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1 And Ahab had seventy sons
in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of
Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab’s children,
saying,
2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to
you, seeing your master’s sons are with you, and there are with
you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
3 Look even out the best and meetest of
your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for
your master’s house.
4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and
said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
5 And he that was over the house,
and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of
the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do
all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is
good in thine eyes.
6 Then he wrote a letter the second time
to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my
voice, take ye the heads of the men your master’s sons, and come to me to
Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king’s sons, being seventy
persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.
7 And it came to pass, when the letter
came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and slew seventy persons, and
put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
8 And there came a messenger, and told
him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king’s sons. And he said, Lay
ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.
9 And it came to pass in the morning, that
he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous:
behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
10 Know now that there shall fall unto the
earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house
of Ahab: for the LORD hath done that which he spake by his servant
Elijah.
11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the
house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his
priests, until he left him none remaining.
12 And he arose and departed, and came to
Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way,
13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah
king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the
brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the
children of the queen.
14 And he said, Take them alive. And they
took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two
and forty men; neither left he any of them.
15 And when he was departed
thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and
he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is
with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine
hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the
chariot.
16 And he said, Come with me, and see my
zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew
all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to
the saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
18 And Jehu gathered all the people
together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall
serve him much.
19 Now therefore call unto me all the
prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting:
for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting,
he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he
might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn
assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and
all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came
not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from
one end to another.
22 And he said unto him that was
over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he
brought them forth vestments.
23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of
Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search,
and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the
worshippers of Baal only.
24 And when they went in to offer
sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If
any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth
him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had
made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to
the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote
them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them
out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
26 And they brought forth the images out
of the house of Baal, and burned them.
27 And they brake down the image of Baal,
and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
29 Howbeit from the
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not
from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel,
and that were in Dan.
30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because
thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and
hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart,
thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the
law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the
sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
32 In those days the LORD began to cut
Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of
Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is
by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
34 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?
35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and
they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
36 And the time that Jehu reigned over
Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
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