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2 Kings 10 📜 📕 ↷
16 and said to him: Come with me, and see my zeal for our Lord. And being set in his chariot,📜💬📚
17 he brought him into Samaria. And he struck all that were left of Achab in Samaria, till there was not one, according to the word of our Lord, which he spake by Elias.📜💬📚
Jehu Kills the Priests of Baal
18 Jehu therefore assembled all the people, & said to them: Achab worshipped Baal a little, but I will worship him more.📜💬📚
19 Now therefore call to me all the Prophets of Baal, and all his servants, and all his Priests: let there be none but that he come, for I have a great sacrifice to Baal: He that shall be wanting shall not live. Moreover Jehu did this craftily, that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.📜💬📚
20 And he said: Sanctify a solemn day to Baal. And he called📜💬📚
21 and sent into all the borders of Israel, and all the servants of Baal came: there was left not one that came not. And they entered into the temple of Baal: and the house of Baal was filled, from one end to the other.📜💬📚
22 And he said to them that were over the garments: Bring forth garments for all the servants of Baal. And they brought them forth garments.📜💬📚
23 And Jehu going in, and Jonadab the son of Rechab into the temple of Baal, said to the worshippers of Baal: Search, and see lest perhaps there be any with you of the servants of the Lord, but that there be the servants of Baal only.📜💬📚
24 They therefore went in to make victims and holocausts: but Jehu had prepared him without fourscore men, and said to them: Whosoever shall escape of these men, whom I will bring into your hands, his life shall be for the life of him.📜💬📚
25 And it came to pass, when the holocaust was ended, Jehu commanded his soldiers and captains: Go in and strike them, let none escape. And the soldiers and captains struck them in the edge of the sword, and cast them forth: and they went into the city of the temple of Baal,📜💬📚
26 and brought forth the statue out of Baal's temple, and burnt it,📜💬📚
27 and brake it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal, & made a jakes for it until this day.📜💬📚
Jehu Repeats Jeroboam's Sins
28 Jehu therefore destroyed Baal out of Israel:📜💬📚
29 but yet from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, he departed not, neither forsook he the golden calves, that were in Bethel, and Dan.📜💬📚
30 And our Lord said to Jehu: Because thou hast diligently done that which was right, and that pleased in mine eyes, and hast done all things that were in my heart, against the house of Achab: thy children shall sit upon the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.📜💬📚
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