Now in the morning he went out and stood and said to all the people, “You are [a]innocent; behold, (A)I conspired against my master and killed him, but (B)who [b]killed all these? 10 Know then that (C)there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the Lord has done (D)what He spoke [c]through His servant Elijah.” 11 So Jehu [d]killed all who remained of the house of Ahab in (E)Jezreel, and all his great men and his acquaintances and his priests, until he left him without a survivor.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 10:9 Lit just
  2. 2 Kings 10:9 Lit smote
  3. 2 Kings 10:10 Lit by the hand of
  4. 2 Kings 10:11 Lit smote

The next morning Jehu went out. He stood before all the people and said, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these? 10 Know, then, that not a word the Lord has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail. The Lord has done what he announced(A) through his servant Elijah.”(B) 11 So Jehu(C) killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his chief men, his close friends and his priests, leaving him no survivor.(D)

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