And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son …
1 Kings 12:21 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house …
John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were …
But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
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.
We are thy servants
2 Kings 18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, …
Joshua 9:11,24,25 Why our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, …
1 Kings 20:4,32 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according …
Jeremiah 27:7,8,17 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, …
John 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall …
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.
If ye be mine [heb] if ye be for me
2 Kings 9:32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? …
Matthew 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with …
Luke 9:50 And Jesus said to him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.
take ye
Numbers 25:4 And the LORD said to Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and …
1 Kings 21:8-11 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal…
your master's sons
Deuteronomy 5:9 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the …
Joshua 7:24,25 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, …
Job 21:19 God lays up his iniquity for his children: he rewards him, and he shall know it.
Isaiah 14:21,22 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; …
Revelation 2:20-23 Notwithstanding I have a few things against you, because you suffer …
which brought them up. `The rich,' says mr.Morier, `hire a dedeh, or wet nurse for their children. If a boy, the father appoints a steady man from the age of two years to be his laleh, who, I conjecture, must stand in the same capacity as the bringers up of children mentioned in the catastrophe of Ahab's sons. But if it be a daughter, she has a {gees sefeed} or white head, attached to her for the same purpose as the {laleh}.'
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.
slew seventy
2 Kings 10:9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, …
2 Kings 11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, …
Judges 9:5 And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brothers …
1 Kings 21:21 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will take away your posterity, …
2 Chronicles 21:4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened …
Matthew 14:8-11 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here …
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.
there came
2 Samuel 11:18-21 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war…
1 Kings 21:14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
Mark 6:28 And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and …
Lay ye them Such barbarities are by no means uncommon in the East. `It has been know to occur,' says Mr. Morier, `after the combat was over, that prisoners have been put to death in cold blood, in order that the heads, which are immediately despatched to the king, and deposited in heaps at the place gates, might make a more considerable show.'
until the morning
Deuteronomy 21:23 His body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall in …
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?
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.
fall unto the earth
1 Samuel 3:19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his …
1 Samuel 15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is …
Jeremiah 44:28,29 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the …
Zechariah 1:6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, …
Mark 13:31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
the Lord hath done
2 Kings 9:7-10 And you shall smite the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge …
1 Kings 21:19,21-24,29 And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus said the LORD, Have you …
by. [heb] by the hand of
2 Kings 9:36 Why they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word …
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.
and
Psalm 125:5 As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead …
Proverbs 13:20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools …
kinsfolks. or, acquaintance
his priests
2 Kings 23:20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there on …
1 Kings 18:19,40 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, …
1 Kings 22:6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four …
Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that worked …
Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and …
he left
Joshua 10:30 And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand …
Joshua 11:8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, …
1 Kings 14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and …
1 Kings 15:29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house …
1 Kings 16:11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on …
1 Kings 21:22 And will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, …
Job 18:19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining …
Psalm 109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let …
Isaiah 14:21,22 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; …
And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way,
shearing house [heb] house of shepherds binding sheep
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.
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.
Take them alive
2 Kings 10:6,10,11 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If you be …
1 Kings 20:18 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; …
neither left
2 Kings 8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house …
2 Kings 11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, …
2 Chronicles 22:8,10 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment on the …
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.
lighted on [heb] found
2 Kings 10:13 Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who …
2 Kings 9:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram …
Jehonadab
Jeremiah 35:6,8,14-19 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab …
Jonadab
Rechab
1 Chronicles 2:55 And the families of the scribes which dwelled at Jabez; the Tirathites, …
saluted [heb] blessed
Genesis 31:55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his …
Genesis 47:7,10 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: …
Is thine heart right
1 Chronicles 12:17,18 And David went out to meet them, and answered and said to them, If …
John 21:15-17 So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of …
Galatians 4:12 Brothers, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you are: you have …
give me
Ezra 10:19 And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and …
Ezekiel 17:18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, see, …
Galatians 2:9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived …
he took him
Jehu asked for the hand of Jehonadab not merely for the purpose of assisting him into the chariot, but that he might give him an assurance that he would assist him in the prosecution of his desires; for {giving the hand} is considered as a pledge of friendship and fidelity, or a form of entering into a contract, among all nations. Mr. Bruce relates, that when he entreated the protection of a sheik, the great people who were assembled came, `and after {joining hands}, repeated a kind of prayer, of about two minutes long; by which they declared themselves and their children accursed, if ever they lifted their hands against me in the {tell} (or field) in the desert, or on the river; or, in case that I, or mine, should fly to them to refuge, if they did not protect us at the risk of their lives, their families, and their fortunes, or, as they emphatically expressed it, to the death of the last male child among them.' Another striking instance occurs in Ockley's {History of the Saracens.} Telha, just before he died, asked one of Ali's men if he belonged to the emperor of the faithful; and being informed that he did, `Give me then,' said he, `your hand, that I may put mine in it, and by this action renew the oath of fidelity which I have already made to Ali.'
Acts 8:31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired …
And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
Come with me
2 Kings 10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel …
2 Kings 9:7-9 And you shall smite the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge …
Numbers 23:4 And God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared seven altars, …
Numbers 24:13-16 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot …
1 Kings 19:10,14,17 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: …
Proverbs 27:2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and …
Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you …
Matthew 6:2,5 Therefore when you do your alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, …
Romans 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according …
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.
he slew
2 Kings 10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and …
2 Kings 9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from …
2 Chronicles 22:8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment on the …
Psalm 109:8,9 Let his days be few; and let another take his office…
Malachi 4:1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the …
according
2 Kings 10:10 Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of …
2 Kings 9:25,26 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the …
1 Kings 21:21 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will take away your posterity, …
And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.
Ahab served Baal
2 Kings 3:2 And he worked evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, …
1 Kings 16:31,32 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk …
1 Kings 18:19,22,40 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, …
Jehu
Job 13:7 Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Romans 3:8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm …
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are …
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.
all the prophets
2 Kings 3:13 And Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? …
1 Kings 22:6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four …
all his servants
2 Kings 10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal …
all his priests
2 Kings 10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and …
But Jehu
2 Kings 10:18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, Ahab …
Job 13:7 Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Proverbs 29:5 A man that flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
2 Corinthians 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in …
2 Corinthians 11:3,13-15 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through …
2 Corinthians 12:16-18 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I …
1 Thessalonians 2:3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Go in
Exodus 32:27 And he said to them, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, Put every …
Deuteronomy 13:6-11 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, …
Ezekiel 9:5-7 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go you after him through …
let
Ezekiel 22:21,22 Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you in the fire of my wrath, …
Revelation 16:6,7 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have …
edge [heb] mouth
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
brake down the image
2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the …
2 Kings 23:7-14 And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house …
Leviticus 26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and …
Deuteronomy 7:5,25 But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, …
1 Kings 16:32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he …
2 Chronicles 34:3-7 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began …
made it a draught hose This was and ancient mode of degradation, which still continues in the East; and we are informed, that Abbas the Great, king of Persia, having conquered Baghdad, treated the tomb of Hanifah, one of the fathers of the church among the Turks, in a similar manner.
Ezra 6:11 Also I have made a decree, that whoever shall alter this word, let …
Daniel 2:5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from …
Daniel 3:29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, …
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
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.
A.M.
2 Kings 13:2,11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed …
2 Kings 14:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed …
2 Kings 15:9,18,24,28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers …
2 Kings 17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which …
1 Kings 12:28-30 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and …
1 Kings 13:33,34 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made …
1 Kings 14:16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who …
made Israel
Genesis 20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have you done …
Exodus 32:21 And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people to you, that you have …
1 Samuel 2:24 No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make the LORD's …
Mark 6:24-26 And she went forth, and said to her mother, What shall I ask? And …
1 Corinthians 8:9-13 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling …
Galatians 2:12,13 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: …
the golden calves
Exodus 32:4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a engraving …
Hosea 8:5,6 Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against …
Hosea 10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: …
Hosea 13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images …
in Beth-el
1 Kings 12:29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
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.
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.
took no heed [heb] observed not
Deuteronomy 4:15,23 Take you therefore good heed to yourselves…
1 Kings 2:4 That the LORD may continue his word which he spoke concerning me, …
Psalm 39:1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: …
Psalm 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto …
Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which …
Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any …
walk
Deuteronomy 5:33 You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded …
Deuteronomy 10:12,13 And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but …
2 Chronicles 6:16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David …
Nehemiah 10:29 They joined to their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, …
Psalm 78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my …
Daniel 9:10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in …
he departed
2 Kings 10:29 However, from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel …
2 Kings 3:3 Nevertheless he joined to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, …
1 Kings 14:16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who …
In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
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.
eastward [heb] toward the rising of the sun
the land of Gilead
Numbers 32:33-42 And Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children …
Deuteronomy 3:12-17 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which …
Joshua 13:9-12 From Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city …
even. or, even to
Amos 1:3,4 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for …
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?
And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
the time [heb] the days were.
