Jehu was earnest enough in uprooting all traces of Baal-worship, but he permitted the worship of the calves and was careless in the matter of personal religion, 2 Kings 10:31. How much easier it is to see and rebuke the sins of others, than to take heed to our own ways! It is comparatively easy to detect and destroy the sinner, without personally yielding to the claims of God ourselves. The judge who administers the law may be a transgressor of it, and all the more keen in inflicting penalty as if to satisfy his own uneasy conscience. And we who utter God's solemn warnings against sin must not yield in thought to the sins that we denounce in act.
The Israelites were short in their duty to God, and God cut them short in territory, in wealth, and in power. Hazael thus fulfilled Elisha's anticipations, 2 Kings 8:12. Those eastern tribes that were attracted by the fatness of the land and settled there first, were the first to suffer. Those who choose for this life only, are the first to deteriorate and perish. It was so with Lot! [source]
Chapter Summary: 2 Kings 10
1Jehu, by his letters, causes seventy of Ahab's sons to be beheaded 8He excuses the fact by the prophecy of Elijah 12At the shearing house he slays forty-two of Ahaziah's brothers 15He takes Jehonadab into his company 18By subtilty he destroys all the worshippers of Baal 29Jehu follows Jeroboam's sins 32Hazael oppresses Israel 34Jehoahaz succeeds Jehu
What do the individual words in 2 Kings 10:28 mean?
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: שָׁמַד
Sense: to destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated.
Parse: Direct object marker
Root: אֹות
Sense: sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative.
Parse: Preposition-m, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יִשְׂרָאֵל
Sense: the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel.
What are the major concepts related to 2 Kings 10:28?