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Verse 2 Kings 10:16. _COME WITH ME, AND SEE MY ZEAL FOR THE LORD._] O
thou ostentatious and murderous hypocrite! Thou have zeal for Jehovah
and his pure religion! Witness thy calves at Dan and Bethel,...
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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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SEE. be eyewitnesses of.
ZEAL FOR THE LORD. Not pure. See verses: 2 Kings 10:29....
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_see my zeal for the Lord_ This was the boast of a man who did not
know his own heart. He had some zeal and manifested it in the
destruction of Baal, but stopped short at the suppression of the
calves...
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DISCOURSE: 372
TRUE AND FALSE ZEAL
2 Kings 10:16. _Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord._
UNGODLY men, though they will not follow the example of the godly, are
glad to have their sanction and...
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B. JEHU AND JEHONADAB 10:15-17
TRANSLATION
(15) And he departed from there, and found Jehonadab the son of Rechab
coming to meet him; and he blessed him, and said unto him, Is your
heart right as my...
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_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...
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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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SEE. — Rather, _look on at_.
MY ZEAL FOR THE LORD. — Jehu addresses Jehonadab as a notoriously
staunch adherent of the old faith.
THEY MADE HIM RIDE. — The Syriac, LXX., and Arabic read, “he made
hi...
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וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ לְכָ֣ה אִתִּ֔י וּ רְאֵ֖ה
בְּ
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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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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...
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WIPING OUT BAAL-WORSHIP
2 Kings 10:12
For the well-being of the race it is sometimes necessary to cut off
evil-doers, lest they spread such a contagion of evil as to involve
the whole body politic. T...
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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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Poor Jehu did not, it is plain, know the real motives of his heart
when he said this; for the Holy Ghost tells us in 2 Kings 10:29, that
Jehu himself was an idolator. Reader! oh! that the blessed Spir...
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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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_A GOOD LESSON FROM A BAD KING_
‘See my zeal for the Lord.’
2 Kings 10:16
I. THE ZEAL OF JEHU! HOW BADLY OUR OWN EFFORTS AFTER SOCIAL OR
PERSONAL RIGHTEOUSNESS COMPARE WITH IT!—Put over against it...
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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 HE SAID, COME WITH ME, AND SEE MY ZEAL FOR THE LORD OF HOSTS,....
In destroying idolaters and idolatry, with an intent to do which he
was going to Samaria; this seems to savour very much of vain g...
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And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made
him ride in his chariot.
Ver. 16. _Come with me, and see my zeal._] It is good policy to join
friendship with the religious: as h...
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_He lighted on Jehonadab_ A Kenite, (1 Chronicles 2:55,) and a man of
singular prudence and piety, as appears from this history, and from
Jeremiah 35:6; from him descended the race of the Rechabites....
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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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And he, Jehu, SAID, COME WITH ME AND SEE MY ZEAL FOR THE LORD. SO THEY
MADE HIM RIDE IN HIS CHARIOT, not by force, of course, but by friendly
persuasion and invitation....
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The Baal-Worship Discontinued....
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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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15-28 Is thine heart right? This is a question we should often put to
ourselves. I make a fair profession, have gained a reputation among
men, but, is my heart right? Am I sincere with God? Jehonadab...
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MY ZEAL FOR THE LORD, i.e. for the vindication of his honour and
quarrel, and for the execution of his commands. Do not believe my
words, but mine actions, which thine eyes shall behold. THEY, i.e.
Je...
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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...
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2 Kings 10:16
Jehu, the founder of the fifth dynasty of the kings of Israel,
interests us partly by his career and achievements, but much more by
the problem of his character. His first achievement w...
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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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_Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord._
THE NATURE OF CHRISTIAN ZEAL
Truly it is delightful and instructive to see any creature exhibiting
the proofs of an ardent zeal for the glory, of the gre...
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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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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 19:10; 1 Kings 19:14; 1 Kings 19:17; 2 Kings 10:31; 2 Kin