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23 Then Jehu and Jehonadab the son of Recab came to the temple of Baal, and he said to the servants of Baal, “Search and see that there is none of the servants of Yahweh here with you; only those who serve Baal.” 24 They came to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he said, “The man who lets anyone escape from the men who I am entrusting to you,[a] he will pay with his life!”[b]

25 It happened that when he finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the royal guard and to the officers, “Come and kill them; let no man go free!” So they put them to the sword,[c] and the royal guard and the officers threw them out, then they went up to the citadel of the temple of Baal.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 10:24 Literally “bringing upon your hand”
  2. 2 Kings 10:24 Literally “his life in place of his life”
  3. 2 Kings 10:25 Literally “they struck them with the edge of the sword”