Jehu’s Partial Obedience and Reign Summary

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But yet he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he forsake the golden calves that were in Bethel, and Dan.

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And the Lord said to Jehu: because thou hast diligently executed that which was right and pleasing in my eyes, and hast done to the house of Achab according to all that was in my heart: thy children shall sit upon the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.

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But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, who had made Israel to sin.

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In those days the Lord began to be weary of Israel: and Hazael ravaged them in all the coasts of Israel,

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From the Jordan eastward, all the land of Galaad, and Gad, and Ruben, and Manasses, from Aroer, which is upon the torrent Arnon, and Galaad, and Basan.

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But the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and his strength, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

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And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria: and Joachaz, his son, reigned in his stead.

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And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel, in Samaria, was eight and twenty years.

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