Skip to content
mannafest.faith

2 Kings 10:17

in 2 Kings 10

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

The same verse in ASV and KJV

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.

This verse in 2 Kings 10

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
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.

This site's exposition

according to the saying of the Lord

Samaria receives the same treatment Jezreel already received, every survivor connected to Ahab's house put to death. The narrator repeats the phrase from verse ten almost exactly, according to the saying of the Lord, which he spake to Elijah, tying the whole campaign back to the sentence pronounced in the vineyard at Naboth's death. The dynasty of Omri that began with a purchased hill in chapter sixteen ends with a purchased throne handed to Nimshi's grandson.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

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.
And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria,.... All that were in any connection with him, as related to his family, or as ministers of his in civil or religious things: till he had destroyed him; his whole house, as he was ordered: according to the word of the Lord, which he spake to Elijah; which is observed, to show the exact fulfilment of prophecy, see 1Ki 21:21.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Contriving the destruction of all the worshippers of Baal. The service of Baal was the crying sin of the house of Ahab: that root of this idolatry was plucked up, but multitudes yet remained that were infected with it, and would be in danger of infecting others.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

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.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּבֹא֙and he came

    vaiyavo'H9352568 times

  • שֹֽׁמְר֔וֹןSamaria

    shomeronH8111109 times

  • וַ֠יַּךְand he struck down

    vaiyakhH5221499 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • הַנִּשְׁאָרִ֧יםthose [who] remained

    hanisharimH7604133 times

  • לְאַחְאָ֛בof Ahab

    leachavH25692 times

  • בְּשֹׁמְר֖וֹןin Samaria

    beshomeronH8111109 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H57041261 times

  • הִשְׁמִיד֑וֹhe had destroyed him

    hishmidoH804590 times

  • כִּדְבַ֣רaccording to [the] word of

    kidvarH16971440 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • דִּבֶּ֖רhe had spoken

    diberH16961141 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • אֵלִיָּֽהוּ׃ פElijah

    ʾeliyahuH45271 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • 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.

    it 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 separate 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.

    it 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.

    it 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.”

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.