2 Kings 10:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

So Jehu slew all his great men Whom Ahab had advanced and made great in wealth, or honour and quality; who had been partners with him in his sins, and were likely to avenge Joram's death. And his priests Who had served him in his idolatrous worship, and confirmed him in it. Or, his chief officers of state, as the word rendered priests sometimes signifies, and is translated: see 2 Samuel 8:18; 1 Chronicles 18:17. Until he left him none remaining To wit, in that place: but there were still some remaining in Samaria, (2 Kings 10:17,) whom he afterward destroyed, and some of the royal seed of Judah, descended from Ahab's daughter.

2 Kings 10:11

11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks,c and his priests, until he left him none remaining.