2Kings:10:18-36
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Then Jehu assembled all the people ,
and said to them , "
Ahab served Ba '
al a little ;
but Jehu will serve him much .
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Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Ba '
al ,
all his worshipers and all his priests ;
let none be missing ,
for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Ba '
al ;
whoever is missing shall not live ."
But Jehu did it with cunning in order to destroy the worshipers of Ba '
al .
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And Jehu ordered , "
Sanctify a solemn assembly for Ba '
al ."
So they proclaimed it .
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And Jehu sent throughout all Israel ;
and all the worshipers of Ba '
al came ,
so that there was not a man left who did not come .
And they entered the house of Ba '
al ,
and the house of Ba '
al was filled from one end to the other .
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He said to him who was in charge of the wardrobe , "
Bring out the vestments for all the worshipers of Ba '
al ."
So he brought out the vestments for them .
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Then Jehu went into the house of Ba '
al with Jehon '
adab the son of Rechab ;
and he said to the worshipers of Ba '
al , "
Search ,
and see that there is no servant of the LORD here among you ,
but only the worshipers of Ba '
al ."
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Then he went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings .
Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside ,
and said , "
The man who allows any of those whom I give into your hands to escape shall forfeit his life ."
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So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering ,
Jehu said to the guard and to the officers , "
Go in and slay them ;
let not a man escape ."
So when they put them to the sword ,
the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Ba '
al
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and they brought out the pillar that was in the house of Ba '
al ,
and burned it .
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And they demolished the pillar of Ba '
al ,
and demolished the house of Ba '
al ,
and made it a latrine to this day .
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Thus Jehu wiped out Ba '
al from Israel .
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But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jerobo '
am the son of Nebat ,
which he made Israel to sin ,
the golden calves that were in Bethel ,
and in Daniel .
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And the LORD said to Jehu , "
Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes ,
and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart ,
your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel ."
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But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD the God of Israel with all his heart ;
he did not turn from the sins of Jerobo '
am ,
which he made Israel to sin .
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In those days the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel .
Haz '
ael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel :
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from the Jordan eastward ,
all the land of Gilead ,
the Gadites ,
and the Reubenites ,
and the Manas '
sites ,
from Aro '
er ,
which is by the valley of the Arnon ,
that is ,
Gilead and Bashan .
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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 ?
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So Jehu slept with his fathers ,
and they buried him in Sama '
ria .
And Jeho '
ahaz his son reigned in his stead .
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The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Sama '
ria was twenty-eight years .
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