2 Kings 10:18-36 - Jehu Purges The Baal Worshipers
18 After that, Jehu gathered all the people together and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little: but Jehu shall serve him a good. 19 Now, therefore, call unto me all the Prophets of Baal and all his servants and all his priests that none be lacking. For I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal: and if any be missed, he shall not live." But Jehu did it for a subtlety, to destroy the servants of Baal. 20 Wherefore Jehu said, "Appoint a solemn feast for Baal." And they proclaimed it.
21 Then Jehu sent throughout all Israel. And all the servants of Baal came, that there was not a man left behind that came not. And when they were come into the temple of Baal, the temple was full from one end to another. 22 Then he said to the keeper of the vestry, bring forth garments for the servants of Baal. And he brought them out garments.
23 And Jehu went with Jehonadab son of Rechab into the house of Baal: and said to the servants of Baal, "Search and look that there be none here with you of the servants of the LORD, but the servants of Baal only." 24 And they went in, to offer sacrifice and burnt offerings. But Jehu appointed him four score men without, and said, "If any of the men that I shall bring unto your hands escape, he that letteth him go shall die for him." 25 And as soon as he had made an end of offering of burnt sacrifice, he said to them of the guard and to the lords, "Go in and slay them, let none come out." And they smote them with the edge of the sword. And the guard and the lords cast them out, and went unto the city of the house of Baal, 26 and fetched out the image out of the house of Baal and burnt it. 27 And they brake the image of Baal, and brake the house of Baal, and made a privy house thereof, unto this day.
28 And so Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. 29 But from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which made Israel sin with the golden calves in Bethel and Dan, Jehu departed not. 30 Then the LORD said to Jehu, "Because thou hast lustily done that pleaseth me, and hast done to the house of Ahab all that was in mine heart, therefore shall thy children in the fourth generation sit on the seat of Israel."
31 But Jehu cared not to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam which made Israel sin.
32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short, for Hazael slew them in all the coasts of Israel, 33 from Jordan Eastward: even all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer upon the river of Arnon, with Gilead and Bashan.
34 The rest of the acts of Jehu, and all he did, and all his power, are written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 35 And when Jehu was laid to rest with his fathers, they buried him in Samaria, and Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead. 36 And the time that Jehu reigned upon Israel in Samaria, was twenty eight years.