Fondare 49 Risultati per: Jehu
At this, they were thrown into consternation; here were two kings swept away by Jehu’s onset, and what resistance could they hope to offer him? (2 Kings 10, 4)
So all of them, guardians of the princes, chieftains and elders, sent word to Jehu, We are thy servants, awaiting thy commands; it is not for us to set up a king; do what is thy pleasure. (2 Kings 10, 5)
and when the letter reached them, they killed all seventy, and sent back their heads in baskets to Jehu at Jezrahel. (2 Kings 10, 7)
Then Jehu put to death all that was left of Achab’s race in Jezrahel, with all that had been nobles, courtiers and priests in his reign, till no trace of him was left. (2 Kings 10, 11)
Next, Jehu called a general assembly of the people, and told them, It was but scant worship Achab paid to Baal; Jehu means to pay him greater worship yet. (2 Kings 10, 18)
Summon me all Baal’s prophets, all his worshippers, all his priests; at this great sacrifice I mean to offer Baal, none must be absent; it is death to the man whose place is found empty. All this was but a design Jehu had in hand, for destroying Baal’s worshippers. (2 Kings 10, 19)
Then Jehu bade the wardrobe-keepers bring out garments for all Baal’s votaries, and when these had been brought, (2 Kings 10, 22)
And where they had entered, there was offering and burnt-sacrifice to be made. Without, Jehu had posted eighty men, telling them, If you let any of my quarry slip through your hands, it shall be life for life. (2 Kings 10, 24)
Thus Jehu abolished the worship of Baal in Israel. (2 Kings 10, 28)
and still this Jehu was too careless to follow the law of Israel’s God with his whole heart, by abandoning the sins of Jeroboam, that taught Israel to sin! (2 Kings 10, 31)
What else Jehu did, all his history and the record of his great deeds, is to be found in the Annals of the kings of Israel. (2 Kings 10, 34)
Joas began his reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and for forty years he reigned as king at Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Sebia, a woman of Bersabee. (2 Kings 12, 1)