Jehu Reigns in Israel
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Thus Jehu wiped out Baal from Israel.
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But Jehu did not turn aside from m the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, n which he made Israel to sin - that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.
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And the Lord said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, o your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel."
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But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart. p He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.
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In those days the Lord q began to cut off parts of Israel. r Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:
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from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from s Aroer, which is by the Valley of the Arnon, that is, t Gilead and Bashan.
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Now the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
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So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.
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The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
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Cross References
1 Kings 12:28 - 31
So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, "You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
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Cross References
1 Kings 14:16
And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.
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Cross References
2 Kings 15:12
(This was the promise of the Lord that he gave ...
2 Kings 10:35
So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried...
2 Kings 13:1
In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ah...
2 Kings 13:10
In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Jud...
2 Kings 14:23
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joa...
2 Kings 15:8
In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Ju...
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Cross References
2 Kings 10:29
But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin - that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.
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Cross References
2 Kings 13:25
Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.
2 Kings 14:25
He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.
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Cross References
2 Kings 8:12
And Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.
1 Kings 19:17
And the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha put to death.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The Lord our God gave all into our hands.
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Cross References
Amos 1:3 - 4
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
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