2 Kongebok 10:17

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Og da han kom til Samaria, slo han ihjel alle som var tilbake av Akabs hus i Samaria, til han hadde utryddet det, efter det ord som Herren hadde talt til Elias.

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  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he slew: 2 Kings 10:11, 2 Kings 9:8, 2 Chronicles 22:8, Psalms 109:8, Psalms 109:9, Malachi 4:1

according: 2 Kings 10:10, 2 Kings 9:25, 2 Kings 9:26, 1 Kings 21:21

Reciprocal: Judges 9:5 - slew Hosea 1:4 - and I

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria,.... All that were in any connection with him, as related to his family, or as ministers of his in civil or religious things:

till he had destroyed him; his whole house, as he was ordered:

according to the word of the Lord, which he spake to Elijah; which is observed, to show the exact fulfilment of prophecy, see 1 Kings 21:21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare 2 Kings 10:11. Thus was finally completed the political revolution which transferred the throne from the house of Omri to that of Nimshi, the fifth of the royal families of Israel.

According to the saying of the Lord - This emphatic reiteration (compare 2 Kings 10:10) marks, first, how in the mind of the writer all this history is viewed as deriving its special interest from its being so full and complete an accomplishment of Elijah’s prophecies; and, secondly, how at the time Jehu carefully put forward the plea that what he did had this object. It does not indicate that a single-minded wish to execute God’s will was Jehu’s predominate motive. Probably, even where he most strictly fulfilled the letter of prophecies, he was working for himself, not for God; and hence, vengeance was denounced upon his house even for the very “blood of Jezreel” Hosea 1:4.