2Ki 10 | TSK | STEP | Jehu, by his letters, causes seventy of Ahab's children to be beheaded. He excuses the fact by the prophecy of Elijah. At the shearing house he slays two and forty of Ahaziah's brethren. He takes Jehonadab into his company. By subtilty he destroys all the worshippers of Baal. Jehu follows Jeroboam's sins. Hazael oppresses Israel. Jehoahaz succeeds Jehu. seventy sons. in Samaria. the rulers. them. Heb. nourishers.

which brought them up."The rich," says Mr. Morier, "hire a {dedeh,} or wet nurse for their children. If a boy, the father appoints a steady man from the age of two years to be his {laleh,} who, I conjecture, must stand in the same capacity as the bringers up of children mentioned in the catastrophe of Ahab's sons. But if it be a daughter, she has a {gees sefeed,} or white head, attached to her for the same purpose as the {laleh.}"

slew seventy.

9; 11:1; Jud 9:5-57; 1Ki 21:21; 2Ch 21:4; Mt 14:8-11

there came.

2Sa 11:18-21; 1Ki 21:14; Mr 6:28

Lay ye them.Such barbarities are by no means uncommon in the East. "It has been know to occur," says Mr. Morier, "after the combat was over, that prisoners have been put to death in cold blood, in order that the heads, which are immediately despatched to the king, and deposited in heaps at the place gates, might make a more considerable show."

until the morning.

De 21:23

Ye be righteous.

1Sa 12:3; Isa 5:3

I conspired.

9:14-24; Ho 1:4

fall unto the earth.

1Sa 3:19; 15:29; Jer 44:28,29; Zec 1:6; Mr 13:31

the Lord hath done.

9:7-10; 1Ki 21:19,21-24,29

by. Heb. by the hand of.

9:36; *marg:

and.

Ps 125:5; Pr 13:20

kinsfolks. or, acquaintance. his priests.

23:20; 1Ki 18:19,40; 22:6; Re 19:20; 20:10

he left.

Jos 10:30; 11:8; 1Ki 14:10; 15:29; 16:11; 21:22; Job 18:19

Ps 109:13; Isa 14:21,22

shearing house. Heb. house of shepherds binding sheep.

met with. Heb. found. the brethren.

8:24,29; 9:21-27; 2Ch 21:17; 22:1-10

salute. Heb. the peace of, etc.

Take them alive.

6,10,11; 1Ki 20:18

neither left.

8:18; 11:1; 2Ch 22:8,10

lighted on. Heb. found.

13; 9:21; *margins

Jehonadab.

Jer 35:6,8,14-19

Jonadab. Rechab.

1Ch 2:55

saluted. Heb. blessed.

Ge 31:55; 47:7,10

Is thine heart right.

1Ch 12:17,18; Joh 21:15-17; Ga 4:12

give me.

Ezr 10:19; Eze 17:18; Ga 2:9

he took him.Jehu asked for the hand of Jehonadab not merely for the purpose of assisting him into the chariot, but that he might give him an assurance that he would assist him in the prosecution of his desires; for giving the hand is considered as a pledge of friendship and fidelity, or a form of entering into a contract, among all nations. Mr. Bruce relates, that when he entreated the protection of a {sheikh,} the great people who were assembled came, "and after joining hands, repeated a kind of prayer, of about two minutes long; by which they declared themselves and their children accursed, if ever they lifted their hands against me in the {tell,} (or field) in the desert, or on the river; or, in case that I, or mine, should fly to them for refuge, if they did not protect us at the risk of their lives, their families, and their fortunes, or, as they emphatically expressed it, to the death of the last male child among them." Another striking instance occurs in Ockley's History of the Saracens. Telha, just before he died, asked one of Ali's men if he belonged to the emperor of the faithful; and being informed that he did, "Give me then," said he, "your hand, that I may put mine in it, and by this action renew the oath of fidelity which I have already made to Ali."

Ac 8:31

Come with me.

31; 9:7-9; Nu 23:4; 24:13-16; 1Ki 19:10,14,17; Pr 27:2; Eze 33:31

Mt 6:2,5; Ro 10:2

he slew.

11; 9:8; 2Ch 22:8; Ps 109:8,9; Mal 4:1

according.

10; 9:25,26; 1Ki 21:21

Ahab served Baal.

3:2; 1Ki 16:31,32; 18:19,22,40

Jehu.

Job 13:7; Ro 3:8; Php 4:8

all the prophets.

3:13; 1Ki 22:6

all his servants.

all his priests.

But Jehu.

18; Job 13:7; Pr 29:5; 2Co 4:2; 11:3,13-15; 12:16-18; 1Th 2:3

Proclaim. Heb. Sanctify.

1Ki 18:19,20; 21:12; Joe 1:14

And they came.

Joe 3:2,11-14; Re 16:16

the house of Baal.

1Ki 16:32

full from one end to another. or, so full that they stoodmouth to mouth.

Jud 16:27

vestments.

Ex 28:2; Mt 22:11,12

Jehonadab.

the worshippers.

Mt 13:30,41; 25:32,33

If any of the men.

1Ki 20:30-42

Go in.

Ex 32:27; De 13:6-11; Eze 9:5-7

let.

Eze 22:21,22; Re 16:6,7

edge. Heb. mouth.

images. Heb. statues.

1Ki 14:23; *marg:

and burned them.

19:18; 2Sa 5:21

brake down the image.

18:4; 23:7-14; Le 26:30; De 7:5,25; 1Ki 16:32; 2Ch 34:3-7

made it a draught house.This was an ancient mode of degradation, which still continues in the East; and we are informed, that Abbas the Great, king of Persia, having conquered Bagdad, treated the tomb of Hanifah, one of the fathers of the church among the Turks, in a similar manner.

Ezr 6:11; Da 2:5; 3:29

A.M. 3120-3148. B.C. 884-856. the sins.

13:2,11; 14:24; 15:9,18,24,28; 17:22; 1Ki 12:28-30; 13:33,34; 14:16

made Israel.

Ge 20:9; Ex 32:21; 1Sa 2:24; Mr 6:24-26; 1Co 8:9-13; Ga 2:12,13

the golden calves.

Ex 32:4; Ho 8:5,6; 10:5; 13:2

in Beth-el.

1Ki 12:29

Because thou hast.

1Ki 21:29; Eze 29:18-20; Ho 1:4

according to all that.