2 Kings 15:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass.

The word

2 Kings 10:30

Thy sons

2 Kings 13:1

2 Kings 14:29

And so

Bible References

The word

Jehovah said to Jehu: You have done well by doing what is right in my eyes. You carried out my purpose for the family of Ahab. Therefore your sons will be kings of Israel to the fourth generation.

Thy sons

Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, became king over Israel in Samaria. He ruled for seventeen years. It was the twenty-third year of Joash, son of Ahaziah, king of Judah.

Jeroboam went to rest with his fathers. He was buried with the kings of Israel. Zechariah his son became king in his place.

And so

Jehu said to Bidkar, his captain: Pick him up, and put him in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. I remember when you and I were riding together after Ahab, his father. Jehovah offered this prophesy against him.

You may be certain that nothing Jehovah said about the family of Ahab will be without effect. Jehovah has done what he said by his servant Elijah.

God is a not man that he should lie. He is not a son of man who changes his mind. Does he ever promise and not fulfill? Does he ever speak and not act?

I commanded my servants the prophets to obey my words and my statutes. They disregarded them and suffered greatly. Then they repented and admitted that I, Jehovah of Hosts, corrected them as they deserved according to their deeds.'

Heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away.

So if he called them 'god-like ones,' those to whom the word of God came, and the Scriptures may not be annulled,

They said to one another, Let us not tear the coat. So they cast lots for it. That fulfilled the scripture that said: They parted my garments among them, and they cast lots for my covering.

Brothers, the Scripture needed to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who guided those who arrested Jesus.