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In the Biblical narrative, as far as I can see, one of Jehu's men called the prophet a maniac. The section as written says Jehu himself called the prophet a maniac. Can anyone find a source from another translation etc that indicates Jehu called the prophet a madman?
It would be helpful to add that Jehoshaphat, father of Jehu, is not the same Jehoshaphat whose son (Jehoram) he deposed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MicheleFloyd (talk • contribs) 22:21, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Jemisimiham Jehu-Appiah, is my Grandfather
Needs sources that are not biblical, but historical —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.83.28.1 (talk) 04:11, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
edited the historical section
editI did some rewriting of the histrorical section, deleting all biblical mentions (as they had been dealt with before) and starting the very important Tel Dan inscription, that states that Jehu did not kill Jehoram, but Hazael killed him (and the king of Juda) in his invasion of Israel. This obviously makes much more sence. Apart from the doubtfull source of the bible, is has never made any sence to me that he would kill Ahaziaz. Dealt with wars with his northern and eastern neighbours, he could not have risked a war with his southern ally Juda too. There were no repercussions from Athaliah, which would be hard to understand in the biblical context but not so strange in the historical context, why would she blame her cousin for something Hazael had done. Had in fact Ahazias, along with a lot of his kin, had been killed by Jehu, what would have stopped her to join the Aramaen/Moabite alliance against Israel?
Also made a reference to the start of the article, that he may have been been an actual descendend of Omri. That would make the "son of Omri" statement on the Black Obelisk jus a factual statement, which makes a lot of sence at that period, only the second time the Assyrians are mentioning the Israelites, after the Kurkh monolirth reference to the massive force Ahab brought to the Battle of Qarqar. Ahab wasn't identfied as son of Omri at that point of time, but apperently the makers of the Black Obelisk had learned the named the founder of the royal house. This would be a very strange name to add if that house had just been exterminated by Jehu, but very logical if he based his claims to the throne on his descendency from Omri. Also the reasoning that quite often Israel is named als "House of Omri" or "land of Omri" by the Assirians can not be used to justify this first mentioning. If it was the "House of Jehu" from thereon, they could just as easily used that name instead of going back to a king they had never met. So I would suggest that the House of Omri has reigned for a total of some 140 instead of 40 years. It is the very anti-omrinide attitude of the Deuteronomist school of Judaism that has caused their bad name and that is shortening their rule. Codiv (talk) 13:25, 28 August 2024 (UTC)