2 Kings 10:9 BSB — MannaFest

2 Kings 10:9

The next morning, Jehu went out and stood before all the people and said, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him. But who killed all these?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye are righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him; but who smote all these?

KJV

And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Ye be righteous - i. e., “Ye are just, and can judge aright.” Jehu unfairly keeps back the fact that he had commanded the execution.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֤י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
בַבֹּ֙קֶר֙	va.Bo.ker	in the morning	H1242 →
וַיֵּצֵ֣א	vai.ye.Tze'	and he went out	H3318 →
וַֽיַּעֲמֹ֔ד	vai.ya.'a.Mod	and he stood	H5975 →
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הָעָ֔ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
צַדִּקִ֖ים	tza.di.Kim	[are] righteous	H6662 →
אַתֶּ֑ם	'a.Tem	you	H859 →
הִנֵּ֨ה	hi.Neh	here!	H2009 →
אֲנִ֜י	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
קָשַׁ֤רְתִּי	ka.Shar.ti	I conspired	H7194 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
אֲדֹנִי֙	'a.do.Ni	master my	H113 →
וָאֶהְרְגֵ֔הוּ	va.'eh.re.Ge.hu	and I killed him	H2026 →
וּמִ֥י	u.Mi	and who?	H4310 →
הִכָּ֖ה	hi.Kah	did he strike down	H5221 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
אֵֽלֶּה׃	'E.leh	these	H428 →

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The walk

The walk8

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
1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a…
leads to
- Acts 20:33
  I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.
- Numbers 16:15
  Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not regard their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”
- 1 Peter 5:2
  Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is God’s will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness;
- Deuteronomy 16:19
  Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
- 1 Samuel 24:6
  So he said to his men, “The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the LORD’s anointed. May I never lift my hand against him, since he is the…
Through
Hosea 1:4
Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
leads to
- 2 Kings 10:7–8
  And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.
- 2 Kings 10:10–11
  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.”
- Jeremiah 3:8
  She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.