2 Kings 10:28
in 2 Kings 10Thus Jehu eradicated Baal from Israel,
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ASV
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
KJV
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
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This verse in 2 Kings 10
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel
on 2 Kings 10:28-29
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel closes one purge in a single sentence, but the next verse opens the limit of it, since Jehu never touches the golden calves Jeroboam set at Bethel and Dan two centuries earlier. The foreign cult Jezebel imported from Tyre is gone; the native counterfeit worship the whole northern kingdom was founded on stays exactly where Jeroboam left it. Jehu's reform reaches every altar built by a queen and stops at the one built by a king.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. His images and temples being served thus in all places, throughout the land of Israel, where there were any.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּשְׁמֵ֥ד | vaiyashmed | and he destroyed | H8045 → | 90 times |
| יֵה֛וּא | yehu' | Jehu | H3058 → | 58 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַבַּ֖עַל | habaal | <the> Baal | H1168 → | 82 times |
| מִיִּשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ | miyisrael | from Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
וַיַּשְׁמֵ֥דand he destroyed
vaiyashmedH8045 →90 times
יֵה֛וּאJehu
yehu'H3058 →58 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַבַּ֖עַל<the> Baal
habaalH1168 →82 times
מִיִּשְׂרָאֵֽל׃from Israel
miyisraelH3478 →2507 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).