2Kings:10:18-36
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And Ju gathered all the people ,
and said to them ,
Achaab served Baal a little ;
Ju shall serve him much .
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Now then do all ye the prophets of Baal call all his servants and his priests to me ;
let not a man be wanting :
for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal ;
every one who shall be missing shall die .
But Ju did it in subtilty ,
that he might destroy the servants of Baal .
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And Ju said ,
Sanctify a solemn festival to Baal ,
and they made a proclamation .
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And Ju sent throughout all Israel ,
saying ,
Now then let all Baal ’
s servants ,
and all his priests ,
and all his prophets come ,
let none be lacking :
for I am (
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Gr .
offering (:
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going to offer a great sacrifice ;
whosoever shall be missing ,
shall not live .
So all the servants of Baal came ,
and all his priests ,
and all his prophets :
there was not one left who came not .
And they entered into the house of Baal ;
and the house of Baal was filled Gr .
mouth to mouth from one end to the other .
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And he said to the man who was over the house of the (
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The Greek is from the Hebrew word (:
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wardrobe ,
Bring forth a robe for all the servants of Baal .
And the keeper of the robes brought forth to them .
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And Ju and Jonadab the son of Rechab entered into the house of Baal ,
and said to the servants of Baal ,
Search ,
and see whether there is among you any of the servants of the Lord ,
or only the servants of Baal ,
by themselves .
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And he went in to offer sacrifices and whole-burnt-offerings ;
and Ju set for himself eighty men without ,
and said ,
Every man who shall escape of the men whom I bring into your hand ,
the life of him that spares him shall go for his life .
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And it came to pass ,
when he had finished offering the whole-burnt-offering ,
that Ju said to the footmen and to the officers ,
Go ye in and slay them ;
let not a man of them escape .
So they smote them with the edge of the sword ,
and the footmen and the officers cast the bodies forth ,
and went to the city of the house of Baal .
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And they brought out the pillar of Baal ,
and burnt it .
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And they tore down the pillars of Baal ,
and made (
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Gr .
him (:
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his house a draught-house until this day .
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So Ju abolished Baal out of Israel .
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Nevertheless Ju departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat ,
who led Israel to sin :
these were the golden heifers in Baethel and in Daniel .
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And the Lord said to Ju ,
Because of all thy deeds wherein thou hast acted well in doing that which was right in my eyes ,
according to all things which thou hast done to the house of Achaab as they were in my heart ,
thy sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel .
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But Ju took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart :
he departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam ,
who made Israel to sin .
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In those days the Lord began to cut (
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Gr .
in Israel ;
Hebraism (:
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Israel short ;
and Azael smote them in every coast of Israel ;
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from Jordan eastward all the land of Galaad belonging to the Gadites ,
of Gaddi and that of Ruben ,
and of Manasses ,
from Aroer ,
which is on the brink of the brook of Arnon ,
and Galaad and Basan .
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And the rest of the acts of Ju ,
and all that he did ,
and all his might ,
and the wars wherein he engaged ,
are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel ?
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And Ju slept with his fathers ;
and they buried him in Samaria :
and Joachaz his son reigned in his stead .
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And the days which Ju reigned over Israel were twenty-eight years in Samaria .
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