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2 Kings 10:27
2 Kings 10:27
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2 Kings 10 — Overview2 Kings 10 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleWe have in this chapter, I. A further account of Jehu's execution of
his commission. He cut off, 1. All Ahab's sons, ver. 1-10. 2. All
Ahab's kindred, ver. 11-14, 17. 3. Ahab's idolatry: his zeal against
this…2 Kings 10 — Overview2 Kings 10 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledge2 Kings 10:1, Jehu, by his letters, causes seventy of Ahab’s children to be beheaded; 2 Kings 10:8, He excuses the fact by the prophecy of Elijah; 2 Kings 10:12, At the shearing house he slays two and forty of Ahaziah’s…2 Kings 10 — Overview2 Kings 10 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter gives a further account of the destruction of the house of Ahab by Jehu, or his orders, even of all his sons and relations, 2Ki 10:1, and also of the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, 2Ki 10:12, of his…2 Kings 10:15-282 Kings 10:15-28 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleJehu, pushing on his work, is here,
I. Courting the friendship of a good man, Jehonadab the son of Rechab,
v. 15, 16. This Jehonadab, though mortified to the world and meddling
little with the business of it (as…2 Kings 10:272 Kings 10:27 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgebrake down the image: 2 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 23:7-14; Leviticus 26:30; Deuteronomy 7:5, Deuteronomy 7:25; 1 Kings 16:32; 2 Chronicles 34:3-7
made it a draught house: This was an ancient mode of degradation, which still…