Jehu challenges Israel to oppose him, but frightened by him they submit and in accordance with his wishes, they decapitate all the descendants of Ahab. Jehu also slaughters every descendant in Jezreel and kills the kinsmen of Ahaziah. During Jehu's reign, Hazael conquers Gilead.
PEOPLE: Jehu - יהוה YHVH - Elijah - Jehonadab - Hazael - Jehoahaz
PLACES: Samaria - Jezreel - Judah - Israel - Bethel - Dan - Jordan River - Gilead - Aroer - Arnon - Bashan
RELATED ARTICLES: Ahab - Ahaziah of Judah - Rechab - Baal - Jeroboam - Nebat - Tribe of Gad - Tribe of Reuben - Tribe of Manasseh - Chronicles of the Kings of Israel
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