Passage

2 Kings 9

• Doctrine

  Divine Judgment through Human Agents

  God accomplishes his judgment through flawed human agents (Jehu) whose own conduct he later still holds accountable -- both truths must be held together, not resolved into either full endorsement or full condemnation.

  2KI.9.6-10

• Doctrine

  Jehu's Purge of Baal Worship

  Jehu's purge accomplishes God's judgment against the house of Ahab and Baal worship, but his own methods and motives are narratively ambiguous (and later criticized in Hosea 1:4) -- do not present his zeal as unambiguously righteous.

  2KI.9.1

• Glossary Term

  Purge

  Jehu's violent removal of Baal worship (2 Kings 10) is presented as an instrument of God's judgment, though Jehu's own motives are later criticized (cf.

  2KI.9.1

• Glossary Term

  Zeal

  Jehu's own claimed 'zeal for the LORD' (2 Kings 10:16) is narratively ambiguous -- effective against Baal worship, but self-serving in method.

  2KI.9.1