Quotes about Israel
The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.
— 2 Kings 9:8
“That is a lie!” they said. “Tell us now!” So Jehu answered, “He talked to me about this and that, and he said, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’”
— 2 Kings 9:12
Thus Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,
— 2 Kings 9:14
“Harness!” Joram shouted, and they harnessed his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his own chariot, and met Jehu on the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.
— 2 Kings 9:21
Then Jehu sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; there was not a man who failed to show. They entered the temple of Baal, and it was filled from end to end.
— 2 Kings 10:21
Thus Jehu eradicated Baal from Israel,
— 2 Kings 10:28
but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.
— 2 Kings 10:29
Nevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”
— 2 Kings 10:30
In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory
— 2 Kings 10:32
As for the rest of the acts of Jehu, along with all his accomplishments and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
— 2 Kings 10:34
So the duration of Jehu’s reign over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
— 2 Kings 10:36
In the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash son of Ahaziah over Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria seventeen years.
— 2 Kings 13:1