The Gruesome Judgment of Jehu | 2 Kings 10 Explained | The Bible Guys

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We talked good morning, good morning to you and you

and you.

What a way to start the week, Chris, I don't

think I've ever done it on the mone I mean

just have Do you remember a Monday starting never? Never? Never?

So you just shot us in distress. I can't imagine

this week getting much better. Yeah, we just shot an

adrenaline shot. Everybody's we reached the pinnacle of the week

in the first fifteen seconds.

We have.

Good morning. Yeah wow, So hey, well, hey, good morning.

We are the Bible Guys and we are here to

talk about the Bible. Oh okay, and how about that

in fun and practical way?

How about that? Who would have thought, you know, some

guys toning and say, oh I thought this was a

sports scores right right?

Not not not the way we roll?

Yeah, okay, Well, hey this is one of your favorite

one of your favorite, is it?

Yeah?

You like this and that's this or that one. It's

kind of what it is. Yeah, you like these, so

this is the one must go.

Well, I like I like that. Would you rather?

Would you rather?

Oh?

Okay, okay, what I like?

Okay, But but you know this does it's very similar.

It gives your choice.

This is called one must go, and it says, hey,

one one, which one stays, and which one goes away forever?

And the thing that we can never decide is is

this for the world or.

Just for ourselves?

Yeah, it's for the world for people who cares about yours.

What we like setting ourselves up is kings of the universe. Anyways,

that's right, that's right, that's right, all right. Here's the

first one. Would you pineapple on pizza or mushrooms on pizza?

Which which one goes away forever?

For the world, it have to be pineapple on pizza.

Although I love both, I do.

I do too.

Yeah.

I always forget how much I like pineapple and pizza

until I have a pizza with pineapple, and then I'm like,

why don't we order this more?

Right?

Right?

But it has to be that way because pineapple on

pizza is sort of a thing that people don't like.

Yeah, yeah, so if I agree, I agree. Well, people

don't like mushrooms either.

There's a lot of people.

But the difference is pizza is in it is fundamentally

an Italian yes, right, and there is no pineapple and right, yeah,

so that doesn't open pineapple on pizza. It's not really

a pizza.

My ancestors are rolling in their ridge.

Okay, go for it.

Number two candy corn goes Away Forever or black licorice.

I'm going candy corn, candy corn without even thinking twice, I'm.

Gonna go black licorice.

Really yeah, really, So you don't like lickorice.

Well, here's the thing. I think that a lot of people.

Hate candy corn absolutely, and I personally think black licorice

is from the devil.

See, I was gonna say, whoever invented candy corn. You know,

we've taken some strong stands the last few weeks, and

I was gonna say, whoever invented candy cork can't go

to heaven.

There was a guy that just was that the baptism, sir,

it's just on Monday, and he goes. I started listen

to the Bible, guys. He goes, and I'm nude heritage.

He goes and I didn't feel welcome, And I go,

what do you mean? I was in that bathroom.

He was changing.

You get baptized, and he goes because he goes, uh,

he goes.

I was told that if I owned an android, I

wasn't going.

Well, okay, we'll make an exception for him. Okay, right right,

but yeah, candy corn is my thing, man. Okay, well,

then both they have to they have to both go.

I'm not gonna be mad about it.

I'm not mad about that. Okay, all right, all right,

go ahead. Oh is it me?

No, it's me. Peanut butter and jelly or grilled cheese sandwiches.

These are two.

Phenomenal options, and people bailed to these as easy sandwiches

that are faced.

Oh, so I promise you my last two meals.

Yes.

Last night I got home from the airport and I

had grilled cheese.

Wow.

This morning, I got up at four something in the morning. Yeah,

my clock is off, you know, from traveling, and I

was crazy hungry. So I went on and made two

peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Those are my last two meals.

Are you kidding?

I promise you?

Wow?

I don't know. Hey, since we kicked out Candy Corner

Black Licors, can we keep both of these?

Oh? I like it. I like it. We're breaking the rules.

We were on fire wild, we are wild. Take that

desert ray.

But which one would you get rid of it if

you had to? I don't know that I can choose one.

I don't know if I literally, I literally my last

two meals, I've chosen those two things.

Okay, here's what I would say. I would say, uh,

peanut butter and jelly. You got to keep that for

the kids, though, grilled cheeses for the kids.

Cheese, I know that's tough.

So I have a recipe.

I'm gonna keep peanut butter and jelly.

I have a recipe for grilled cheese sandwich. It's it's phenomenal.

Uh and it has also has uh like sauteed pears

and bacon.

Whoa, let me tell you how wow?

So good?

Wow? Okay, I put one keep grilled cheese anyway.

Yeah, I like them both. But yeah, I'd probably keep

grilled cheese. But I love peanut butter.

Okay, anyways, all right, so how about this one?

Butterscotch goes away forever. I'm taking the whole flavor or

hazel nut flavors.

Yeah, okay, So all the grandmothers in the world or

all of the Swiss one of the other.

Yeah, and there they're listening right now, they're going, don't.

Okay, I would say butterscotchest too.

I love hazel Yeah, hazel on nut is it's more universal,

right yeah?

Yeah, because you can't get rid of the teller.

There you go.

It's or ferrochetes.

Oh those little candies. Yeah, that's the ones I didn't.

I know, you didn't know them. I love them. Yeah, yeah, okay, no,

it's yours.

Uh, that's you.

Okay. Banana split or classic ice cream cone?

Oh well, I'd have to do ban outa split just

because it's not as popular as the classic ice cream cone.

Right, me too. I would get rid of the banana,

but it would be difficult, right Yeah. When was the

last time you had a good ice cream cone?

Uh? Two days ago?

Really? Wow? Mine was last week, the day before I

left for going overseas. So it was what seven days ago?

We stepped a cold Stone. It was like twenty degrees outside,

fifteen degrees outside. We stopped the cold Stone price cream.

Yeah, hey, hey, I got to tell you something. That

segment was a basket of fun.

Oh good.

And speaking of baskets, huh. This story has a basket

full of severed heads.

Oh my goodness, okay, a basket of fun okay, seven, okay, okay,

very good. Come on, that is a good one. That

is a horrible, horrible transition, transition, a basket full of heads. Yes,

it's true, well true. Good job, Chris, thank you. I'm

so proud of you.

Thank you.

Yeah, you know what. Your family's gonna be proud of you.

I'm also proud of me.

Yeah, yeah, Okay.

My wife watched the Bible Guys this morning, as she

always does, getting ready, and I get up and we're,

you know, fiddling around in the bathroom, and she looks

at me and she goes, are you going in for

a taping of the Bible Guys? I said yeah, and

she goes, stop yawning.

I said, I can't. I said, it's low lighting, Jeff.

It's just the most boring person I've ever had to

sit next.

Not about boredom, yawn from boredom.

Oh okay, all right, okay, Well here we are. We're

in Second King's chapter ten, and as you mentioned, there's

a basket of heads and Jay Hugh kills Aheb's family

is what happens here. So if this is a good

morning and you're having devotions and you're sitting there sipping

your tear you're coffee and looking out into the woods

at the deer walking by, we just thought we'd read

this story to kind of kick off the day, no doubt,

and hey, maybe maybe maybe this is the indication that

when they go into work today, the heads are going

to roll or some ooh that there you go. That's

a double. That's a double.

Right, there's a two verse puns everywhere.

Okay, Second King's chapter ten, Verse one says Ahab had

seventy sons. Let me say, I met a guy this

week who has fifty four sons. Fifty four kids?

Are you kidding me?

No, No, I'm not joking.

Wow.

Yeah.

We were on a donor at one of those banks.

We were on the border of Kenya and South Sudan. Yeah,

And we were in the village and one of the

chiefs asked me, or elders asked me how many kids

I have. So I started to pull out my phone

and show my three kids, and he goes, he stops me,

and so he was just wanting to make a point.

He says, I have fifty four kids. Yeah, he also

has like eight wives or something. But yeah, wow, that

is anyway. So Abahab had seventy seventy sons. Wow uh

so not just seventy kids. Dude had seventy sons.

Which means he had daughters somewhere.

That's a couple of NFL football teams right. Anyways, Yeah,

living in the city of Samaria. So Jay who wrote

letters and sent them to Samaria to the elders and

officials of the city and to the guardians the king

and have sons. He said, the king's sons are with

you and you have at your disposal chariots, horses, a

fortified city, and weapons. As soon as you receive this letter,

select the best qualified of your master's sons to be

your king and be prepared to fight for Ahab's dynasty.

But they were paralyzed with fear, and they said, we've

seen that two kings can't stand against this man. What

can we do? So the palace and city administrators, together

with the elders and guardians of the king's sons, sent

this message to Jaehu. We are your servants and will

do anything you tell us. We will not make anyone King,

do whatever you think is best. Jayhu responded with a

second letter. If you are on my side and are

going to obey me, bring the heads of your master's

sons to me at Jezreel. By this time tomorrow now

the seventy sons of the king were being cared for

by the leaders of Samaria, where they had been raised

since childhood. When the letter arrived, the leaders killed all

seventy of the king's sons. They placed their heads in

baskets and presented them to jay Hu at Jezreel. A

messenger went to jay Hu and said, they have brought

the heads of the king's sons. So Jayhu ordered pile.

Theymitted two heaps at the entry of the city gate

and leave them there till morning. In the morning, he

went out and spoke to the crowd that had gathered

around them. You are not to blame, he told him.

I am the one who conspired against my master and

killed him. But who killed all these, you can be

sure that the message of the Lord that was spoken

concerning Ahab's family will not fail. The Lord declared through

his servant Elijah that this would happen. Then Jayhu killed

all who were left of Ahab's relatives living in Jessro

and all his important officials, his personal friends, and his priests.

So Ahab was left without a single survivor. Then Jayhu

set out for Samaria. Along the way, while he was

at beth Eked of the Shepherds, he met some relatives

of King Ahaziah of Judah. Who are you, he asked them,

and they replied, we are relatives of King Aziah. We're

going to visit the sons of King Ahab and the

sons of the Queen Mother. Take them alive, Jayhu shouted

to his men, and they captured all forty two of

them and killed them at the well of beth Ekid.

None of them escaped. When Jayhu left there, he met

Johannadab's son of Jack Rekab, who had been coming to

meet him. After they had greeted each other, jay who

said to him, are you as loyal to me as

I am to you? Yes, i am. Johanna dabs It

replied if you are, Ja who said, then give me

your hand. So Johanna Dad put out his head and

jay who helped him into the chariot. Then jay who said,

now come with me and see how devoted I am

to the Lord. So Johanna Dad rode along with him.

When Jay who arrived in Samaria, he killed everyone who

was left there from maybe Ahab's family, just the Lord

had promised through Elijah. Well, yeah, you wont think good

morning again, yeah right, good morning morning.

Yeah, that's that's pretty crazy.

That's a crazy one man.

Yeah, so I was. I was actually just glancing at

this note.

We actually love the Life Application study Bible absolutely, and

there's a note.

On here on verse number eleven, uh, which.

By the way, I guess we should start with the

fact that this was prophesied by Elijah.

Yes, right, I mean I.

Mentioned it in the scripture, right right, But like back

in like first Kings. I think it was something like

that Elijah had said to Ahab because he was it

the vineyard?

Was it was? Was it in Ahebb's vineyard? What was it?

Yeah?

Yeah, right, yeah, that's what his name is, all these

goofy names. But because he had uh and Jezebel had

killed him to steal his property in his vineyard. Basically,

God had said he was going to wipe him out

and wipe out everybody his whole He said, none.

Of your sons will sit on the throne.

And then and then uh A have repented a little

bit and said, you're so sorry. And so then God

made a proclamation and said, okay, the prophecy will come true. No,

Elijah said this, He said, the prophecy will come true,

but it won't come true in your lifetime. He said,

it'll come true, but it'll it'll come later. And so

here it is now, it's it's it's later. And uh

and and so A have had sons, and uh and

uh and and so they're they're definitely being killed to

satisfy the prophecy. Anyway, But here's what verse number eleven says,

you ready for this? Yes, And by the way, you

could easily overlook this because of all the slaughtering that's happening.

But it says then Jay I had noticed.

Right then, Jay who killed all who were left of

Ahab's relatives in living in Jezreel, and all his important

ready for this, all his important officials that wasn't in

the prophecy, right his personal friends Comma and his priests.

So Ahab was left it without a single survivor. Is

so Jay who definitely fulfilled what God said? But he

went too far, and so in two King's chapter ten,

verse eleven, it says this the note in his zeal

Jay who went far beyond the Lord's command with the

bloodshed or the bloodbath. The prophet Hoseiah later announced punishment

upon jay Who's dynasty for this senseless slaughter, as recorded

in Hosea chapter one, verses four and five. Many times

in history, religious people quote unquote religious have been mixed faith,

have mixed faith with personal ambition, power, or cruelty without God's.

Consent or blessing.

To use God or the by to condone oppression is

wrong when people attack Christianity because of atrocities that Christians

carried out helped them see that these men and women

were using faith for their own political ends and they

were not falling christ.

So it's it's a great note, by the way, isn't

They're great?

Yeah, it's really good.

Because you could easily, I mean, think about all the sense,

I mean, think about all the slaughter that's happening. You've

got baskets of heads being dumped out in two piles

by the city gates, and then you've got people from

the south coming up wanting to see the King's sons

and he's like, kill them all right, and it's just

a senseless slaughter.

Yeah. So so executing the seventy that was part of

the judgment of God. It was declared, you know, and

sometimes we talk about, you know, there's difference between the

Old Testament God and New Testament God kind of a thing.

But Paul affirms this idea in Glacier chapter six, where

he says, don't be misled. You cannot mock God's justice.

Right.

Whatever a person soows, that's what he's going to read.

Whatever you plan, that's what you're going to harvest. And

what Ahab had planted was only evil, continually had raised

his sons to do the same, had funded all the

priests of bail and of Astrooth. He had only done evil.

And God was able to look into time and go, hey,

it's never going to get better. We got a rid

of all of them, right, So he's going to wipe

them out, and this is the justice of God. And Jay,

who was ordered to do it right, God had told

him in this hey I'm going to make you king,

but you've got to wipe out these kings.

Yeah. It was literally an assignment, right, It.

Was an assignment from God. And so in that situation,

then he went and did his job. The problem is

he went way beyond and senseless take the senseless taking

of a life. Now he's breaking the commandments of God.

The commandment was as a government leader, as the head

of your government, I want you to go and execute

these these evil people. Okay, that's a part of the government,

the role of government. But then you can see it's

almost like a vendetta here. He's just go and after

everybody that might like Ahab. And that's a different thing.

He killed his friends, His friends didn't do those things, right,

he he he went after other people. And certainly there's

an even debta there. I think that was a fabulous note.

So great note, And don't use God's words to justify

your bad behaviors.

And and and remember back then people ruled by fear

so and.

The world still rules that way mostly right.

Right and so uh and so he and so it

could be that jay Hu said, Hey, I'm not just

going to take out, you know, Ahab's relatives, but I'm

going to let everybody know that that even if you

side with Ahab, if you're if you know his best friends,

obviously were loyal to Ahab, right, so you know, even

if you have a loyalty or an allegiance, let it

be known right that that that it's not going to

be tolerated. So he executes his own personal agenda, uh,

you know, because he's been given this assignment, so you know, yeah.

So so politically it makes sense to me a little

bit in that environment where you know, you seized thrones

if you didn't inherit a throne, the only way to

get a throne is he to seize the throne. So

just before this, he kills Joram and a Haziah, two

other kings, so he has an opportunity here to unify Israel,

bring Judah back in, and he's taken over Ahab's world

as well. So then he wipes out a Haziah's sons,

which wasn't part of the command, right. He's he's just

he's on a slaughter fest of his own ambition here

at this moment, and it's it's pretty horrible stuff. But

you know, I think that there is something to this

idea that you know, the roosters do come home to roost, right,

the chickens come home to roost. God said, ahab, it's

going to cost you everything, not just you, your sons,

and you know, we can make decisions that wind up

going generations deep good or bad.

I don't know the phrase roosters come home to the roost.

What does that mean?

You don't know. The phrase was chicken chickens home, always

come home to roost.

I don't know that phrase.

You can let chickens out in the yard without a

fence and they'll just walk around and eat all day long.

They'll scratch up bugs and you know, stuff like that.

But then when the sun starts to set, they'll always

come back to wherever it is they like to roost.

So if you have jinku from they'll come. Usually the

door open, they'll come back in, get up in the

roost and go to bed where they go. If they

a lot of places, they roost up in the trees,

and so they'll have a tree that they always come

back to the same place to roost in.

Huh.

So, yeah, it's you can let it all go. You

can let your life go, you can do all the things,

but eventually it's all going to come back to you.

And that's the Yeah, you didn't know that phrase. No,

I always come home with chickens like you yeah yeah yeah,

or a dad who used all those weird phrases, right.

Yeah, yeah, my dad used certain phrases, but not.

Exactly.

So there's a sermon in there somewhere. There's a lot

of sermons, but.

It always comes back to you, is what I'm saying.

It comes back way worse.

Yeah, the Galatians six to seven that he just quoted.

But there's another sermon in there, which is, you know,

so God gives us his law and we need to

pay attention. You know, we have commandments, we have promises, right,

we have guidelines in our lives, and we should learn

to pay attention to exactly what God said.

You know.

It reminds me of just two days ago we were,

you know, preaching at our church Heritage, and I was

included in the scripture was the Fall of Adam and

Eve member and and the Satan, the serpent. Satan said

to Eve, did God really say that you can't eat

of any of the trees of the fruit of the garden?

And he's trying to make God to say something that

he didn't say, you know, because you know obviously that

God didn't say that you can eat everything except.

For one fruit, right.

And then Eve comes back and she says, no, no, no,

God said that we're allowed to eat of all the fruit.

But it's just the tree in the middle of the garden,

the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that

we cannot eat from it. And then she adds to

it and she says, he said that you may not

eat it or even touch it, or less less will die. Well,

God never said that, because we just had looked at

it in Genesis chapter two, when God gave the commandment

to add him, he just said, don't eat of it,

you'll surely die. And then here's Eve adding to what

God said. You know you're not gonna eat it.

You don't.

You can't even touch it, or else you're gonna die.

And I thought to myself, that is so funny.

It's the same thing that Jay's doing here. God says, Hey,

here's the assignment. Jay was like, I'll do that, and

I'll add to it. Watch watch this right, hold my ring,

juice whatever. And so it's just interesting how we do

the same thing. And so even though this story is

out landish and crazy, and it's like it seems completely unrelatable,

like when's the last time you killed seventy people and

put their baskets and or you know, heads and baskets.

Your chances are you never going to do that, right,

But there is a relatable principle which is, don't add

to what God says. Don't don't add to what we

think that you know, God says this and that. And

that could be in the form of like legalism, like

you know, like adding rules upon rules. Right, you know,

here's here's a rule to make sure that you don't

break the rule that God gave. That's that's legalism, that's

pharasevical and and or it could be, uh that we

decide to justify God's law, and so we do, we

do what we want to do, and we attach it

to uh, you know, something that God says, but we

want to do it, so we just attached to it.

You know, we do this stuff all the time.

I think. So tomorrow we're going to talk about Jay,

who keeps going right and he's he's really clean in house.

Yeah, So.

It mentions here that he kills all of the sons

of Ahab and Jezebel and then he kills all of

the friends that that's inappropriate, and then he kills all

the priests, which goes back to being appropriate again in

the same way that Elijah killed all the prophets of

bail right. So so tomorrow he's going to pick that

up and he's going to keep cleaning house. And there

is something to be said about going all the way

on a thing right right now, what he did was illegal,

what he did was immoral with the friends of the king,

but in cleaning house, there's something to be said about saying,

you know what, I'm not going to go halfway. I'm

not going to be partly in with God. I'm going

all the way with what God has to say. And

you know, so, I can appreciate his zeal, I can

appreciate his enthusiasm, but even when you're excited, you have

to make sure that what you're doing alliance with what

God's words say, right right, And that's that's where the

danger comes. So this is one of the reasons why

I think again and we commend our listeners, and it's

not because you're listening to us, but because you're choosing

to spend twenty twenty five minutes just contemplating God's words

and what God has to say, and then you're wondering,

how does this supply in my life? And the more

you take in God's words and even in the zeal

or in the excitement of the moment, you're able to

filter that just a little bit more and make wiser choices, right,

hopefully that you would do. God's never going to ask

you to do something against what He's already said in

his word. Right, So, as a as a governor, as

a king, hey, I need you to go wipe out

this this other king's family. That sounds horrible to us.

It's responsibility of the government leader to do that, right,

But he doesn't say, go wipe out his friends and family.

That's just murder. And so how do you filter those?

How do you know? How do you know which is

right or which is wrong? It's it's the It's in

God's word. So God has said kings must follow me

or they're going to be wiped out. God had declared,

through God's man Elijah, this king's family is going to

be wiped out. You could see the words of God

were very precise. And then he went beyond the words

of God. And I think there's there's so much danger

in that that we don't go beyond what God's words.

And because we're in the middle of this series of highlighting,

you know, things from the Old Testament, we can go

all all the way back when Israel first demanded a king. Yeah,

and then and who was it Samuel who said, Okay,

here's what God says if you choose to go with kings.

Here's how the kings are going to behave, here's what's

going to happen, here's what they're going to do, here's

what they're not going to do. And then he listed

out basically all the things that they're living out currently

right now. And the and the people heard everything, and

then would they say he was the king?

They heard how bad it was going to be, and

then they're gonna do it anyway.

Yeah, we want what we want regardless, right, So okay, well, hey,

that is our time. And so we will definitely pick

up tomorrow with Jehu and hopefully we'll see that on

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