nsb - 2Kings:10:18-36

nsb@2Kings:10:18 @ Jehu assembled all the people and said to them: »Ahab was Baal's servant in a small way, but Jehu will be his servant on a great scale.

nsb@2Kings:10:19 @ »Now send for all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and priests, to come to me. Let no one stay away for I have a great offering to make to Baal. Anyone who is not present will be put to death.« Jehu did this with deceit. It was his purpose to destroy the servants of Baal.

nsb@2Kings:10:20 @ Jehu said: »Let there be a special holy meeting for the worship of Baal.« So a public statement was made.

nsb@2Kings:10:21 @ Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the servants of Baal came, not one kept away. They entered the house of Baal. It was full from one end to the other end.

nsb@2Kings:10:22 @ Jehu said to the keeper of the robes: »Get out robes for all the servants of Baal.« So he got out robes for them.

nsb@2Kings:10:23 @ Jehu, with Jehonadab, the son of Rechab, went into the house of Baal. He said to the servants of Baal: »Make a search with care, to see that no servant of Jehovah is with you, but only servants of Baal.«

nsb@2Kings:10:24 @ They went in to make offerings and burned offerings. Jehu put eighty men outside. He told them: »If any man whom I give into your hands escapes, he who lets him go will forfeit his own life for that life.«

nsb@2Kings:10:25 @ As soon as he finished offering the burned offering Jehu said to the armed men and the captains: »Go in and put them to death! Do not let one come out!« So they put them to the sword. Pulling the images to the ground, they went into the holy place of the house of Baal.

nsb@2Kings:10:26 @ They removed the image of Asherah from the house of Baal and burned it.

nsb@2Kings:10:27 @ The altar of Baal was pulled down and the house of Baal was broken up and made an unclean place, as it is to this day.

nsb@2Kings:10:28 @ Jehu put an end to the worship of Baal in Israel.

nsb@2Kings:10:29 @ But Jehu did not keep himself from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and the evil he made Israel do. The gold calves were still worshiped in Bethel and in Daniel.

nsb@2Kings:10:30 @ Jehovah said to Jehu: »You have done well by doing what is right in my eyes. You carried out my purpose for the family of Ahab. Therefore your sons will be kings of Israel to the fourth generation.«

nsb@2Kings:10:31 @ But Jehu did not take care to keep the law of Jehovah with all his heart. He did not keep himself from the sin that Jeroboam did and made Israel do.

nsb@2Kings:10:32 @ Jehovah began to reduce the size of Israel's territory. King Hazael of Syria conquered all the Israelite territory

nsb@2Kings:10:33 @ east of the Jordan, as far south as the town of Aroer on the Arnon River. This included the territories of Gilead and Bashan, where the tribes of Gad, Reuben, and East Manasseh lived.

nsb@2Kings:10:34 @ Everything else that Jehu did, including his brave deeds, is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:10:35 @ He died and was buried in Samaria. His son Jehoahaz succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Kings:10:36 @ Jehu had ruled in Samaria as king of Israel for twenty-eight years.