jSee 1 Sam. 25:22
Exodus 20:5-6
5 aYou shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am ba jealous God, cvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing steadfast love to thousands ▼▼Or to the thousandth generation
of those who love me and keep my commandments. 1 Kings 14:10
10therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and ewill cut off from Jeroboam every male, fboth bond and free in Israel, and gwill burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.2 Kings 9:7-9
7And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge hon Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord. 8For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, iand I will cut off from Ahab jevery male, kbond or free, in Israel. 9And I will make the house of Ahab like lthe house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like mthe house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.2 Kings 10:1-7
Jehu Slaughters Ahab’s Descendants
1Now Ahab had seventy sons in nSamaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city, ▼▼Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew rulers of Jezreel
to the elders, and to pthe guardians of the sons ▼▼Hebrew lacks of the sons
of Ahab, saying, 2“Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master’s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons, 3select the best and fittest of your master’s sons and set him on his father’s throne and fight for your master’s house.” 4But they were exceedingly afraid and said, “Behold, the two kings could not stand before him. How then can we stand?” 5So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, r“We are your servants, and we will do all that you tell us. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your eyes.” 6Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, swho were bringing them up. 7And as soon as the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons tand slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel. 2 Kings 10:11-14
11So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining.12Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds, 13Jehu met uthe relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, “Who are you?” And they answered, “We are the relatives of Ahaziah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother.” 14He said, “Take them alive.” And they took them alive and slaughtered them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two persons, and he spared none of them.
2 Kings 10:17
17And when he came to Samaria, vhe struck down all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the Lord wthat he spoke to Elijah.2 Kings 10:30
30And 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, xyour sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.”
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