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And Jehu wrote letters and sent <i>them</i> to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, the elders, and to the guardians of <i>the children of</i> Ahab, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>Now, when this letter comes to you, since your masters sons are with you, as well as the chariots and horses and a fortified city and the weapons, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>select the best and fittest of your masters sons, and set <i>him</i> on his fathers throne, and fight for your masters house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>But they feared greatly and said, Behold, the two kings did not stand before him; how then can we stand? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>And the one who <i>was</i> over the household, and he who <i>was</i> over the city, the elders, and the guardians of <i>the children,</i> sent <i>word</i> to Jehu, saying, We are your servants, all that you say to us we will do, we will not make any man king; do what is good in your sight. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>Then he wrote a letter to them a second time saying, If you are on my side, and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your masters sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow about this time. Now the kings sons, seventy persons, <i>were</i> with the great men of the city, <i>who</i> were rearing them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>When the letter came to them, they took the kings sons and slaughtered <i>them,</i> seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent <i>them</i> to him at Jezreel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>When the messenger came and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the kings sons, he said, Put them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Now in the morning he went out and stood and said to all the people, You are innocent; behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has done what He spoke through His servant Elijah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>So Jehu killed all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men and his acquaintances and his priests, until he left him without a survivor.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Then he arose and departed and went to Samaria. On the way while he was at Beth-eked of the shepherds, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and said, Who are you? And they answered, We are the relatives of Ahaziah; and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and the sons of the queen mother. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>He said, Take them alive. So they took them alive and killed them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two men; and he left none of them.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Now when he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab <i>coming</i> to meet him; and he greeted him and said to him, Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. <i>Jehu said,</i> If it is, give <i>me</i> your hand. And he gave him his hand, and he took him up to him into the chariot. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>He said, Come with me and see my zeal for the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. So he made him ride in his chariot. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>When he came to Samaria, he killed all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> which He spoke to Elijah.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Jehu Destroys Baal Worshipers</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Jehu gathered all the people and said to them, Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Now, summon all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests; let no one be missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal; whoever is missing shall not live. But Jehu did it in cunning, so that he might destroy the worshipers of Baal. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>And Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed <i>it.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Jehu sent throughout Israel and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And when they went into the house of Baal, the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>He said to the one who <i>was</i> in charge of the wardrobe, Bring out garments for all the worshipers of Baal. So he brought out garments for them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab; and he said to the worshipers of Baal, Search and see that there is here with you none of the servants of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, but only the worshipers of Baal. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.<br>      Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he had said, The one who permits any of the men whom I bring into your hands to escape shall give up his life in exchange.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Then it came about, as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the royal officers, Go in, kill them; let none come out. And they killed them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the royal officers threw <i>them</i> out, and went to the inner room of the house of Baal. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>They brought out the <i>sacred</i> pillars of the house of Baal and burned them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>They also broke down the <i>sacred</i> pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Thus Jehu eradicated Baal out of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>However, <i>as for</i> the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin, from these Jehu did not depart, <i>even</i> the golden calves that <i>were</i> at Bethel and that <i>were</i> at Dan. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing what is right in My eyes, <i>and</i> have done to the house of Ahab according to all that <i>was</i> in My heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of Israel, with all his heart; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel sin.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>In those days the L<font size="1">ORD</font> began to cut off <i>portions</i> from Israel; and Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Jehoahaz Succeeds Jehu</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/10-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. 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