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2 Kings 10 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Ahab’s Family Killed

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:1 - Now there were in Samaria seventy sons of the house of Ahab. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria: to the officials of Jezreel,[fn] to the elders and to the guardians of Ahab’s children. He said,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2 - “You have your master’s sons with you and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city and weapons. Now as soon as this letter reaches you,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:3 - choose the best and most worthy of your master’s sons and set him on his father’s throne. Then fight for your master’s house.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:4 - But they were terrified and said, “If two kings could not resist him, how can we?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:5 - So the palace administrator, the city governor, the elders and the guardians sent this message to Jehu: “We are your servants and we will do anything you say. We will not appoint anyone as king; you do whatever you think best.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then Jehu wrote them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side and will obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me in Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the royal princes, seventy of them, were with the leading men of the city, who were rearing them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:7 - When the letter arrived, these men took the princes and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu in Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:8 - When the messenger arrived, he told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the princes.” Then Jehu ordered, “Put them in two piles at the entrance of the city gate until morning.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:9 - The next morning Jehu went out. He stood before all the people and said, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:10 - Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail. The LORD has done what he announced through his servant Elijah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:11 - So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his chief men, his close friends and his priests, leaving him no survivor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:12 - Jehu then set out and went toward Samaria. At Beth Eked of the Shepherds,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:13 - he met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” They said, “We are relatives of Ahaziah, and we have come down to greet the families of the king and of the queen mother.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:14 - “Take them alive!” he ordered. So they took them alive and slaughtered them by the well of Beth Eked—forty-two of them. He left no survivor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:15 - After he left there, he came upon Jehonadab son of Rekab, who was on his way to meet him. Jehu greeted him and said, “Are you in accord with me, as I am with you?” “I am,” Jehonadab answered. “If so,” said Jehu, “give me your hand.” So he did, and Jehu helped him up into the chariot.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:16 - Jehu said, “Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD.” Then he had him ride along in his chariot.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17 - When Jehu came to Samaria, he killed all who were left there of Ahab’s family; he destroyed them, according to the word of the LORD spoken to Elijah.

Servants of Baal Killed

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:18 - Then Jehu brought all the people together and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:19 - Now summon all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests. See that no one is missing, because I am going to hold a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who fails to come will no longer live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:20 - Jehu said, “Call an assembly in honor of Baal.” So they proclaimed it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:21 - Then he sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one stayed away. They crowded into the temple of Baal until it was full from one end to the other.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:22 - And Jehu said to the keeper of the wardrobe, “Bring robes for all the servants of Baal.” So he brought out robes for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:23 - Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went into the temple of Baal. Jehu said to the servants of Baal, “Look around and see that no one who serves the LORD is here with you—only servants of Baal.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:24 - So they went in to make sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had posted eighty men outside with this warning: “If one of you lets any of the men I am placing in your hands escape, it will be your life for his life.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25 - As soon as Jehu had finished making the burnt offering, he ordered the guards and officers: “Go in and kill them; let no one escape.” So they cut them down with the sword. The guards and officers threw the bodies out and then entered the inner shrine of the temple of Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:26 - They brought the sacred stone out of the temple of Baal and burned it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:27 - They demolished the sacred stone of Baal and tore down the temple of Baal, and people have used it for a latrine to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:28 - So Jehu destroyed Baal worship in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:29 - However, he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:30 - The LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in accomplishing what is right in my eyes and have done to the house of Ahab all I had in mind to do, your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:31 - Yet Jehu was not careful to keep the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, which he had caused Israel to commit.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:32 - In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael overpowered the Israelites throughout their territory

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:33 - east of the Jordan in all the land of Gilead (the region of Gad, Reuben and Manasseh), from Aroer by the Arnon Gorge through Gilead to Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:34 - As for the other events of Jehu’s reign, all he did, and all his achievements, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:35 - Jehu rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son succeeded him as king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:36 - The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
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2 Kings Chapter 10 — Additional Translations:

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