2 Kings 10:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And Jehu went... into the housei.e., into the outer court before the temple, where all the worshippers were waiting.

That there be here with you none of the servants of the Lord. — This precaution of Jehu’s suggests suspicion to a modern reader, but it would suggest the very contrary to the Baal-worshippers — viz., an extraordinary reverence for Baal; a dread lest some profane person should be present in his sanctuary.

Servants of the Lord.Worshippers of Jehovah.

2 Kings 10:23

23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.