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10:18 Jehu <03058> assembled <06908> all <03605> the people <05971> and said <0559> to <0413> them, “Ahab <0256> worshiped <05647> Baal <01168> a little <04592>; Jehu <03058> will worship <05647> him with great devotion <07235>. 10:19 So now <06258>, bring <07121> to me all <03605> the prophets <05030> of Baal <01168>, as well as all <03605> his servants <05647> and priests <03548>. None <0408> <0376> of them must be absent <06485>, for <03588> I am offering a great <01419> sacrifice <02077> to Baal <01168>. Any <03605> of them who <0834> fail to appear <06485> will lose <03808> their lives <02421>.” But Jehu <03058> was tricking <06122> <06213> them so <04616> he could destroy <06> the servants <05647> of Baal <01168>. 10:20 Then Jehu <03058> ordered <0559>, “Make arrangements <06942> for a celebration <06116> for Baal <01168>.” So they announced <07121> it. 10:21 Jehu <03058> sent <07971> invitations <0935> throughout <03605> Israel <03478>, and all <03605> the servants <05647> of Baal <01168> came <0935>; not <03808> one <0376> was absent <07604>. They arrived <0935> at the temple <01004> of Baal <01168> and filled <04390> it <01168> <01004> up from end <06310> to end <06310>. 10:22 Jehu ordered <0559> the one who <0834> was in charge <05921> of the wardrobe <04458>, “Bring out <03318> robes <03830> for all <03605> the servants <05647> of Baal <01168>.” So he brought out <03318> robes <04403> for them. 10:23 Then Jehu <03058> and Jehonadab <03082> son <01121> of Rekab <07394> went <0935> to the temple <01004> of Baal <01168>. Jehu said <0559> to the servants <05647> of Baal <01168>, “Make sure <07200> <02664> there <03426> are no <06435> servants <05650> of the Lord <03068> here <06311> with you; there must be only <0905> servants <05647> of Baal <01168>.” 10:24 They went <0935> inside to offer <06213> sacrifices <02077> and burnt offerings <05930>. Now Jehu <03058> had stationed <07760> eighty <08084> men <0376> outside <02351>. He <0376> had told <0559> them, “If any of the men <0376> inside get away <04422>, you will pay with <08478> your lives <05315> <05315>!” 10:25 When <01961> he finished <03615> offering <06213> the burnt sacrifice <05930>, Jehu <03058> ordered <0559> the royal guard <07323> and officers <07991>, “Come <0935> in and strike <05221> them down <05221>! Don’t <0408> let any <0376> escape <03318>!” So the royal guard <07323> and officers <07991> struck <05221> them down <05221> with the sword <02719> and left <07993> their bodies lying there. Then they entered <01980> the inner sanctuary <05892> of the temple <01004> of Baal <01168>. 10:26 They hauled out <03318> the sacred pillar <04676> of the temple <01004> of Baal <01168> and burned <08313> it. 10:27 They demolished <05422> the sacred pillar <04676> of Baal <01168> and the temple <01004> of Baal <01168>; it is used as <07760> a latrine <04163> to <05704> this very day <03117>. 10:28 So Jehu <03058> eradicated <08045> Baal <01168> worship from Israel <03478>.

• 2Ki 10:18-28 -- Jehu Executes the Prophets and Priests of Baal

• WORSHIP

  [isbe] WORSHIP - wur'-ship (Anglo-Saxon: weorthscipe, wyrthscype, "honor," from weorth, wurth, "worthy," "honorable," and scipe, "ship"): 1. Terms 2. Old Testament Worship 3. New Testament Worship 4. Public Christian Worship LITERA...
  

• Post

  [ebd] (1.) A runner, or courier, for the rapid transmission of letters, etc. (2 Chr. 30:6; Esther 3:13, 15; 8:10, 14; Job 9:25; Jer. 51:31). Such messengers were used from very early times. Those employed by the Hebrew kings had a...
  

• Jehu

  [ebd] Jehovah is he. (1.) The son of Obed, and father of Azariah (1 Chr. 2:38). (2.) One of the Benjamite slingers that joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:3). (3.) The son of Hanani, a prophet of Judah (1 Kings 16:1, 7; 2 Chr. 19:2...
  [isbe] JEHU - je'-hu (yehu; meaning uncertain, perhaps "Yahweh is he"; 1 Ki 19:16,17; 2 Ki 9; 10; Eiou): Son of Jehoshaphat, and descendant of Nimshi, hence, commonly called "the son of Nimshi"; 10th king of Israel, and founder of ...
  [nave] JEHU 1. The prophet who aounced the wrath of Jehovah against Baasha, king of Israel, 1 Kin. 16:1, 7, 12; 2 Chr. 19:2; 20:34. 2. Son of Nimshi, king of Israel, 1 Kin. 19:16; 2 Kin. 9:1-14. Religious zeal of, in slaying idol...
  

• JEHONADAB

  [ebd] Jehovah is liberal; or, whom Jehovah impels. (1.) A son of Shimeah, and nephew of David. It was he who gave the fatal wicked advice to Amnon, the heir to the throne (2 Sam. 13:3-6). He was very "subtil," but unprincipled. (2...
  [isbe] JEHONADAB - je-hon'-a-dab (yehonadhabh, either "Yahweh is noble" or "liberal," or "Yahweh has impelled") = Jonadab (yonadhabh, same meaning): (1) Jehonadab in the Hebrew of 2 Sam 13:5; but Jonadab in English Versions of the ...
  

• Idol

  [ebd] (1.) Heb. aven, "nothingness;" "vanity" (Isa. 66:3; 41:29; Deut. 32:21; 1 Kings 16:13; Ps. 31:6; Jer. 8:19, etc.). (2.) 'Elil, "a thing of naught" (Ps. 97:7; Isa. 19:3); a word of contempt, used of the gods of Noph (Ezek. 30...
  

• GUARD

  [ebd] (1.) Heb. tabbah (properly a "cook," and in a secondary sense "executioner," because this office fell to the lot of the cook in Eastern countries), the bodyguard of the kings of Egypt (Gen. 37:36) and Babylon (2 Kings 25:8; ...
  [isbe] GUARD - gard: (1) sar ha-Tabbachim, "captain of the guard," literally, "slaughterers" (Gen 37:36; 39:1; 40:3,1; 41:10,12); rabh Tabbachim (2 Ki 25:8,11,20; Jer 39:9, etc.); rabh tabbachayyah (Dan 2:14); ratsim, "guard," the ...
  

• Fire

  [ebd] (1.) For sacred purposes. The sacrifices were consumed by fire (Gen. 8:20). The ever-burning fire on the altar was first kindled from heaven (Lev. 6:9, 13; 9:24), and afterwards rekindled at the dedication of Solomon's templ...
  

• FACT

  [isbe] FACT - Lit. "a deed." The word occurs only in the heading of the chapter, 2 Ki 10 the King James Version, "Jehu excuseth the fact by the prophecy of Elijah," and in 2 Macc 4:36, with reference to the murder of Onias, "certai...
  

• Ezion-geber

  [ebd] the giant's backbone (so called from the head of a mountain which runs out into the sea), an ancient city and harbour at the north-east end of the Elanitic branch of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Akabah, near Elath or Eloth (Num....
  

• Draught-house

  [ebd] (2 Kings 10:27). Jehu ordered the temple of Baal to be destroyed, and the place to be converted to the vile use of receiving offal or ordure. (Comp. Matt. 15:17.)
  

• Decision

  [nave] DECISION. Deut. 30:19; Josh. 23:8. Josh. 24:15; 1 Sam. 12:20; 1 Kin. 18:21; Psa. 37:34; Psa. 69:13; Prov. 4:25-27; Isa. 50:7; Matt. 24:13 Mark 13:13; Matt. 10:22. Matt. 25:23; Luke 7:23 Matt. 11:6. John 8:31; John 15:4, 5, ...
  

• Confidence

  [nave] CONFIDENCE. Betrayed Instances of: Joshua, by the Gibeonites, Josh. 9:3-15. Eglon, by Ehud, Judg. 3:15-23. Ahimelech, by David, 1 Sam. 21:1-9. Abner, by Joab, 2 Sam. 3:27. Amasa, by Joab, 2 Sam. 20:9, 10. The worship...
  

• CRUEL; CRUELTY

  [isbe] CRUEL; CRUELTY - kroo'-el, kroo'-el-ti 'akhzar, "harsh," "fierce," chamac, "violence"): There are various uses of the word "cruel" in the Old Testament: (a) "the cruel (deadly) venom of asps" (Dt 32:33); (b) spoken of men of...
  

• CHEMARIM

  [isbe] CHEMARIM - kem'-a-rim (kemarim, a plural whose singular komer is not found in the Old Testament): Occurs only once in the text of English Versions of the Bible (Zeph 1:4, the King James Version Chemarims), though the Hebrew ...
  

• CAPTAIN

  [ebd] (1.) Heb. sar (1 Sam. 22:2; 2 Sam. 23:19). Rendered "chief," Gen. 40:2; 41:9; rendered also "prince," Dan. 1:7; "ruler," Judg. 9:30; "governor,' 1 Kings 22:26. This same Hebrew word denotes a military captain (Ex. 18:21; 2 K...
  [isbe] CAPTAIN - kap'-tin: In the King James Version there are no fewer than 13 Hebrew words, and 4 different Greek words, which are rendered by this one English word. In the Revised Version (British and American) some of these are...
  

• CALF, GOLDEN

  [isbe] CALF, GOLDEN - kaf, gol'-d'-n: I. THE NAME II. ANCIENT CALF WORSHIP 1. Narrative of Aaron's Golden Calf 2. Jeroboam's Golden Calves III. ATTITUDE OF ELIJAH TO THE BULL SYMBOLS IV. ATTITUDE OF AMOS AND HOSEA TO THE BULL SYMBO...
  

• BAAL (1)

  [isbe] BAAL (1) - ba'-al: (ba`al; or Baal): The Babylonian Belu or Bel, "Lord," was the title of the supreme god among the Canaanites. I. NAME AND CHARACTER OF BAAL II. ATTRIBUTES OF BAAL III. BAAL-WORSHIP IV. TEMPLES, ETC. V. USE ...
  

• Assyria

  [ebd] the name derived from the city Asshur on the Tigris, the original capital of the country, was originally a colony from Babylonia, and was ruled by viceroys from that kingdom. It was a mountainous region lying to the north of...
  

• Apparel

  [ebd] In Old Testament times the distinction between male and female attire was not very marked. The statute forbidding men to wear female apparel (Deut. 22:5) referred especially to ornaments and head-dresses. Both men and women ...
  

• AHAB

  [isbe] AHAB - a'-hab ('ach'abh, Assyrian a-cha-ab-bu; Septuagint Achaab, but Jer 29:21 f, Achiab, which, in analogy with '-h-y-m-l-k, (')-h-y-'-l, etc., indicates an original 'achi'abh, meaning "the father is my brother"): The comp...
  

• The Ministers of Baal Killed

  

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