2 Raja-raja 10:1

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ahab mempunyai tujuh puluh orang anak laki-laki di Samaria. Yehu menulis surat, dan mengirimnya ke Samaria, kepada pembesar kota itu, kepada para tua-tua dan kepada para pengasuh anak-anak Ahab, bunyinya:

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ahab mempunyai tujuh puluh orang anak laki-laki di Samaria. Yehu menulis surat, dan mengirimnya ke Samaria, kepada pembesar kota itu, kepada para tua-tua dan kepada para pengasuh anak-anak Ahab, bunyinya:

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bermula, maka adalah pada raja Akhab tujuh puluh orang anaknya laki-laki di Samaria, sebab itu dikarangkanlah Yehu beberapa pucuk surat, yang dikirimkannya ke Samaria, kepada segala penghulu Yizriel dan segala tua-tua dan kepada segala ajar-ajar Akhab, bunyinya:

Contextual Overview

¹ Ahab had threescore & ten sonnes in Samaria: And Iehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, vnto the rulers of Iezrahel, to the elders, and to them that brought vp Ahabs children, saying: ² Nowe when this letter commeth to you (ye that haue with you your maisters sonnes, ye haue with you both charets and horses, a strong citie haue ye also, and harnesse) ³ Loke which of your maisters sonnes is best and most meete, and set him on his fathers seate, and fight for your lordes house. ⁴ But they were exceedingly afrayde, & sayde: See, two kinges were not able to stande before him: howe shall we then be able to stande? ⁵ And he that was gouernour of Ahabs house, & he that ruled the citie, the elders also, & the tutours, sent to Iehu, saying: We are thy seruauntes, & will do all that thou shalt byd vs, we wil make no man king: therefore do thou what seemeth good in thyne eyes. ⁶ Then he wrote another letter to them, saying: If ye be myne, and wil hearken vnto my voyce, then take the heades of the men that are your maisters sonnes, and come to me to Iezrahel by to morowe this time: (And the kinges sonnes were threescore and ten persons, and they were with the great men of the citie which brought them vp.) ⁷ And when the letter came to them, they toke the kinges children, and slue them, euen threescore and ten persons, & layed their heades in baskettes, and sent them to him to Iezrahel. ⁸ And there came a messenger, and told him, saying: They haue brought the heades of the kinges sonnes. And he said: Let them lay them on two heapes in the entring in of the gate, vntill the morning. ⁹ And when it was day, he went out, and stoode, and sayde to al the folke, Ye be righteous: Behold, I conspired against my maister, and slue him: But who slue all these? ¹⁰ Learne here that there shall fall vnto the earth nothing of the worde of the Lorde, whiche he spake concerning the house of Ahab: For the Lorde hath brought to passe ye thinges that he spake by the hande of his seruaunt Elias.

Bible Verse Review
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seventy sons: Judges 8:30, Judges 10:4, Judges 12:14

in Samaria: 2 Kings 5:3, 1 Kings 13:32, 1 Kings 16:28, 2 Chronicles 22:9

the rulers: Deuteronomy 16:18, 1 Kings 21:8-14

them: Heb. nourishers

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 21:21 - Behold 1 Kings 21:29 - in his son's days Ecclesiastes 6:3 - a man Jeremiah 29:25 - Because Galatians 4:1 - That

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens.

Genesis 5:1
This is the booke of the generations of Ada. In the day that God created man, in the lykenesse of God made he hym.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah [was] a iust man, and perfect in his generations: And Noah walked with God.

Genesis 9:1
And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth.

Genesis 9:7
But be fruitefull, and multiplie you, breede in the earth, and increase therein.

Genesis 9:19
These are the three sonnes of Noah, & of them was the whole earth ouerspread.

Matthew 1:1
This is the booke of the generation of Iesus Christ, the sonne of Dauid, the sonne of Abraham.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria,.... These might not be all his immediate sons, but some of them his grandsons, as such are sometimes called in Scripture:

and Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel; who fled thither, perhaps on Jehu's coming to Jezreel, having slain Joram, being the metropolis of the kingdom, to consult about a successor, or how to oppose Jehu, and to frustrate his designs: but the Septuagint version is, "to the rulers of Samaria", which seems most likely to be the true reading:

to the elders; the civil magistrates of the city of Samaria:

and to them that brought up Ahab's children: who had the care of their education; who either always dwelt at Samaria, being the royal city, or were sent with their charge thither, when Joram went to Ramothgilead, for safety, supposing he should be worsted by the Syrians; or they fled thither with them upon the death of Joram:

saying; as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Seventy sons - i. e., descendants; there were included among them children of Jehoram (2 Kings 10:2-3, etc.).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER X

Jehu sends an ironical letter to the elders of Samaria, telling

them to choose one of the best of their master's sons, and put

him on the throne; to which they return a submissive answer,

1-6.

He writes a second letter, and orders them to send him the

heads of Ahab's seventy sons; they do so, and they are laid in

two heaps at the gate of Jezreel, 7, 8.

Jehu shows them to the people, and excuses himself, and states

that all is done according to the word of the Lord, 9, 10.

He destroys all the kindred of Ahab that remained in Jezreel,

11.

He also destroys forty-two men, the brethren of Ahaziah, king

of Judah, 12-14.

He meets with Jehonadab, and takes him with him in his chariot,

15, 16.

He comes to Samaria, and destroys all that were of the kindred

of Ahab there, 17.

He pretends a great zeal for the worship of Baal, and gathers

all his priests together, under the pretense of a grand

sacrifice, and slays them all, 18-25.

He burns Baal's images, and makes his temple a draught house,

26-28.

But he does not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, and does not

prosper, 29-31.

Hazael vexes Israel, 32, 33.

Jehu dies, having reigned over Israel, in Samaria, twenty-eight

years, 34-36.

NOTES ON CHAP. X

Verse 2 Kings 10:1. Ahab had seventy sons — As he had several wives, he might have many children. The Israelites, from the earliest part of their history, were remarkably fruitful. How amazingly did they multiply in Egypt, even under the hand of the severest oppression! And as to the individuals of whose families we have an account, they are quite remarkable: Rehoboam had thirty-eight sons; Abdon had forty; Tola had thirty; Ahab, seventy; and Gideon, seventy-one.

Unto the rulers of Jezreel — It certainly should be, unto the rulers of Samaria; for to them and to that city the whole context shows us the letters were sent. See 2 Kings 10:6.

To them that brought up Ahab's children] It appears that the royal children of Israel and Judah were intrusted to the care of the nobles, and were brought up by them, (see 2 Kings 10:6;) and to these, therefore, Jehu's letters are directed. It is supposed Isaiah (Isaiah 49:23) alludes to this custom: Kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nursing mothers.