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Why is the bloodshed of Jezreel to be avenged on the house of Jehu in Hosea 1:4?
16So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
17And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the ...
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Why is the bloodshed of Jezreel to be avenged on the house of Jehu in Hosea 1:4?
Excellent question.
The problem is further confounded by the fact that in 2 Kings 10:30 Jehu is even rewarded for his action in Jezreel, so how can Jehu be both rewarded and punished for the same act?...
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Why is Jehu called Zimri by Jezebel in 2 Kings 9:31?
She is threatening to kill Jehu to his face
The hermeneutic here is to look back to "first mention": Who was King Zimri?
Jezebel was probably likening Jehu to King Zimri. This happens in today's ...
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Why is the bloodshed of Jezreel to be avenged on the house of Jehu in Hosea 1:4?
The instructions given to Jehu was quite explicit
"Thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the ...
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Who were these prophets in 1 Kings 18:2-4?
Moses spoke out in Numbers 11:29 saying :
Would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them! [KJV]
Thus the prophets killed by Jezebel and those ...
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Did God repent of the evil he had declared against Ahab in 1 Kings 21?
In Eze 18 we have the principle of freedom of moral choice declared quite clearly. The wicked can turn from their wicked ways and be saved:
V21-23 - But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he ...
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(1 Kings 21:7) is Jezebel a wife that belittles/mistreats her husband or is she a wife who encourages King Ahab, her husband?
She "controls" her husband by doing both
...That's the bottom line, but...
First, hermeneutics...
Being a site about hermeneutics, "how we got here" is the important part to ...
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Why is the bloodshed of Jezreel to be avenged on the house of Jehu in Hosea 1:4?
Is God happy or sad at what Jehu did : answer both
“The Lord said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in accomplishing what is right in my eyes and have done to the house of Ahab all I had in mind to ...
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