Now 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, 1Ki 13:32Jdg 8:301Ki 16:241Ki 16:281Ki 21:8-142Ch 22:92Ki 5:3Deu 16:18 “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, 2Ki 5:6 select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, 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, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?” 2Ki 9:242Ki 9:27Isa 27:4Jer 49:19Luk 14:31Nam 1:6 He 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.” 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 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.” Rev 2:20-231Ki 21:8-112Ki 9:32Deu 5:9Isa 14:21-22Job 21:19Jos 7:24-25Luk 9:50
Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up. When 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. 1Ki 21:212Ki 11:12Ch 21:42Ki 10:9Jdg 9:5-57Mat 14:8-11 A messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” 1Ki 21:142Sa 11:18-21Deu 21:23Mrk 6:28
He said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.” In 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? 2Ki 9:14-241Sa 12:3Hos 1:4Isa 5:3 Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of the LORD’s word, which the LORD spoke concerning Ahab’s house. For the LORD has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.” 1Ki 21:291Ki 21:192Ki 9:7-101Ki 21:21-242Ki 9:36Zec 1:61Sa 15:291Sa 3:19
So 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. Job 18:191Ki 14:101Ki 15:291Ki 16:111Ki 18:191Ki 18:401Ki 21:221Ki 22:6
He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on the way, Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, “Who are you?” 2Ki 8:292Ki 8:242Ch 21:172Ch 22:1-102Ki 9:21-27
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.”
He said, “Take them alive!” 1Ki 20:182Ch 22:102Ch 22:82Ki 10:10-112Ki 10:62Ki 11:12Ki 8:18
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.
When 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?” Jer 35:14-191Ch 2:55Ezk 17:18Ezr 10:191Ch 12:17-18Gal 4:122Ki 10:132Ki 9:21
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. 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 When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed them, according to the LORD’s word which he spoke to Elijah. 2Ki 9:82Ch 22:81Ki 21:212Ki 10:10-112Ki 9:25-26Mal 4:1Psa 109:8-9
Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much. 1Ki 16:31-321Ki 18:191Ki 18:221Ki 18:402Ki 3:2Job 13:7Php 4:8Rom 3:8 Now 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. 1Ki 22:61Ki 18:191Th 2:32Co 11:13-152Co 11:32Co 12:16-182Co 4:22Ki 10:18
Jehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!” Jol 1:14Exo 32:51Ki 18:19-201Ki 21:12
So they proclaimed it. Jehu 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. 1Ki 16:322Ki 11:18Jdg 16:27Jol 3:11-14Jol 3:2Rev 16:16 He said to him who kept the wardrobe, “Bring out robes for all the worshipers of Baal!” Exo 28:2Mat 22:11-12
So he brought robes out to them. Jehu 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 the LORD are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal.” Mat 13:30Mat 13:41Mat 25:32-33
So 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.” 1Ki 20:30-42
As 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. Rev 16:6-71Ki 18:40Ezk 22:21-22Deu 13:6-11Exo 32:27Ezk 9:5-7 They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal and burned them. 1Ki 14:232Ki 19:182Ki 3:22Sa 5:21 They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to 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.
However, 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. 1Ki 12:28-301Ki 13:33-341Ki 14:161Co 8:9-131Sa 2:242Ki 13:112Ki 13:22Ki 14:24 The LORD 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.” 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, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin. 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 away parts of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel 1Ki 19:172Ki 8:122Ki 13:222Ki 13:252Ki 14:25 from 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. 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, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 1Ki 11:411Ki 14:191Ki 14:292Ki 12:192Ki 13:8 Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place. 1Ki 1:211Ki 14:201Ki 14:311Ki 2:102Ki 13:12Ki 13:7-82Sa 7:12 The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.