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Executioners of Evil-Doers
1Ki 16:1-14
A noble figure crosses the canvas for a moment. It is Jehu, the son of Hanani, shining like a star in the night. No age has been without its prophets; no life, however abandoned, has been without some remonstrating voice; no soul goes over the cataract without a warning cry. And these messages, answering to the voice of conscience within, reveal the pitying love of the Father, not willing that any should perish, Eze 18:23. Hanani, Jehu’s father, had been a prophet, 2Ch 16:7, and Jehu held the same office for a long period, 2Ch 19:2; 2Ch 20:34.
Baasha died in peace and was buried in state. But such an end is not the end, and points forward to another life, since God is God, Psa 17:14. Elah and the remainder of the royal house were cut off by Zimri, and the extermination was so complete that none of his avengers were left. But Zimri, after a reign of seven days, was similarly treated, 2Ki 9:31. Seven days are long enough to test a man, and in that brief space Zimri found time to walk in the way of Jeroboam and his sin, 1Ki 16:15; 1Ki 16:19. Such is the course of this world. Happy are they who, amid political convulsion, live the life of the quiet in the land, 1Th 4:11, and receive the kingdom that cannot be moved, Heb 12:27.