{"id":63650,"date":"2019-09-29T00:41:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T21:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=63650"},"modified":"2023-04-24T18:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:24:28","slug":"king-jehu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/king-jehu\/","title":{"rendered":"King Jehu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[835,363],"acf":{"old_id":"63650","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"318","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Good or bad? Good and bad?\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our chapter, Jehu is anointed as the tenth king of the northern kingdom of Israel by an unnamed disciple of Elisha. According to Seder Olam 18, this disciple of Elisha was none other than the prophet Jonah. Though Jehu\u2019s anointing was done in private, when Jehu makes his becoming king known to his officers they immediately \u201csound the horn and proclaim, \u2018Jehu is king!\u2019\u201d (II Kings 9:1-13). Jehu then kills his predecessor, Jehoram, his mother Jezabel and the rest of the idolatrous House of Omri. All this is done to honor the God of Israel, since the Omrides had promoted the worship of Baal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talmud Bavli Sanhedrin 102a goes on to add that Jehu was a very righteous person. This is supported by the verse \u201cThe Lord said to Jehu, \u2018Because you have acted well and done what was pleasing to Me, having carried out all that I desired upon the House of Ahab, four generations of your descendants shall occupy the throne of Israel\u2019\u201d (II Kings 10:30). But this is immediately followed by the statement \u201cBut Jehu was not careful to follow the Teaching of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart; he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit\u201d (II Kings 10:31). This is exemplified by Jehu\u2019s devious proclamation: \u201cAhab served Baal little; Jehu shall serve him much!\u201d (I Kings 10:18). Indeed, Jehu did not put an end to the worship of the golden calves that Jeroboam had set up at Bethel and Dan. Because of Jehu\u2019s failure to serve the God of Israel \u201cwith all his heart\u201d, toward the end of his reign, \u201cthe Lord began to reduce Israel. And Hazael harassed them throughout the territory of Israel\u201d (II Kings 10:32).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Significantly, Jehu is mentioned in Assyrian records, notably on the \u201cBlack Obelisk\u201d discovered in 1846 in the excavations at ancient Nimrud and preserved in the British Museum. In this bas-relief, King Jehu of Israel is depicted as kissing the ground in front of Shalmaneser III and presenting a gift. In the inscription on this obelisk, Jehu\u2019s tribute is dated 841 BCE. 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