2 Kings 10:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house. ”

2 Kings 10:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jehu, placing his adversaries’ advantages before them in the most favorable light, called upon them to decide what they would do. The unscrupulous soldier shows shrewdness as well as courage, a sha...
2 Kings 10:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and (b) set [him] on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house. (b) He wrote this, to prove them whether they would take his si...
2 Kings 10:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Destruction of the House of Ahab and of the Baal Worshippers. The same source is continued, but 2 Kings 10:28-31 are from a Deuteronomist. The whole story is one of the most terrible in the OT, A...
2 Kings 10:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
2 Kings 10:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour; No JFB commentary on these verses...
2 Kings 10:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jehu's Extermination of Baal Worship 1. Ahab.. sons] These were probably his grandchildren rather than his children. Unto the rulers of Jezreel ] LXX has 'unto the rulers of Samaria,' which the...
2 Kings 10:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The best and meetest — i.e. , the one you think best qualified in every sense (not merely in the moral sense). Your master’s sons. — “Your master” need not mean Jehoram. The story relates to...
2 Kings 10:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

JEHU ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE 2 Kings 10:1-17 B.C. 842-814 "The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose." - SHAKESPEARE. BUT the work of Jehu was not yet over. He was established at Jezre...
2 Kings 10:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Doom of the House of Ahab 2 Kings 10:1-11 What an iconoclast was this Jehu! Before his strong hand the whole structure of Baal-worship received its death-blow. And as we meet Elijah's name...
2 Kings 10:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here begins the second section of the Book, that which deals with the rapid and fearful corruption of the whole nation. The story alternates between Israel and Judah, and both sections of the nation...
2 Kings 10:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader! do not fail to connect with this view of the slaughter of Ahab's sons (or grandsons more likely) that solemn denunciation of God in the second commandment. Exodus 20:5 . And recollect also,...
2 Kings 10:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons ,.... Most fit for government, whether on account of age or proper qualifications, and wisdom, courage, c. and set him on his father's thro...
2 Kings 10:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set [him] on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house. Ver. 3. Look even out the best, &c. ] All this Jehu speaketh...
2 Kings 10:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Fight ye for your master's house This he said, because, perhaps, he had received notice of their intentions to do so, and that they were consulting about a successor to Joram: or to try them, whe...
2 Kings 10:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

AHAB'S SONS KILLED (vv.1-11) Ahab had 70 sons in Samaria and Jehu was purposed to put them to death also. He chose the method of demanding by letter that the rulers and elders of Israel should c...
2 Kings 10:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Death of Ahab's Sons; the Death of Ahaziah's Brethren. B. C. 884. 1 And Ahab had seventy...
2 Kings 10:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thus he speaks, either because he had some notice of their intentions thus to do; or to make trial of them, whether they would do so, or would be true to him and his designs; or to signify to them hi...
2 Kings 10:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Initial Destruction Of The Seventy ‘Sons' Of The House Of Ahab ( 2 Kings 10:1-8 ). Very few kings of that time (if any) who replaced another dynasty with their own, would have acted ant differ...
2 Kings 10:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE FALL OF BAAL CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 2 Kings 10:1 . Seventy sons — i.e., descendants , sons grandsons, &c. The rulers of Jezreel —“Jezreel” has no authoritative place in the t...
2 Kings 10:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 10:1 . Seventy sons, whose end was destruction, like the sons of Gideon, of Saul, and of David. The sure way to build up a house is equity, not polygamy. Jehu wrote letters. God gave him...
2 Kings 10:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jehu wrote letters and sent to Samaria. Jehu Jehu. He did not rest until he had destroyed the house of Ahab and the worship of Baal. There are many Jehus to-day and there is much Jehuism: relig...
2 Kings 10:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Kings 10:1-12 THE REIGN OF JEHU OVER ISRAEL . 2 Kings 10:1-12 The revolution initiated by the destruction of Joram and Jezebel is here traced through its secon...
2 Kings 10:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Relatives of Ahab Slain
2 Kings 10:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 1:24 ; 1 Kings 1:25 ; 1 Kings 12:20 ; 1 Kings 12:21 ; 1 Samuel 10:24 ; 1 Samuel 11:15 ; 2 Samuel 2:12-17 ; 2 Samuel 2:8 ; 2 Samuel 2:9 ; Deuteronomy 17:14 ; Deuteronomy 17:15 ; Jo...

2 Kings 10:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Kings 10:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Kings 10:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 10:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Kings 10:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 10:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 10:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Kings 10:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Kings 10:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Kings 10:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 10:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Kings 10:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Kings 10:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Kings 10:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 10:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 10:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Kings 10:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Kings 10:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 10:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Kings 10:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 10:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Kings 10:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Kings 10:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Kings 10:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge