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2 Kings 10 Bible study: With all his heart

The LORD says Jehu did "that which is right in my eyes" (10:30); the next verse says he didn't walk in the LORD's law "with all his heart" (10:31). The LORD had said both of David (1 Kings 14:8); of Jehu, only one. And the word for how Jehu gathered Baal's worshipers, "deceptively" (10:19), is found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.

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“But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.”
2 Kings 10:31 · World English Bible

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In the text

Through Elijah the LORD had spoken against Ahab's house: "I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat" (1 Kings 21:22). When Ahab humbled himself, the LORD told Elijah, "I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day" (1 Kings 21:29). Now "Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria" (10:1). Jehu writes to Samaria, to the rulers, the elders and those who brought up Ahab's sons (10:1): "select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house" (10:3). They say, "Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?" (10:4), and send word, "We are your servants" (10:5). A second letter asks more of them (10:6), and they do it (10:7). In the morning Jehu stands before the people and says, "You are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these?" (10:9). Then he says whose word it is: "Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of the LORD’s word, which the LORD spoke concerning Ahab’s house. For the LORD has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah" (10:10) (tap fall). When Jehu comes to Samaria, the book says it in its own voice: "according to the LORD’s word which he spoke to Elijah" (10:17).

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The Hebrew word behind it

לֵבָבlevavsay le-VAV

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "inner man, mind, will, heart". Strong's: "the heart (as the most interior organ)". The chapter uses it five times, and the WEB says heart each time. Three are in Jehu's question: "Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?" (10:15). One is the LORD's own: "according to all that was in my heart" (10:30). And one is the book's word on Jehu: "But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart" (10:31). With all his heart is what the LORD had said of David, who "followed me with all his heart" (1 Kings 14:8), and what 2 Kings says of Josiah, who "turned to the LORD with all his heart" (23:25). The law had said, "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart" (Deuteronomy 6:5).

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2 Kings 10 Bible study questions

  1. 1Jehu asked Jehonadab, "Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?" (10:15). Who could you ask that of, and who could ask it of you?
  2. 2Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel, but didn't depart from the golden calves Jeroboam had set up long before (10:28-29; 1 Kings 12:29). Why can the wrong we've got used to be harder to let go of than the one everyone can see?
  3. 3The book says Jehu "took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart" (10:31). What would walking with all your heart look like for you this week?

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