2 Kings 10:20

Proclaim[R.V. Sanctify] a solemn assembly The verb is not the same which is correctly rendered -they proclaimed" in the next clause. It is constantly rendered -Sanctify" elsewhere. Cf. Exodus 13:12; Joshua 7:13; Joel 1:14; Joel 2:15-16; and is the word used of making a holywar. See Jeremiah 6:4; Jeremiah 51:27-28, &c., where -prepare" is the appropriate translation. -Proclaim" is found as the equivalent nowhere but here.

a solemn assembly The word (with a slightly different pointing) is used in Leviticus 23:36; Numbers 29:35; Deuteronomy 16:8; Nehemiah 8:18, of the solemn gatherings of God's people for their sacred worship. Jehu by using such a term seems to be putting Baal entirely on a level with Jehovah, a proceeding that went, as he professed to do, beyond all Ahab's practices.