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righteous. Indeed I conspired against my mas- servants of the LORD are here with you, but
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ter and killed him; but who killed all these? only the worshipers of Baal.” So they went in
10 Know now that nothing shall fall to the earth to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now
of the word of the LORD which the LORD spoke Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men on
concerning the house of Ahab; for the LORD the outside, and had said, “If any of the men
has done what He spoke by His servant whom I have brought into your hands escapes,
Elijah.” So Jehu killed all who remained of whoever lets him escape, it shall be his life for
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the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great the life of the other.”
men and his close acquaintances and his 25 Now it happened, as soon as he had made
priests, until he left him none remaining. an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu
12 And he arose and departed and went to Sa- said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in
maria. On the way, at Beth Eked of the and kill them; let no one come out!” And they
Shepherds, Jehu met with the brothers of killed them with the edge of the sword; then
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Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, “Who are you?” the guards and the officers threw them out,
So they answered, “We are the brothers of and went into the inner room of the temple of
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Ahaziah; we have come down to greet the Baal. And they brought the sacred pillars out
sons of the king and the sons of the queen of the temple of Baal and burned them. Then
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mother.” they broke down the sacred pillar of Baal, and
14 And he said, “Take them alive!” So they tore down the temple of Baal and made it a
took them alive, and killed them at the well of refuse dump to this day. Thus Jehu de-
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Beth Eked, forty-two men; and he left none of stroyed Baal from Israel.
them. 29 However Jehu did not turn away from the
15 Now when he departed from there, he met sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had
Jehonadab the son of Rechab, coming to meet made Israel sin, that is, from the golden calves
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him; and he greeted him and said to him, “Is that were at Bethel and Dan. And the LORD
your heart right, as my heart is toward your said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in
heart?” doing what is right in My sight, and have done
And Jehonadab answered, “It is.” to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart,
Jehu said, “If it is, give me your hand.” So he your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to
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gave him his hand, and he took him up to him the fourth generation.” But Jehu took no
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into the chariot. Then he said, “Come with heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Is-
me, and see my zeal for the LORD.” So they rael with all his heart; for he did not depart
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had him ride in his chariot. And when he from the sins of Jeroboam, who had made Is-
came to Samaria, he killed all who remained to rael sin.
Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed them, 32 In those days the LORD began to cut off parts
according to the word of the LORD which He of Israel; and Hazael conquered them in all the
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spoke to Elijah. territory of Israel from the Jordan eastward: all
18 Then Jehu gathered all the people togeth- the land of Gilead—Gad, Reuben, and Manas-
er, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little, seh—from Aroer, which is by the River Arnon,
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Jehu will serve him much. Now therefore, including Gilead and Bashan.
call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his ser- 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, all that he
vants, and all his priests. Let no one be missing, did, and all his might, are they not written in
for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is the book of the chronicles of the kings of Is-
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missing shall not live.” But Jehu acted decep- rael? So Jehu rested with his fathers, and they
tively, with the intent of destroying the wor- buried him in Samaria. Then Jehoahaz his son
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shipers of Baal. And Jehu said, “Proclaim a reigned in his place. And the period that Jehu
solemn assembly for Baal.” So they proclaimed reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-
it. Then Jehu sent throughout all Israel; and eight years.
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all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there Psalm 72:17–20
was not a man left who did not come. So they
came into the temple of Baal, and the temple of 17 His name shall endure forever;
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Baal was full from one end to the other. And His name shall continue as long as
he said to the one in charge of the wardrobe, the sun.
“Bring out vestments for all the worshipers of And men shall be blessed in Him;
Baal.” So he brought out vestments for them. All nations shall call Him blessed.
23 Then Jehu and Jehonadab the son of Rechab
went into the temple of Baal, and said to the 18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God
worshipers of Baal, “Search and see that no of Israel,
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