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Episode 620: In this episode, we delve into the biblical narrative of Jehu from 2 Kings chapter 9. Jehu, anointed as king, is tasked with wiping out the lineage of Ahab, fulfilling a prophecy given by Elijah twenty years prior. We explore the dramatic events as Jehu confronts King Joram and King Ahaziah, leading to their deaths in a bloody coup. The narrative is intense, filled with themes of justice and divine retribution, as Jehu's actions are framed within the context of God's judgment against the idolatry and evil practices of Ahab's family.
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You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. Today is Friday, Friday. Friday, Friday. Yes, Friday is a good day for most people. And for those of you who work the weekdays and you are off on the weekends, congratulations for you. Now for those people like us, we've sort of done that opposite of our whole lives. We have more flexibility during the weekdays, and so our friends say, hey, let's get away for the weekend, and we're like, we can't. We can we work on the weekends. Yeah, So anyway, I feel like I work through the week I volunteer on the weekends usually, yeah, I think, well, but either way, you're busy, I have obligations. Yes, you don't get away, right. Your friends are like, we're free for the weekend. You're like, I'm not. I'm free Friday and Saturday. Right, that's correct, that's correct. So, hey, we have entered in to a segment where it is Friday, and so most people may expect, they might expect or anticipate everybody's favorite, everybody's favorite segment, which is what made Chris, which I'm not sure that's true, but you keep on saying it. Thank you, thank you, thank you Chris for being angry on your behalf. See that is why I know you're not telling the truth. So you just you think it's your favorite segment. It's everybody's favorite. So here we go. So we are. I walked into a meeting the other day. Yes, it was a church business meeting. A meeting, yep, And I had two different couples call me over and say, hey, tonight, ask what made Chris mad this week? From state? They wanted me to ask it. Really? Yes, is that true? That's true? Wow, two different couples. Yep, that's funny. So they love it, love it. That's okay. Whatever. So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna switch it up today, and so we are going to ask this segment what made Jeff mad this week? Well, you know, I don't get mad very often. That's not true at all. You just don't express it because you're wiser than me. No, I get I get mad. I get mad all the time, and I'm not wiser than you. So I have one. I have one today So you remember last week I told you I had a morning miracle, Yes, where I drove into the office all the way from my not to the office to the studio, all the way from my house all the way to the studio. It's almost like ten miles. Yeah, and I passed so many lights and I never hit a red light the whole way, just like a morning miracle. That's how you know it's gonna be a good day. Yes, right, I remember that we were You were so happy. Well, dude, I'm telling you today, Yes, what are the chances coming into the studio. It almost happened again? Almost all most Oh, let me guess the one light made you mad? So no, I'm going to confess. Oh, you're mad at a person on one of the on one of the lights, I kind of rolled towards the light, like I realized, ooh it's red, it's red. Yeah. So I just let off the gas. Yeah, I didn't hit my brakes or anything. I just let out the gas and pasted and so I didn't have to hit my brain and it was gonna turn green, that's right. But this is snowy today. We got a couple inches of snow in Michigan. And that's normal Michigan people. Two or three inches of snow, it's like nothing, right, we got to have like seven or eight inches before we start. Ooh, this is really bad, right right. So I am surrounded by full wheel drive pickup tips. I'm driving a GMC Denali, yes, right, full wheel drive. Yes, I'm fine. I have a. Chevy next to me, Silverado, full wheel drive. He's fine. Yes, I've got a Chevy and a GMC in front of me. Fine. So I move out. I realized it's about to turn red. I move out into an empty lane. Yes, about to turn green. That's right, about to turn green. I I move out into the empty lane. I let off my brakes and I'm just kind of coasting towards it. That way, I don't have to hit my brakes, and then it's going to be a perfect day. It was the last light, and akia no, A guy in a Ford F one point fifty cut me off and hit his brakes hard. He had no reason. And so I we've we've made a couple of bold declarations. I'm not sure Ford drivers can go to heaven. Wow, this is oh, that's I'm not positive. I don't have proof in the Bible. Yet that made Jeff mad. People like that, Hey, listen, that's right. When I get mad, I don't. I don't necessarily question people's eternity. Dude, your trucks supposedly full will drive too, It's correct if you're not. If you're afraid to drive it, get out and push it right right or park it for crying out loud, But don't get in the way of a GMC wow. Full will drive because I'm not afraid to drive right right right. And then to cut me off, Oh, you can hit your brakes. He was already in line. Everybody was stopped right, everybody was stopping. So he went from a parked lane, he. Went from a stop lane, pulled out. I mean cut me off. I had to slam on my brakes in the snow. Yeah, right, So he just decided he wanted to be first, apparently, and he wanted to make me stop. Yeah. And then I'm telling you, as soon as I touched my brakes, bang, it goes green. And then you thought he ruined it. Today is going to be a bad It was. It was the light right here, just just around the corner from I made it all the way here, and then a guy in a Ford. Of course it was a Ford. Of course it was of course it was a Ford. He makes any American. Vehicle, but if I did, if it was, it'd be if it was a Toyota. Yeah, you totally make fun of it. Yeah, Tacoma, Tacoma. Yeah, there you go, you can make fun of it. Yeah, but not Ford. Man, I like for I like my GMC better. But guess what, It's not about the forward, It's about the guy. That's that's the issue, right, Well, he just makes bad choices that you can tell that guy. You can tell you he's that guy. Actually, we would not want to go to the movies with that guy, right, we would hang out with. That guy, that's right. So anyways, that's what I'm mad about today is those people who ruin your streak for no reason. Yes, he had no motivated reason. And then when it turned green, it was like he couldn't find the accelerator because he. Just said break he's. No, no, he's driving a full draft truck. But there's snow on the ground, right, he couldn't find his accelerator. Literally, twenty five cars on our right just keep passing us. As on the right people. Yes, I know, just just just push it a little, it'll go. Oh my goodness, it'll go. Yeah, it's the one I'm yelling. It's the one on the right. Yeah. So yeah. Anyway, Well, jeff thank you, Thank you on behalf of It's not just me. Everybody else who wishes that their light streak could keep going, could keep going. Thank you for getting mad. Everybody who wishes that people would drive their vehicles right right, just drive it. That's all you have to do. That's it. Yeah. If you if you own a four wheel drive and you can't drive in two inches of snow, you're right. And I'm not saying he should have been doing seventy right, he could have been close to speed limit right, Nope, can't do it. He couldn't stay in line the whole nine years, the whole nine years. Everything about that experience was bad and it made me mad, and it happened right here on the corner. Terrible, yes, terrible. That's it I meant for you, Jeffy, Thank you, Chris, thank you, Chris Well. Thank you for enlightening us. And by the way, it felt good to be on the other side of this. Well. I wanted to take him out. So I wanted to I want to just like spin him out or Something's what I was thinking, just like put like a police car talking about people who want to take people out. Oh Ju takes out Joram and a Hasaiah. I have a feeling he would not have said that if not for looking for. A transition, wouldn't have said that. No, I wanted to take him out in the same way that Jay Hush you got and what is his name, has Zaiah Haziah Isaiah. Yeah, yeah, that is so funny, dude. Yeah, So that was our transition or terrible transitions. All right, good job, Okay. So in Second King's chapter nine, Jay Whu, remember he's been ordered to wipe out Ahabs. He was annoyed as king. Yeah, he was annoying King in order to wipe out all of Ahab's heirs because and this was a prophecy from twenty years ago. Twenty years prior, Elijah had said God's gonna let you live, Ahab, but none of your heirs will live, ensuring that Israel will never have your family on the throne again. Right. So, so Jayhu, son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, led a conspiracy against King Joram. Now Joram had been with the army Raymonth Gilliad defending Israel against the forces of King has Al of Aram. But King Joram was wounded in the fighting returned to Jezreel to recover from his wounds. So Jayhu told the men with him, if you want me to be king, don't let anyone leave town and go to Jezreel to report what we've done. Then Jayhu got into a chariot and rode to Jezreel to find King Joram, who was lying there wounded. King a Haziah of Judah was there too, for he had gone to visit him. The watchman on the tower of Jezreel saw Jehu and his company approaching, so he shouted to Joram, I see a company troops coming. Send out a rider and ask if they are coming in peace. King Joram ordered, so a horseman went out to meet Jehu and said, the king wants to know if you're coming in peace. Jehu replied, what do you know about peace? Fall in behind me? The watchman called out to the king, the messenger has met them, but he's not returning. So the king sent out a second horseman, and he rode out to them and said, the king wants to know if you come in peace. And Jehu answered, what do you know about peace? Fall in behind me? The watchman exclaimed, the messenger has met them, but he isn't returning either. It must be Jehu, son of Nimshi, for he's driving like a madman. Quick, get my chariot ready, King Joram commanded. Then King Joram of his Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah rode out in their chariots to meet Jehu, and they met him. He at the plot of land that belonged to the Naboth of Jezreel. King Joram demanded, do you come in peace? Jehu? Jay replied, how can they be peace as long as the idolatry and witchcraft your mother Jezebel are all around us. Then King Joram turned the horses around and fled, shouting to a Haziah, treason a Haziah. But Jehu blew, drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart and he sank down dead in his chariot. Jayhu said to Bidkar his officer throw him into the plot of land that belonged the Naboth of Jezreel. Remember when you and I were riding along behind his father Ahab, the Lord pronounced this message against him. I solemnly swear that I will repay him here on this plot of land, says the Lord, for the murder of Naboth and his sons that I saw yesterday. So throw him out on Nabo's property, just as the Lord said. When King a Haziah Judah saw what was happening, he fled along the road to beth Hagan. Jayhu rode after him, shouting, shoot him too. So they a Haziah in his chariot at the ascent of Gurr near Iblaium. He was able to go on as far as Megiddo, but he died there. His servants took him by chariot to Jerusalem, where they buried him and his ancestors in the city of david. A. Haziah had become king over Judah in the eleventh year of the reign of Joram's son of Ah. Well there you go, there you go, or we're not going to read the death of Jezebel. Do I keep reading. Oh I knew, I don't. I stopped at twenty nine. Okay, I guess we're stiff. Hanger Jezebel next left hanger. Yeah, well, I mean, it's not as if I I didn't give give anything away. Got already give it away. He already said that it was gonna happen. That's right, exactly right. You kind of want to read it. You want to read it. It's only a few verses, Okay. When Jezebel the queen mother heard that Jehu had come to Jezreel, she painted her eyelids and fixed her hair and sat at a window. Then Jayhu entered the gate of the palace, and she shouted at him, have you come in piece, you murderer. You're just like Zimri who murdered his man. Jayhu looked up and saw her at the window and shouted, who is on my side? And two or three eunuchs looked out at him. Throw her down, Jayhu yelled, So they threw her out the window, and her blood splattered against the wall on the horses. Well, thanks for this, Chris. Jayhu trampled her body under his horses hoofs. They're alive. Chris. Then jay Whu went into the palace and ate and drank. Afterwards, he said, someone go and bury this cursed woman, for she's the daughter of a king. But when they went out to bury her, they found only her skull, her feet. It just keeps getting worse. It gets worse yet. It's when they returned and told Jaehu. He stated, this fulfills the message from the Lord which she spoke through his servant Elijah from Tishpa. At the plot of land in Jezreel. Dogs will eat Jezebel's body. Her remains will be scattered like dung on the plot of land in Jezreel, so that no one will be able to recognize her. Yeah, well thanks for adding that, but the prophecy appreciated. Prophecy said, nobody's able to bear Yeah, they won't be able to bear it. It's true. It's just her head and skull, and call her hands and feet. So he actually appealed to the unus, the unus who she's been ordering around, you know, who have witnessed her her horrid, horrid reign, right, and all he has to do is say, who's with me? And then they just sort of look down and he's like, throw it down, and they just threw it down. It was common and still is in some of the some kingdoms that the queen's, the princesses, the women in the hair and would be protected by eunuchs, so they would they would castraight young men at a certain age. When when you castraight a young bull, that young bull will get much bigger as a steer than he would be than he would as a just a regular bull, right, because his energy is going to other places. Right, So young steers will usually get bigger once you castrate them. And it's kind of the same concept is that at the right time castrate young man, he would be bigger and stronger, but without the urges. So you could trust these guys to be bodyguard to your to your them. Yeah yeah, so these will be big, strong, muscular men. This is what what kind of how you're thinking. And they're supposed to be her bodyguards and they're done with her too, right. Yeah. It says her blood spattered against the wall. We read that on the horse. Yeah we we we got that. And then then he trampled her body under the horses hoofs. That is rough. It's a rough way to go. Yeah. And and by the way, she painted her eyelids and did her hair right, yeah, so she so she looks, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go up beautiful. That's right. That's right. By the way, when Jayhu shoots an arrow and kills Joram, Yeah, isn't it amazing how Joram comes out himself to meet Jayhu like like it says it says, hey, do you come in? Hey, let's send a rider out. Well, the rider doesn't come back. Let's send another rider out. The rider doesn't come back. Right, So then instead of sending sending like like a battalion of people or something like that, he himself goes out to meet him and says, jay Who, do you come in peace? I don't understand this. Why would he? I guess he just trusted Jayhu. I guess that much because he's a commander. I guess yeah, because he was a commander. I think that had to have been it. Well, I guess what I'm trying to say is jay who's as Simon, came to him a lot easier than he probably expected. Yeah, right, yep. So they turned around, Oh no, they're going to flee and then Jay was like, hey, look there they are, and I have an arrow and I'm a good shot, right, and he just show that's it. He's done. So this says, King a Haziah of Judah was there, right? Why did he kill the Judah king two? Hadn't we determined that a Haziah was a fairly good king? I thought that Joram was this? Send it right? Joram's the descendant? Yeah? Well, you know what, you know me and these names, man, I know, I mean I've already confessed completely that, uh that my brain does not register these names. And so you know when you especially when you have Joram and then Jehoram. Yeah right, what's the other name that sounds like Joran? Jehoram Jehoram j Yeah, and the and the and they're both on the Israel. So Joram is on Israel's Yeah, well Joseph's record, Yeah right there you go, right, Yeah, these names that are super similar are very confusing. So yeah, my brain doesn't register anyways. Ja Hu kills two kings yep, from Judah and Israel. And then he goes and has the the Eunuchs thro Jezebel out the window. Yeah, so when God cleans house. Yep. Well, I mean, you know, it's uh, just like you said before. Remember come days ago you talked about Remember the horrible, horrible things that with with the two mothers and their sons with the besieging of Samaria, remember and and uh and it's it's and it's a it's just one of those things. Uh. So any king that got overthrown. Uh, it was very very very common in those days that if you're in the line or lineage of that king, they would wipe you out right. And by the way, we saw that back with King David. Remember, like everybody fled for their lives because once uh uh you know, somebody took the throne and then then all of a sudden, Remember Bestsheba was fearful for her son Solomon, remember because she thought, oh, no, they're going to come wipe us out immediately, because they're going to threaten our you know, threaten the throne and everything else. Well, this was a prophecy given by It was Elijah is Elijah and uh twenty years before and and uh and so here it comes, and so they must have known the prophecy. They must have known, you know, the story and uh. And so when he says, how can they repeace as long as there's idolatry and witchcraft of your brother Jezebel all around us, and it says, then King Johoram turned the horses and fled. And so he's realizing in that moment, oh, no, time to pay the fiddler, right, like, like, you know, it's come do. But what's the phrase I'm looking for is come do? Something's come do? The roosters came home to roost. No, there's a phrase. It's it's like paying the fiddler. But yeah, I try not to get in your head too much. But but but something, something's due and uh, and it's time. And so I think that I think in that moment when he turned and fled, he must have immediately known that this is the answer to the prophecy. I think he did. I really do. I think so too. So you have here, basically Jay who's going on this pretty bloody coup and it's awful. But it was his assignment. Yeah, it was his assignment. Not because God enjoys blood, right, this was God's way of bringing justice to evil people that had run his nation into the ground. Led those people to worship false gods, even after Elijah called down lightning from heaven, fire from heaven and wiped out the prophets of Baal that Jezebel was funding and astroith right, eight hundred and fifty of them, they restore them. They go get a bunch more, right, even after they saw God do unbelievable things. Dude, I feel like I would only need to see one of those things, right. Think of all of the amazing things Jezebel and Ahab saw in the lives of Elijah and Elishah. And don't forget. Then he said the rain that hasn't rained in three years, he was it three Yeah, he said it's coming, and you better get in your chariot because here it comes, right, and then it comes, So it's not just the fire from heaven. It's then the three year drought is announced by that profit and the rain comes, and. So many things like this that they saw, and yet they continued to worship false gods and leading the people to do horrific things. We've already talked about all the horrific things. Yeah, and then he. Steals so again in twenty years. God seems pretty patient in this doesn't he. Yeah, he seems patient and then finally goes okay, it's time for justice. And God uses men to do his bidding. That's what he does. And so jay Hu doesn't wind up being a great king himself or a good king. He's successful, but he's not always moral. But in this situation, God uses him to bring justice against evil, and God's justice will prevail always. He might be patient, he might allow time to run out for a while, but it's not that God's never going to bring justice. It's just that sometimes he has not yet justice. But justice is coming. Yes, So we're going to read more about Jayhu. But one of the things in the Life Application of Study Bible, it says one of his weakness is mistakes. It says he was devoted to God only to the point that obedience served his own interests. Right, right, So it's just he was devoted to God. He also worshiped jere Boehme's golden calves, Yeah, which he kind of divided. You know. This is what James says. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways, right right, And this this was the issue for him. He had great potential, he had just enough recklessness in him. What you're going to see that he would was willing to take bold initiatives and chances, right, and so he wound up seeing tremendous successes and he was he could rally men to follow him, and he was powerful, but his people could at times prosper. He did a lot of good things like that. But then he's got this. I'm devoted to God because I need. He used God like a good luck charm, that's what he did. But then he also kept Jerrebouem's golden calves because it was a politically expedient. He didn't want to offend everybody. And so you're like, oh, man, he could have been. He could have He could have been the one to turn the tides in northern Israel. He was close, right, but he just didn't. When you go halfway, you really never actually get there with God. You got to go all in. When you go all in, that's when God changes everything for you. And he missed it. So anyways, we'll talk about that over the next little while. Which, by the way, I just want to throw this out there. I am glad that we read the Death of Jezebel, and. I'm sure you just want to get her out of our lives. Oh well, I think about it. It's like this build up where you remember at the end of the Princess Bribe where he goes, uh, well, who kills humper Dick? And he goes nobody and he goes, what, why did you even read me this story? You remember? Outrage? Yeah, he goes, who gets humper Dick? No, no, he lives and he's like what. Yeah. It's like it's like there's a part of you that wants to see Bell, you know, just pay and it's like and it's like, yeah, that was pretty gruesome. But then again, it was Jezebel, right, so you know, hey, you know, you know, I guess I guess there's a part of me, the works part that was like good for you. Well, it's surprising you read these these the Bible. I mean, this isn't the Bible. God wanted us to know that story. Well, hey, listen, it's it's people say it's not interesting, it's boring. It's that boring. I'm like, you have not read the Bible, right, at least you haven't read it with the Bible. Guys. That's right, that's exactly right. Well, that's funny. Okay, well, hey, that is our time together, so hopefully we will see you Monday on the Bible Gosh