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, 1 1Ki 13:32Jdg 8:301Ki 16:241Ki 16:281Ki 21:8-142Ch 22:92Ki 5:3Deu 16:18 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; 2Ki 5:6 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. 1Ki 1:24-251Ki 12:20-211Sa 10:241Sa 11:152Sa 2:12-172Sa 2:8-9Deu 17:14-15Jhn 18:36 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand? 2Ki 9:242Ki 9:27Isa 27:4Jer 49:19Luk 14:31Nam 1:6 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. 1Ki 20:321Ki 20:4Jos 9:112Ki 18:14Jos 9:8Jer 27:17Jer 27:7-8Jhn 12:26 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. 2 Rev 2:20-231Ki 21:8-112Ki 9:32Deu 5:9Isa 14:21-22Job 21:19Jos 7:24-25Luk 9:50 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. 1Ki 21:212Ki 11:12Ch 21:42Ki 10:9Jdg 9:5-57Mat 14:8-11
¶ 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. 1Ki 21:142Sa 11:18-21Deu 21:23Mrk 6:28 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? 2Ki 9:14-241Sa 12:3Hos 1:4Isa 5:3 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. 3 1Ki 21:291Ki 21:192Ki 9:7-101Ki 21:21-242Ki 9:36Zec 1:61Sa 15:291Sa 3:19 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. 4 Job 18:191Ki 14:101Ki 15:291Ki 16:111Ki 18:191Ki 18:401Ki 21:221Ki 22:6
¶ And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way, 5 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. 6 7 2Ki 8:292Ki 8:242Ch 21:172Ch 22:1-102Ki 9:21-27 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. 1Ki 20:182Ch 22:102Ch 22:82Ki 10:10-112Ki 10:62Ki 11:12Ki 8:18
¶ 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. 8 9 Jer 35:14-191Ch 2:55Ezk 17:18Ezr 10:191Ch 12:17-18Gal 4:122Ki 10:132Ki 9:21 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot. 1Ki 19:102Ki 10:31Mat 6:51Ki 19:141Ki 19:172Ki 9:7-9Ezk 33:31Mat 6:2 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. 2Ki 9:82Ch 22:81Ki 21:212Ki 10:10-112Ki 9:25-26Mal 4:1Psa 109:8-9
¶ And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much. 1Ki 16:31-321Ki 18:191Ki 18:221Ki 18:402Ki 3:2Job 13:7Php 4:8Rom 3:8 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. 1Ki 22:61Ki 18:191Th 2:32Co 11:13-152Co 11:32Co 12:16-182Co 4:22Ki 10:18 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it. 10 Jol 1:14Exo 32:51Ki 18:19-201Ki 21:12 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. 11 1Ki 16:322Ki 11:18Jdg 16:27Jol 3:11-14Jol 3:2Rev 16:16 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. Exo 28:2Mat 22:11-12 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. Mat 13:30Mat 13:41Mat 25:32-33 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. 1Ki 20:30-42 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. 12 Rev 16:6-71Ki 18:40Ezk 22:21-22Deu 13:6-11Exo 32:27Ezk 9:5-7 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them. 13 1Ki 14:232Ki 19:182Ki 3:22Sa 5:21 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day. Dan 2:5Dan 3:29Ezr 6:111Ki 16:322Ch 34:3-72Ki 18:42Ki 23:7-14Deu 7:25 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 Beth-el, and that were in Dan. 1Ki 12:28-301Ki 13:33-341Ki 14:161Co 8:9-131Sa 2:242Ki 13:112Ki 13:22Ki 14:24 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. 2Ki 10:352Ki 13:12Ki 13:102Ki 14:231Ki 20:421Ki 21:221Ki 21:291Sa 15:18-24 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. 14 2Ki 10:29Pro 4:23Heb 2:1Psa 78:101Ki 14:161Ki 2:42Ch 6:162Ki 3:3
¶ In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel; 15 1Ki 19:172Ki 8:122Ki 13:222Ki 13:252Ki 14:25 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. 16 17 Amo 1:3-4Deu 2:36Deu 3:12-17Jos 13:9-12Num 32:33-42 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? 1Ki 11:411Ki 14:191Ki 14:292Ki 12:192Ki 13:8 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead. 1Ki 1:211Ki 14:201Ki 14:311Ki 2:102Ki 13:12Ki 13:7-82Sa 7:12 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years. 18