Teks -- 2 Kings 10:30 (NET)

10:30 The Lord said to Jehu, “You have done well. You have accomplished my will and carried out my wishes with regard to Ahab’s dynasty. Therefore four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.”

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Wesley: 2Ki 10:30 - Done well

In part, and so far as is here expressed.

Clarke: 2Ki 10:30 - Thy children of the fourth generation

Thy children of the fourth generation - These four descendants of Jehu were Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Jeroboam the second, and Zechariah; see 2 Kings 14 and 15. This was all the compensation Jehu had in either world, as a recompense of his zeal for the Lord.

TSK: 2Ki 10:30 - Because thou hast // according to all that // thy children

Because thou hast : 1Ki 21:29; Eze 29:18-20; Hos 1:4

according to all that : 1Sa 15:18-24; 1Ki 20:42, 1Ki 21:22

thy children : 2Ki 10:35, 2Ki 13:1, 2Ki 13:10, 2Ki 14:23, 2Ki 15:8-12

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Poole: 2Ki 10:30 - The Lord said unto Jehu // Executing that which is right in mine eyes // Thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel

The Lord said unto Jehu by some prophet, as above, 2Ki 9:7 .

Executing that which is right in mine eyes i.e. in part, and so far as is here expressed, these actions were good and right, though his heart was not so.

Thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel and so they did; namely, Jehoahaz, below, 2Ki 10:35 ; Joash, 2Ki 13:10 Jeroboam, 2Ki 14:24 ; and Zachariah, 2Ki 5:8 .

Haydock: 2Ki 10:30 - Generation

Generation. So Joachaz, Joas, Jeroboam II, and Zacharias, succeeded to the throne. This small temporal reward he obtained for the little good which he had done; while, on the other hand, he was punished for his manifold transgressions. Osee (i. 4,) reproaches him even for the blood which he had spilt in Jezrahel; for, though Achab and Joram were guilty, was Jehu innocent? Can this murder of Ochozias be justified? (Calmet) ---

"What advantage was it to him that he received some little transitory reward of a temporal kingdom, for his obedience in exterminating the house of Achab; which he indeed exhibited to gratify his own lust of dominion?" (St Augustine, contra mend. ii. c. 2.) This holy doctor observes, that moral good works are thus rewarded. (Worthington)

Gill: 2Ki 10:30 - And the Lord said unto Jehu // because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes // and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart // thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel

And the Lord said unto Jehu,.... By a prophet, he not being one himself; and this is generally supposed, by the Jews ^w, to be Jonah the son of Amittai:

because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes: in rooting out the idolatry of Baal, which was right in the sight of God, and was materially a good work, though it might not be done from a good principle, nor every step taken in doing it justifiable:

and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart: that he had decreed within himself should be done, and had foretold by his prophets would be done, the doing of which was acceptable and well pleasing to him:

thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel; as they did, namely, Jehoahaz, Joash, Jeroboam, and Zachariah, though the last reigned but six months, just enough to fulfil this promise.