2 Kings 10:24 meaning and explanation
And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and warned them, “If anyone allows one of the men I am delivering into your hands to escape, he will forfeit his life for theirs.”
2 Kings 10:24, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
Jehu, now king over Israel, has gathered every worshipper of Baal into their temple under the pretense of a great sacrifice. The eighty men posted outside are his guard, and the warning is a life for a life: any soldier who lets a single devotee slip away will pay with his own life.
Read and study this verse. Three complete study layers are included with Premium.