2 Kings 10:17 BSB — MannaFest

2 Kings 10:17

When Jehu came to Samaria, he struck down everyone belonging to Ahab who remained there, until he had destroyed them, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to Elijah.

BSB

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ASV

And when he came to Samaria, he smote all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake to Elijah.

KJV

And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the Lord, which he spake to Elijah.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Compare 2Ki 10:11. Thus was finally completed the political revolution which transferred the throne from the house of Omri to that of Nimshi, the fifth of the royal families of Israel. According to the saying of the Lord - This emphatic reiteration (compare 2Ki 10:10) marks, first, how in the mind of the writer all this history is viewed as deriving its special interest from its being so full and complete an accomplishment of Elijah’s prophecies; and, secondly, how at the time Jehu carefully put forward the plea that what he did had this object.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This was bloody work, and is not now, in any case, to be drawn into a precedent. Let the guilty suffer, but not the guiltless for their sakes. Perhaps such terrible destructions as these were intended as types of the final destruction of all the ungodly.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Jehonadab the son of Rechab--(See 1Ch 2:55). A person who, from his piety and simple primitive manner of life (Jer 35:1-19), was highly esteemed, and possessed great influence in the country.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּבֹא֙	vai.ya.Vo'	and he came	H935 →
שֹֽׁמְר֔וֹן	sho.me.Ron	Samaria	H8111 →
וַ֠יַּךְ	Vai.yakh	and he struck down	H5221 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הַנִּשְׁאָרִ֧ים	ha.nish.'a.Rim	those [who] remained	H7604 →
לְאַחְאָ֛ב	le.'ach.'Av	of Ahab	H256 →
בְּשֹׁמְר֖וֹן	be.sho.me.Ron	in Samaria	H8111 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
הִשְׁמִיד֑וֹ	hish.mi.Do	he had destroyed him	H8045 →
כִּדְבַ֣ר	kid.Var	according to [the] word of	H1697 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
דִּבֶּ֖ר	di.Ber	he had spoken	H1696 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
אֵלִיָּֽהוּ׃ פ	'e.li.Ya.hu	Elijah	H452 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Kings 9:8
The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.
leads to
- 2 Kings 14:26
  For the LORD saw that the affliction of the Israelites, both slave and free, was very bitter. There was no one to help Israel,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Samuel 25:22
  May God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one of Nabal’s men survive until morning.”
- Deuteronomy 32:36
  For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
Through
1 Kings 21:21
This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.
leads to
- 1 Kings 14:10
  Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house…
- 2 Kings 10:1–7
  Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:
- 2 Kings 10:30
  Nevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart,…
- 1 Samuel 25:34
  Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal…
Through
2 Chronicles 22:8
So while Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the rulers of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers who were serving Ahaziah, and he killed them.
leads to
- 2 Kings 10:10–14
  Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.”

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About 2 Kings

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About 2 Kings