2 Kings 10:29-33

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 10:29-36

Here is all the account of the reign of Jehu, though it continued twenty-eight years. The progress of it answered not to the glory of its beginning. We have here, I. God's approbation of what Jehu had done. Many, it is probable, censured him as treacherous and barbarous?called him a rebel, a usurper, a murderer, and prognosticated ill concerning him, that a family thus raised would soon be ruined; but God said, Well done (2 Kgs. 10:30), and then it signified little who said otherwise. 1. God... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 10:29

Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin ,.... Which is the common character given of that king, a blot never to be wiped off: Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan : he did not abstain from the worship of them, partly because he might not think it idolatry, because God was worshipped in them; hence he calls the worshippers of the calves the servants of the Lord, 2 Kings 10:23 , and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 10:30

And the Lord said unto Jehu ,.... By a prophet, he not being one himself; and this is generally supposed, by the Jews F23 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 19. , to be Jonah the son of Amittai: because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes : in rooting out the idolatry of Baal, which was right in the sight of God, and was materially a good work, though it might not be done from a good principle, nor every step taken in doing it justifiable: and hast done unto the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 10:31

But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart ,.... As to his moral conversation, he was not careful that it was according to the law of God, and what he did agreeable to it, it was not sincerely, and from the right principle: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin ; which he would, if he had had a cordial respect to all the commandments of the law. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 10:32

In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short ,.... To bring their dominions into a narrower compass; this was done in the days of Jehu, though he was so active and courageous, wherefore the hand of God was the more seen in it: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel ; which bordered on his country, when he did what Elisha foretold he would, 2 Kings 8:12 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 10:33

From Jordan eastward ,.... This was principally the coast on which Hazael smote them, to the east of the land of Canaan: all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Moabites ; the country on the other side Jordan, given to these tribes by Moses, at their request, which were before the kingdoms of Sihon and of Og: from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan : countries which the Israelites first conquered, and were the first they lost. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 10:30

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. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 10:31

Jehu took no heed - He never made it his study; indeed, he never intended to walk in this way; it neither suited his disposition nor his politics. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 10:32

The Lord began to cut Israel short - The marginal reading is best: The Lord cut off the ends; and this he did by permitting Hazael to seize on the coasts, to conquer and occupy the frontier towns. This was the commencement of those miserable ravages which Elisha predicted; see 2 Kings 8:12 . And we find from the next verse that he seized on all the land of Gilead, and that of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh; in a word, whatever Israel possessed on the east side... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 10:1-36

THE REIGN OF JEHU OVER ISRAEL . read more

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