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2 Kings 10:23
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Jehonadab: 2 Kings 10:15
the worshippers: Matthew 13:30, Matthew 13:41, Matthew 25:32, Matthew 25:33
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:6 - Abner
Cross-References
There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of complete integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil.
There was a man in the land of `Utz, whose name was Iyov. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
A man named Job lived in the land of Uz. He was an honest and innocent man; he honored God and stayed away from evil.
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God [with reverence] and abstained from and turned away from evil [because he honored God].
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
There was a man in the lande of Vz called Iob, & this man was an vpright and iust man, one that feared God, and eschewed euill.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal,.... Who no doubt was led into the secret, and knew the design of Jehu, or he would not have gone into such an idolatrous place:
and said unto the worshippers of Baal, search and look, that there be here with you none of the servants of the Lord, but the worshippers of Baal only; pretending a great regard to the purity of their worship and sacrifices, that they might not be profaned t by the company of such who were not worshippers of Baal, but of Jehovah; whereas his view was to prevent any of the worshippers of God perishing with them, who might out of curiosity go in among them, to behold the manner of their service.
t "----procul, o procul este profani". Virgil. Aeneid. 6. ver. 258.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The presence of persons belonging to another religion was usually regarded by the ancients as a profanation of the rites. In the case of the Greek mysteries such intrusion is said to have been punished by death. Consequently Jehu could give these injunctions without arousing any suspicion.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Kings 10:23. None of the servants of the Lord — Though he was not attached to that service, yet he would tolerate it; and as he was led to suppose that he was fulfilling the will of Jehovah in what he was doing, he would of course treat his worship and worshippers with the more respect.
He might have ordered the search to be made on pretense of expelling any of those whom they would consider the profane, especially as this was "a solemn assembly for Baal," as was the custom with the heathen when any extraordinary exhibition of or for their god was expected; thus Callimachus, (Hymn to Apollo,) after imagining the temple and its suburbs to be shaken by the approach of Apollo, cries out, ÎκαÏ, εÌκαÏ, οÌÏÏιÏ, αλιÏÏοÏ. To prevent any suspicion of his real design, such might have been Jehu's plea, else alarm must have been excited, and perhaps some would have escaped.
