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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

2 Kings 10:17

Compare 2 Kings 10:11. Thus was finally completed the political revolution which transferred the throne from the house of Omri to that of Nimshi, the fifth of the royal families of Israel.

According to the saying of the Lord - This emphatic reiteration (compare 2 Kings 10:10) marks, first, how in the mind of the writer all this history is viewed as deriving its special interest from its being so full and complete an accomplishment of Elijah’s prophecies; and, secondly, how at the time Jehu carefully put forward the plea that what he did had this object. It does not indicate that a single-minded wish to execute God’s will was Jehu’s predominate motive. Probably, even where he most strictly fulfilled the letter of prophecies, he was working for himself, not for God; and hence, vengeance was denounced upon his house even for the very “blood of Jezreel” Hosea 1:4.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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 ver...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND WHEN HE CAME... HE SLEW. — Literally. _And he entered Samaria, and smote._ AHAB. — Again put for the house or family so called. Some MSS. and the _Syriac express_ it so, reading “the house of Aha...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּבֹא֙ שֹֽׁמְרֹ֔ון וַ֠ יַּךְ אֶת ־כָּל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    FRESH MURDERS-THE EXTIRPATION OF BAALWORSHIP 2 Kings 10:12 B.C. 842 " _ Jehu, sur les hauts lieux, enfin osant offrir_ Un temeraire encens que Dieu ne peut souffrir, N'a pour servir sa cause et v...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Jehu, as the Lord's minister in the destruction of idols, is graciously upheld in this service. And, hence all the worshippers of Baal were blinded to their own destruction. But, Reader! do observe, f...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND WHEN HE CAME TO SAMARIA, HE SLEW ALL THAT REMAINED UNTO AHAB IN SAMARIA,.... All that were in any connection with him, as related to his family, or as ministers of his in civil or religious things...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 17. _He slew all that remai...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria_ Either all his household, or, rather, all his kindred and relations, though more remote from him. This he did, no doubt, under pretence of zeal for God...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, all the relatives living in this city, TILL HE HAD DESTROYED HIM, ACCORDING TO THE SAYING OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPAKE TO ELI...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Baal-Worship Discontinued....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ALL THAT REMAINED UNTO AHAB; either all his household; or rather, all his kindred and relations, though more remote from him....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 10:17 came H935 (H8799) Samaria H8111 killed H5221 (H8686) remained H7604 (H8737) Ahab H256 Samaria...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CONTINUING PURGE OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB (2 KINGS 10:9). Had Jehu stopped there no blame would have been laid at his door. All would have recognised that he had done what was inevitable. But as can s...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 21:21; 2 Chronicles 22:8; 2 Kings 10:10; 2 Kings 10:11;...

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