_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,_ Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Since it appears (2 Kings 10:13) that grandsons are included, it is probable that th... [ Continue Reading ]
_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;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ He that was over the house -... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 BROU... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Lay ye them in two heaps ... The exhibition of the heads of enemies in the East in ancient times always was con... [ Continue Reading ]
_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?_ Said to all the people, Ye be righteous ... A great concourse was assembled to gaze on this, novel and ghastly... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE AROSE AND DEPARTED, AND CAME TO SAMARIA. AND AS HE WAS AT THE SHEARING HOUSE IN THE WAY,_ At the shearing house, х_ BEEYT-`EEQED_ (H1044) _ HAARO`IYM_ (H7462)] - house of shepherds binding (shearing) sheep; or it may be a proper name, Beth-heked-rohim.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ We are the brethren of Ahaziah - i:e., not full, but step-brothers, sons of Jehoram by var... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Slew them at the pit of the shearing house, х_ 'EL_ (H413) _ BOWR_ (H953)] - at the pit (Genesis 37:20) of Beth-heked-rohim.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 I... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, COME WITH ME, AND SEE MY ZEAL FOR THE LORD. SO THEY MADE HIM RIDE IN HIS CHARIOT._ He said, Come ... and see my zeal for the Lord. It was Jehu's policy, by extirpating the Baal idolatry, to re-establish the calf-symbols; and he boasts of making him by such a course a zealot for the ho... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Cal... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JEHU SAID, PROCLAIM A SOLEMN ASSEMBLY FOR BAAL. AND THEY PROCLAIMED IT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Bring forth vestments. The priests of Baal were clad, probably, in robes of white byssus while they were engaged in the functions of their office, and these w... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ HOWBEIT FROM THE SINS OF JEROBOAM. Jehu had no intention of carrying his zeal for the Lord beyond a certain point, and... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN THOSE DAYS THE LORD BEGAN TO CUT ISRAEL SHORT: AND HAZAEL SMOTE THEM IN ALL THE COASTS OF ISRAEL;_ In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short. The national calamities to which allusion is made were occasioned, it is supposed, by cause about to be mentioned. Jehu, shortly after his obtaini... [ Continue Reading ]