Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 10:9

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 10:9 - 10:9

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 10:9 - 10:9

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10:1 - 10:1
10:5 - 10:5
10:6 - 10:6
10:8 - 10:8
10:9 - 10:9
10:13 - 10:13
10:15 - 10:15
10:18 - 10:18
10:19 - 10:19
10:22 - 10:22
10:29 - 10:29

said to all the people, Ye be righteous, etc. - A great concourse was assembled to gaze on this novel and ghastly spectacle. The speech which Jehu addressed to the spectators was artfully framed to impress their minds with the idea that so wholesale a massacre was the result of the divine judgments denounced on the house of Ahab; and the effect of it was to prepare the public mind for hearing, without horror, of a similar revolting tragedy which was soon after perpetrated, namely, the extinction of all the influential friends and supporters of the dynasty of Ahab, including those of the royal house of Judah.