2Kings:10:1-17

geneva@2Kings:10:1 @ And Ahab had seventy (note:)The Scripture calls them sons who are either children or nephews.(:note) 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,

geneva@2Kings:10:2 @ Nowe when this letter commeth to you, (for ye haue with you your masters sonnes, yee haue with you both charets and horses, and a defenced citie, and armour)

geneva@2Kings:10:3 @ Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and (note:)He wrote this, to prove them whether they would take his side or not.(:note) set [him] on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.

geneva@2Kings:10:4 @ But they were exceedingly afraid, and saide, Behold two Kings coulde not stande before him, how shall we then stand?

geneva@2Kings:10:5 @ And he that was gouernour of Ahabs house, and he that ruled the citie, and the Elders, & the bringers vp of the children sent to Iehu, saying, We are thy seruants, and will doe all that thou shalt bid vs: we will make no King: do what seemeth good to thee.

geneva@2Kings:10:6 @ Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye [be] mine, and [if] ye will hearken unto my voice, (note:)God as a just judge punishes the wicked children of wicked parents to the third and fourth generations.(:note) 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.

geneva@2Kings:10:7 @ And when the letter came to them, they tooke the Kings sonnes, and slewe the seuentie persons, and layde their heads in baskets, and sent them vnto him to Izreel.

geneva@2Kings:10:8 @ Then there came a messenger and tolde him, saying, They haue brought the heads of the Kings sonnes; he sayd, Let them lay them on two heapes at the entring in of the gate vntil the morning.

geneva@2Kings:10:9 @ And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye [be] (note:)You cannot justly condemn me for the king's death, seeing as you have done the same to his posterity: for the Lord commanded me, and moved you to carry out his judgment.(:note) righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?

geneva@2Kings:10:10 @ Knowe nowe that there shal fall vnto the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the Lorde hath brought to passe the things that hee spake by his seruant Eliiah.

geneva@2Kings:10:11 @ So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his (note:)Meaning, the idolatrous priests.(:note) priests, until he left him none remaining.

geneva@2Kings:10:12 @ And he arose, and departed and came to Samaria. And as Iehu was in the way by an house where the shepheards did shere,

geneva@2Kings:10:13 @ He met with the brethre of Ahaziah king of Iudah, and sayd, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah, and goe downe to salute the children of the King and the children of the Queene.

geneva@2Kings:10:14 @ 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; (note:)Thus God's vengeance is on them who have any part or familiarity with the wicked.(:note) neither left he any of them.

geneva@2Kings:10:15 @ And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he (note:)For he feared God, and lamented the wickedness of those times: therefore Jehu was glad to join with him: of Rechab read (Jer_35:2).(:note) 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.

geneva@2Kings:10:16 @ And he sayde, Come with me, and see the zeale that I haue for the Lord: so they made him ride in his charet.

geneva@2Kings:10:17 @ And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained vnto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the worde of the Lord, which he spake to Eliiah.

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