2 Kings 10:3

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.

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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...
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...
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 wh...
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,...
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 ]...
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 ma...
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...
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 rece...
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...
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 secon...
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 wisd...
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 ev...
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 consulti...
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 le...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Death of Ahab's Sons; the Death of Ahaziah's Brethren. B. C. 884....
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 tru...
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 d...
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 Jezr...
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...
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...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Relatives of Ahab Slain
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, the ablest among the sons of Joram, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your...
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...

³ 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.

Related Commentaries of 2 Kings 10:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 10:3