2Kings:10:18-36
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Then Jehu gathered all the people together ,
and said to them , "
Ahab served Baal a little ,
Jehu will serve him much .
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Now therefore ,
call to me all the prophets of Baal ,
all his servants ,
and all his priests .
Let no one be missing ,
for I have a great sacrifice for Baal .
Whoever is missing shall not live ."
But Jehu acted deceptively ,
with the intent of destroying the worshipers of Baal .
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And Jehu said , "
Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal ."
So they proclaimed it .
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Then Jehu sent throughout all Israel ;
and all the worshipers of Baal came ,
so that there was not a man left who did not come .
So they came into the temple of Baal ,
and the temple of Baal was full from one end to the other .
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And he said to the one in charge of the wardrobe , "
Bring out vestments for all the worshipers of Baal ."
So he brought out vestments for them .
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Then Jehu and Jehonadab the son of Rechab went into the temple of Baal ,
and said to the worshipers of Baal , "
Search and see that no servants of the LORD are here with you ,
but only the worshipers of Baal ."
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So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings .
Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men on the outside ,
and had said , "
If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escapes ,
whoever lets him escape ,
it shall be his life for the life of the other ."
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Now it happened ,
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 kill them ;
let no one come out !"
And they killed them with the edge of the sword ;
then the guards and the officers threw them out ,
and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal .
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And they brought the sacred pillars out of the temple of Baal and burned them .
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Then they broke down the sacred pillar of Baal ,
and tore down the temple of Baal and made it a refuse dump to this day .
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Thus Jehu destroyed Baal from Israel .
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However Jehu did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat ,
who had made Israel sin ,
that is ,
from the golden calves that were at Bethel and Dan .
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And the LORD said to Jehu , "
Because you have done well in doing what is right in My sight ,
and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart ,
your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation ."
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But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart ;
for he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam ,
who had made Israel sin .
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In those days the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel ;
and Hazael conquered them in all the territory of Israel
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from the Jordan eastward :
all the land of Gilead--Gad ,
Reuben ,
and Manasseh--from Aroer ,
which is by the River Arnon ,
including Gilead and Bashan .
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Now the rest of the acts of Jehu ,
all that he did ,
and all his might ,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel ?
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So Jehu rested with his fathers ,
and they buried him in Samaria .
Then Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place .
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And the period that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years .
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