19Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
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Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-28)Jehu, pushing on his work, is here, I. Courting the friendship of a good man, Jehonadab the son of Rechab , 2 Kgs. 10:15 , 16 . This Jehonadab, though mortified to the world and meddling little with the business of it (as appears by his charge to his posterity, which they religiously observed 300 years after, not to drink wine nor dwell in cities, Jer. 35:6), yet, upon this occasion, went to meet…
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