05/02/2021
2 Kings 10
18 And Yěhu gathered all the people and said to them, “Aḥaḇ served Ba‛al a little; Yěhu serves him much.
19 “And now, call to me all the prophets of Ba‛al, all his servants, and all his priests. Let no one be missing, for I have a great slaughtering to make to Ba‛al. Anyone who is lacking shall not live!” But Yěhu did this deceptively, in order to destroy the servants of Ba‛al.
20 And Yěhu said, “Set apart an assembly for Ba‛al.” So they proclaimed it.
21 And Yěhu sent throughout all Yisra’ěl, and all the servants of Ba‛al came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they came into the house of Ba‛al, and the house of Ba‛al was filled from end to end.
22 And he said to him who was over the wardrobe, “Bring out garments for all the servants of Ba‛al.” And he brought out garments for them.
23 And Yěhu and Yehonaḏaḇ son of Rěḵaḇ went into the house of Ba‛al, and said to the servants of Ba‛al, “Search and see that no servants of יהוה are here with you, but only the servants of Ba‛al.”
24 So they went in to make slaughterings and ascending offerings. Now Yěhu had appointed for himself eighty men on the outside, and had said, “The man who lets escape any of the men whom I have brought into your hands – his life for his life!”
25 And it came to be, when he had finished making the ascending offering, Yěhu said to the guard and to the officers, “Go in, strike them, let no one come out!” And they struck them with the edge of the sword, and the guards and the officers threw them out, and went into the inner room of the house of Ba‛al,
26 and brought out the pillars of the house of Ba‛al and burned them,
27 and broke down the statue of Ba‛al, and broke down the house of Ba‛al and made it a latrine to this day.
28 Thus Yěhu destroyed Ba‛al out of Yisra’ěl.
29 However, Yěhu did not turn away from the sins of Yaroḇ‛am son of Neḇat, who had made Yisra’ěl sin, from the golden calves that were at Běyth Ěl and Dan.
30 And יהוה said to Yěhu, “Because you have done well by doing what is right in My eyes, and have done to the house of Aḥaḇ all that was in My heart, your sons are going to sit on the throne of Yisra’ěl to the fourth generation.”
31 But Yěhu did not guard to walk in the Torah of יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ěl with all his heart. For he did not turn away from the sins of Yaroḇ‛am, who had made Yisra’ěl sin.
32 In those days יהוה began to cut off some in Yisra’ěl. And Ḥaza’ěl struck them throughout all the border of Yisra’ěl,
33 from the Yarděn to the sun-rising: all the land of Gil‛aḏ – the Gaḏites, and the Re’uḇěnites, and the Menashshehites – from Aro‛ěr, which is by the wadi Arnon, including Gil‛aḏ and Bashan.
34 And the rest of the acts of Yěhu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra’ěl?
35 So Yěhu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Shomeron. And Yeho’aḥaz his son reigned in his place.
36 And the days that Yěhu reigned over Yisra’ěl in Shomeron were twenty-eight years.
Melaḵim Bĕt (2 Kings) 10:18-36 TS2009
