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2 Kings 10:9

in 2 Kings 10

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

The same verse in ASV and KJV

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?

This verse in 2 Kings 10

Commentary

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

This site's exposition

Lay ye them in two heaps

on 2 Kings 10:8-10

The heads are heaped at the city gate overnight, a public display meant to warn Samaria before Jehu speaks a word. In the morning Jehu names his own conspiracy against Joram plainly, then asks who struck down the seventy, deflecting blame onto the men who obeyed his letter. His declaration that nothing of the word of the Lord concerning Ahab's house shall fall to the earth names Elijah's prophecy at 1 Kings 21 as the standard by which the killing is measured, not his own ambition.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

, You are righteous ), and, by what the rulers of Samaria had now done, comparatively acquitted himself: "I slew but one; they have slain all these: I did it by conspiracy and with design; they have done this merely in compliance and with an implicit obedience.

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And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Ye be righteous - Another irony, intended partly to excuse himself, and to involve them in the odium of this massacre, and at the same time to justify the conduct of both, by showing that all was done according to the commandment of the Lord.

The words behind it

21 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.

  • וַיְהִ֤יand it was

    vayhiH19613559 times

  • בַבֹּ֙קֶר֙in the morning

    vabokerH1242214 times

  • וַיֵּצֵ֣אand he went out

    vaiyetze'H33181067 times

  • וַֽיַּעֲמֹ֔דand he stood

    vaiyaamodH5975521 times

  • וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙and he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • הָעָ֔םthe people

    haamH59711873 times

  • צַדִּקִ֖ים[are] righteous

    tzadikimH6662

  • אַתֶּ֑םyou

    ʾatemH8591094 times

  • הִנֵּ֨הhere!

    hinehH2009843 times

  • אֲנִ֜יI

    ʾaniH589874 times

  • קָשַׁ֤רְתִּיI conspired

    kashartiH719444 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • אֲדֹנִי֙master my

    ʾadoniH113333 times

  • וָאֶהְרְגֵ֔הוּand I killed him

    vaehregehuH2026167 times

  • וּמִ֥יand who?

    umiH4310423 times

  • הִכָּ֖הdid he strike down

    hikahH5221499 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • אֵֽלֶּה׃these

    ʾelehH428746 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 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…

    it 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.

    it 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.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

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