Today, I am reading and commenting on 2 Kings 10-12.

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Yesterday, I wrote about how Jehu was a worshiper of the God of Israel when he took the throne of Israel.  The writer makes that even more clear in today’s passage when he gathers all the worshipers of Baal and has them executed.  in order to illustrate how dedicated to serving the Lord Jehu was, the writer tells us that Jehonadab the son of Rechab allied with him.  I find that interesting because the only reason we know  anything about Jehonadab other than his alliance with Jehu is because Jeremiah (in Jeremiah 35) uses his descendants to illustrate the message which God gave him.  This seems to me to be an undesigned coincidence which lends support to the idea that this book is historically accurate.

Let me explain what I mean.  The writer here includes the alliance between Jehu and Jehonadab as evidence of Jehu’s dedication to the Lord when he first took the throne.  The writer took Jehonadab’s dedication to God as a given which everyone would know.  Yet we only know anything about Jehonadab’s dedication to God because of what Jeremiah wrote about his descendants.  On the other hand, Jeremiah in no way references this passage when he refers to Jehonadab.

I want to end by noting that despite Jehu wiping out Ahab’s entire household and wiping out the worship of Baal in Israel the passage tells us that he was not careful to walk in the Law of God with all his heart.  This tells us that a ruler can do much to honor and serve God without being someone whom we should emulate.  Of course, we can apply that standard to ourselves as well.  We, also, can honor and serve God in one part of our lives while falling short of what He truly desires for us.  After we do the things to which we clearly see God calling us we need to examine our lives to see where we are doing something similar to what Jehu did when he “did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam”.  What sins have we fallen into because we think it is expedient to do so?

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.