Sunday Sermonette: The Final Solution

As you may recall, Jezebel was the daughter of a Phoenician king, who married Ahab and introduced the worship of Baal to the northern kingdom.  Elijah and then Elisha have been fighting a sort of guerilla war against Ahab ' s successors and the worship of Baal, but for some reason Yahweh has mostly been putting up with it until now. Yahweh finally had Elisha appoint Jehu as king, to impose the final solution. So here it is. First Jehu orders the Samarians to kill all 70 of Ahab ' s sons and send him their heads, which they do. Then Jehu massacres the rest of Ahab ' s family and his priests. Then Jehu goes to Samaria and meets with  relatives of the late king Ahazia of Judah, who Jehu had previously murdered. He takes them prisoner and murders them all. Jehu then meets a guy named Jehonadab and invites him to join in the fun. So they go to Samaria and murder the rest of Ahab ' s family. Then Jehu summons all the priests of Baal claiming that Jehu intends to worship Baal and he ' s going to stage a great sacrifice. But he ' s lying. When the priests of Baal show up, Jehu has them all murdered. Mission accomplished.10 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samar ′ia. So Jehu wrote letters, and sent them to Samar′ia, to the rulers of the city,[a] to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying,2 “Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master’s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also...
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