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Verse 2 Kings 10:7. _PUT THEIR HEADS IN BASKETS_] What cold-blooded
wretches were the whole of these people!...
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2. JEHU'S JUDGMENTS, BAAL-WORSHIP DESTROYED, AND HIS DEATH
CHAPTER 10
_ 1. The judgment upon the house of Ahab (2 Kings 10:1)_
2. The relations of Ahaziah slain (2 Kings 10:12; 2 Chronicles 22:8
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DESTRUCTION OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB AND OF THE BAAL WORSHIPPERS. The same
source is continued, but 2 Kings 10:28 are from a Deuteronomist. The
whole story is one of the most terrible in the OT, Ahab had...
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BASKETS. the baskets. Hebrew. _dud,_ for carrying fruit. Still used
for this purpose. Not _sal_ (bread-basket), which Gideon (Judges
6:19), and Pharaoh's baker (Genesis 40:17) used....
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_and slew seventy persons_ R.V. AND SLEW THEM, EVEN SEVENTY PERSONS.
Though the pronoun is not expressed in the original, it is needed for
the sense. The A.V. might signify any seventy persons.
_in b...
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III. THE AFTERMATH OF THE _COUP_ 10:1-27
In chapter 10 the historian discusses some of the consequences of the
revolution of 841 B.C. He discusses the bloody massacre of the house
of Omri (2 Kings 10:...
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_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...
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JEHU'S EXTERMINATION OF BAAL WORSHIP
1. Ahab.. sons] These were probably his grandchildren rather than his
children. UNTO THE RULERS OF JEZREEL] LXX has 'unto the rulers of
Samaria,' which the sense...
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THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 10
THE DEATHS OF 70 *DESCENDANTS OF AHAB
V1 There were 70 *descendants of Ahab’s family who lived in
Samaria. Jehu wr...
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AND SLEW. — Rather, _butchered, or slaughtered._ The way in which
the writer speaks of this massacre — “they took the king’s sons,
and butchered seventy persons” — shows that he did not sympathise
wit...
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JEHU ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE
2 Kings 10:1
B.C. 842-814
"The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose."
- SHAKESPEARE.
BUT the work of Jehu was not yet over. He was established at Jezreel:
he wa...
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THE DOOM OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB
2 Kings 10:1
What an iconoclast was this Jehu! Before his strong hand the whole
structure of Baal-worship received its death-blow. And as we meet
Elijah's name in this c...
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Here begins the second section of the Book, that which deals with the
rapid and fearful corruption of the whole nation. The story alternates
between Israel and Judah, and both sections of the nation s...
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It is well worthy the Reader's observation, that those very elders of
Samaria had been the same time-serving creatures at the command of
Jezebel respecting the murder of Naboth, when she sent letters...
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But of this dreadful work all was not over, for Ahab had seventy sons
(2 Kings 10:1-36). It seemed utterly beyond the scope of man's thought
that such a family could fall seventy sons. Ahab had sevent...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9 AND 10.
In chapter 9 the judgment on Ahab's house commences. He who executes
it does not remove, in so doing, the rod which God had lifted up
against Israel...
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AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE LETTER CAME TO THEM,.... They did not in
the least hesitate, but immediately complied with the contents of it:
THAT THEY TOOK THE KING'S SONS, AND SLEW SEVENTY PERSONS;...
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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.
Ver. 7. _And put their hea...
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_They took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons_ Having been
wickedly obsequious to Jezebel's order for the murder of Naboth, now,
by the same base spirit, they are as pliable to Jehu, and as rea...
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1 Iehu by his letters causeth seuentie of Ahabs children to be
beheaded.
8 He excuseth the facte by the prophecie of Elijah.
12 At the shearing house he slayeth two and fourtie of Ahaziahs
brethren....
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THE RELATIVES OF AHAB SLAIN...
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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, a gruesome proof of their all...
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AHAB'S SONS KILLED
(vv.1-11)
Ahab had 70 sons in Samaria and Jehu was purposed to put them to death
also. He chose the method of demanding by letter that the rulers and
elders of Israel should choos...
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1-14 In the most awful events, though attended by the basest crimes
of man, the truth and justice of God are to be noticed; and he never
did nor can command any thing unjust or unreasonable. Jehu des...
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SLEW SEVENTY PERSONS: Jehu justly required this, because the sovereign
and most righteous Lord of all men's lives commanded it; but the
Samaritans wickedly obeyed it, because they destroyed persons in...
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2 Kings 10:7 letter H5612 came H935 (H8800) took H3947 (H8799) kings
H4428 sons H1121 slaughtered H7819 ...
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THE INITIAL DESTRUCTION OF THE SEVENTY ‘SONS' OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB
(2 KINGS 10:1).
Very few kings of that time (if any) who replaced another dynasty with
their own, would have acted ant differently fr...
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CONTENTS: Judgment on house of Ahab. Princes of Judah slain. Baal
worship put out. Jehu's reign and death.
CHARACTERS: God, Jehu, Jehonadab, Hazael.
CONCLUSION: God is not the author of any man's si...
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2 Kings 10:1. _Seventy sons,_ whose end was destruction, like the sons
of Gideon, of Saul, and of David. The sure way to build up a house is
equity, not polygamy. _Jehu wrote letters._ God gave him a...
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_Jehu wrote letters and sent to Samaria._
JEHU
Jehu. He did not rest until he had destroyed the house of Ahab and the
worship of Baal. There are many Jehus to-day and there is much
Jehuism: religion...
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 10:7 THEY TOOK THE KING’S SONS AND
SLAUGHTERED THEM. This fulfills the word of the Lord in 2 Kings 9:7
and is similar to other situations in which entire
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THE FALL OF BAAL
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 10:1. SEVENTY SONS—_i.e., descendants_, sons grandsons, &c.
THE RULERS OF JEZREEL—“Jezreel” has no authoritative place in
the text. The LXX....
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 10:1
THE REIGN OF JEHU OVER ISRAEL.
2 KINGS 10:1
The revolution initiated by the destruction of Joram and Jezebel is
here tra
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Now Ahab who was the husband of this wicked woman Jezebel, who himself
was extremely wicked, had seventy sons. Evidently Jezebel wasn't his
only wife. Now these sons had grown up in Samaria and in Jez...
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1 Kings 21:21; 2 Chronicles 21:4; 2 Kings 10:9; 2 Kings 11:1; Judg
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Sent them — Jehu justly required this, because the sovereign lord of
all mens lives commanded it, but the Samaritans wickedly obeyed it,
without any knowledge of, or regard to God's command....