1Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And so Jehu wrote letters, and he sent to Samaria, to the nobles of the city, and to those greater by birth, and to those who had raised Ahab’s sons, saying:stylus1 Kings 13:32, Judges 8:30, 1 Kings 13:32, Judges 8:30, Judges 12:142“Immediately when you receive these letters, you who have your lord’s sons, and chariots, and horses, and reinforced cities, and weapons,stylus2 Kings 5:6, 2 Kings 5:63choose him who is better and who pleases you from among the sons of your lord, and set him on the throne of his father, and fight for the house of your lord.”stylus2 Samuel 2:12, 2 Samuel 2:17, 1 Samuel 11:15, Deuteronomy 17:14, Deuteronomy 17:154But they were vehemently afraid, and they said: “Behold, two kings were not able to stand before him. So how will we be able to withstand him?”stylus2 Kings 9:27, 2 Kings 9:24, 2 Kings 9:27, 2 Kings 9:24, Nahum 1:65Therefore, those who were in charge of the house, and the prefects of the city, and those greater by birth, and those who raised the sons, sent to Jehu, saying: “We are your servants. Whatever you will order, we will do. But we will not appoint a king for ourselves. Do whatever pleases you.”stylus1 Kings 20:32, 1 Kings 20:4, Joshua 9:11, 1 Kings 20:32, 1 Kings 20:46Then he again wrote letters to them a second time, saying: “If you are mine, and if you obey me, take the heads of the sons of your lord, and come to me at Jezreel at this same hour tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, being seventy men, were being raised with the nobles of the city.stylusJob 21:19, Luke 9:50, Deuteronomy 5:9, Numbers 25:4, Matthew 12:307And when the letters had arrived to them, they took the sons of the king, and they killed the seventy men. And they placed their heads in baskets, and they sent these to him at Jezreel.stylus1 Kings 21:21, 1 Kings 21:21, 2 Kings 11:1, 2 Kings 11:1, 2 Chronicles 21:48Then a messenger arrived and reported to him, saying, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” And he responded, “Place them in two piles, beside the entrance of the gate, until morning.”stylusDeuteronomy 21:23, 2 Samuel 11:18, 2 Samuel 11:21, 1 Kings 21:14, Mark 6:289And when it had become light, he went out. And standing there, he said to all the people: “You are just. If I have conspired against my lord, and if I have killed him, who has struck down all of these?stylus2 Kings 9:14, 2 Kings 9:24, 2 Kings 9:14, 2 Kings 9:24, 1 Samuel 12:310Now therefore, see that none of the words of the Lord has fallen to the ground, which the Lord spoke over the house of Ahab, and that the Lord has done what he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah.”stylus1 Kings 21:29, 1 Kings 21:29, 1 Kings 21:19, 1 Kings 21:19, 2 Kings 9:711And so, Jehu struck down all who had remained from the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his nobles and friends and priests, until no remnant of them was left behind.stylusJob 18:19, Job 18:19, Joshua 10:30, 1 Kings 18:19, Revelation 20:1012And he rose up and went to Samaria. And when he had arrived at the shepherds’ cabin along the way,stylus13he found the brothers of Ahaziah, the king of Judah, and he said to them, “Who are you?” And they responded, “We are the brothers of Ahaziah, and we are going down to greet the sons of the king, and the sons of the queen.”stylus2 Kings 8:29, 2 Kings 8:29, 2 Kings 8:24, 2 Kings 8:24, 2 Chronicles 21:1714And he said, “Take them alive.” And when they had taken them alive, they cut their throats at the cistern beside the cabin, forty-two men. And he did not leave any of them behind.stylus2 Kings 11:1, 1 Kings 20:18, 2 Kings 10:6, 2 Kings 8:18, 2 Chronicles 22:1015And when he had gone away from there, he found Jehonadab, the son of Rechab, coming to meet him, and he blessed him. And he said to him, “Is your heart upright, just as my heart is with your heart?” And Jehonadab said, “It is.” Then he said, “If it is, then give me your hand.” He gave his hand to him. And so he lifted him up to himself in the chariot.stylusJeremiah 35:14, Jeremiah 35:19, Jeremiah 35:14, Jeremiah 35:19, 1 Chronicles 2:5516And he said to him, “Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord.” And he gave him a place in his chariot.stylus1 Kings 19:10, 1 Kings 19:10, 2 Kings 10:31, 2 Kings 10:31, Matthew 6:217And he led him into Samaria. And he struck down all who were left behind of Ahab in Samaria, even to the last one, in accord with the word of the Lord, which he spoke through Elijah.stylus2 Kings 9:8, 2 Kings 9:8, 2 Chronicles 22:8, 2 Chronicles 22:8, 1 Kings 21:2118Then Jehu gathered together the entire people. And he said to them: “Ahab worshipped Baal a little, but I will worship him even more.stylus1 Kings 16:31, 1 Kings 16:32, 1 Kings 16:31, 1 Kings 16:32, Philippians 4:819Now therefore, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, and all his servants, and all his priests. Let no one be permitted not to come, for great is the sacrifice from me to Baal. Whoever will fail to come, he shall not live.” Now Jehu was doing this treacherously, so that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.stylus1 Kings 22:6, 1 Kings 22:6, 1 Kings 18:19, 1 Kings 18:19, 2 Corinthians 11:1320And he said: “Sanctify a day of solemnity for Baal.” And he summonedstylusJoel 1:14, Joel 1:14, Exodus 32:5, Exodus 32:5, 1 Kings 18:1921and sent into all the borders of Israel. And all the servants of Baal came. There was left behind not even one who did not arrive. And they entered into the temple of Baal. And the house of Baal was filled, all the way from end to end.stylus1 Kings 16:32, 1 Kings 16:32, Revelation 16:16, Judges 16:27, 2 Kings 11:1822And he said to those who were over the vestments, “Bring forth vestments for all the servants of Baal.” And they brought forth vestments for them.stylusMatthew 22:11, Matthew 22:12, Exodus 28:2, Matthew 22:11, Matthew 22:1223And Jehu, upon entering the temple of Baal with Jehonadab, the son of Rechab, said to the worshippers of Baal, “Inquire and see that there is no one with you from the servants of the Lord, but only from the servants of Baal.”stylusMatthew 13:41, Matthew 25:32, Matthew 25:33, Matthew 13:30, Matthew 13:4124Then they entered, so that they might offer victims and holocausts. But Jehu had prepared for himself eighty men outside. And he had said to them, “If anyone escapes from among these men, whom I have led into your hands, your life will take the place of his life.”stylus1 Kings 20:30, 1 Kings 20:42, 1 Kings 20:30, 1 Kings 20:4225Then it happened that, when the holocaust had been completed, Jehu ordered his soldiers and officers, saying: “Enter and strike them down. Let no one escape.” And the soldiers and officers struck them down with the edge of the sword, and they cast them out. And they went into the city of the temple of Baal,stylusRevelation 16:6, Revelation 16:7, Revelation 16:6, Revelation 16:7, 1 Kings 18:4026and they took away the statue from the shrine of Baal, and they burned it upstylus1 Kings 14:23, 1 Kings 14:23, 2 Samuel 5:21, 2 Kings 3:2, 2 Kings 19:1827and crushed it. They also tore down the temple of Baal, and they made it into a latrine, even to this day.stylusEzra 6:11, Daniel 3:29, Daniel 2:5, Ezra 6:11, Daniel 3:2928And thus did Jehu wipe away Baal from Israel.stylus29Yet truly, he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. Neither did he forsake the golden calves, which were in Bethel and Dan.stylus1 Kings 12:28, 1 Kings 12:30, 1 Kings 12:28, 1 Kings 12:30, 1 Kings 14:1630Then the Lord said to Jehu: “Since you have diligently carried out what was right and pleasing in my eyes, and since you have accomplished, against the house of Ahab, all that was in my heart, your sons shall sit upon the throne of Israel, even to the fourth generation.”stylus2 Kings 10:35, 2 Kings 10:35, 2 Kings 13:1, 2 Kings 13:1, 2 Kings 14:2331But Jehu did not take care, so that he might walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart. For he did not withdraw from the sins of Jeroboam, who had caused Israel to sin.stylus2 Kings 10:29, 2 Kings 10:29, Proverbs 4:23, Proverbs 4:23, Hebrews 2:132In those days, the Lord began to be weary of Israel. And Hazael struck them throughout all the parts of Israel,stylus2 Kings 8:12, 1 Kings 19:17, 2 Kings 8:12, 1 Kings 19:17, 2 Kings 13:2233from the Jordan opposite the eastern region, in all the land of Gilead, and Gad, and Reuben, and Manasseh, from Aroer, which is above the torrent Arnon, in both Gilead and Bashan.stylusAmos 1:3, Amos 1:4, Amos 1:3, Amos 1:4, Deuteronomy 2:3634But the rest of the words of Jehu, and all that he did, and his strength, have these not been written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?stylus2 Kings 13:8, 1 Kings 14:19, 2 Kings 12:19, 1 Kings 14:29, 1 Kings 11:4135And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz, his son, reigned in his place.stylus1 Kings 14:20, 2 Kings 13:1, 1 Kings 2:10, 1 Kings 14:31, 2 Samuel 7:1236Now the days during which Jehu reigned over Israel, in Samaria, were twenty-eight years.stylus