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2 Kings 10:30

in 2 Kings 10

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, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Jehovah said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, thy sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.

KJV

And the Lord said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.

This verse in 2 Kings 10

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Thy children of the fourth generation - These four descendants of Jehu were Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Jeroboam the second, and Zechariah; see 2 Kings 14 and 15. This was all the compensation Jehu had in either world, as a recompense of his zeal for the Lord.

This site's exposition

thy children of the fourth generation shall sit

The Lord's own commendation credits Jehu for doing what was right in executing judgment on Ahab's house, and promises four generations on Israel's throne as the reward, a dynasty no other northern line receives. That promise is kept to the letter: Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Jeroboam the second, and Zechariah reign in turn before the line ends at 2 Kings 15:12. The reward answers the deed rather than the man, since the very next verse turns to what the deed left undone.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He departed from the sins of Ahab, but not from the sins of Jeroboam--discarded Baal, but adhered to the calves. The worship of Baal was indeed the greater evil, and more heinous in the sight of God, but the worship of the calves was a great evil, and true conversion is not only from gross sin, but from all sin--not only from false gods, but from false worships.
And the Lord said unto Jehu,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

And the Lord said unto Jehu - Probably by the mouth of Elisha. To a certain extent Jehu’s measures were acts of obedience, for which God might see fit to assign him a temporal reward. Thy children ... - This was accomplished in the persons of Jehoahaz, Joash, Jeroboam, and Zachariah, the son, grandson, great-grandson, and great-great-grandson of Jehu (compare the marginal references). No other family sat upon the throne of Israel so long. The house of Omri, which furnished four kings, held the crown for three generations only and for less than 50 years - that of Jehu reigned for five generations and for more than 100 years.

The words behind it

23 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.

  • וַיֹּ֨אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • יְהוָ֜הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • יֵה֗וּאJehu

    yehu'H305858 times

  • יַ֤עַןbecause

    yaanH328299 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • הֱטִיבֹ֙תָ֙you have done well

    hetivotaH2895

  • לַעֲשׂ֤וֹתby doing

    laasotH62132628 times

  • הַיָּשָׁר֙the right

    haiyasharH3477119 times

  • בְּעֵינַ֔יin view my

    beeinaiH5869887 times

  • כְּכֹל֙according to all

    kekholH36055413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רthat

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • בִּלְבָבִ֔י[was] in heart my

    bilvaviH3824252 times

  • עָשִׂ֖יתָyou have done

    ʾasitaH62132628 times

  • לְבֵ֣יתto [the] house of

    leveitH10042046 times

  • אַחְאָ֑בAhab

    ʾachavH25692 times

  • בְּנֵ֣יdescendants of

    beneiH11214930 times

  • רְבִעִ֔ים[the] fourth [generation]

    reviimH724356 times

  • יֵשְׁב֥וּthey will sit

    yeshevuH34271079 times

  • לְךָ֖of you

    lekha

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • כִּסֵּ֥א[the] throne of

    kise'H3678135 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH34782507 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

    1 Kings 21:22

    I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked My anger and caused Israel to sin.’

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 16:3

      So now I will consume Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat:

    • 1 Kings 14:16

      So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”

    • 1 Kings 16:11

      As soon as Zimri began to reign and was seated on the throne, he struck down the entire household of Baasha. He did not leave a single male, whether a kinsman or friend.

    • 1 Kings 12:30

      And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.

    • 1 Kings 15:29–30

      As soon as Baasha became king, he struck down the entire household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone that breathed, but destroyed them all according to the word that the LORD…

  • Through

    2 Kings 10:35

    And Jehu rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and his son Jehoahaz reigned in his place.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 13:7–8

      Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

    • 2 Kings 13:1

      In the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash son of Ahaziah over Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria seventeen years.

    • 1 Kings 2:10

      Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

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