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Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.
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A Strategic Deception
Commentators unanimously agree that Jehu's statement is a strategic deception. Having already destroyed Ahab's political power, he now turns to the religious corruption. By pretending to be an even more zealous worshipper of Baal than Ahab, he cleverly lures all the remaining idolaters into a single location to be destroyed, as the subsequent verses show.
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2 Kings
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Though we cannot ascribe a spirit of true piety to Jehu (see 2 Kings 10:29), we can understand well enough how the soldier, trained in …
19th Century
Anglican
Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much. —Ahab had, as the people well knew, served Baal more than a little; but the anti…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Jehu gathered all the people together The people of Samaria, at least the principal of them:
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