Today, I am reading and commenting on  2 Kings 10-12.

Today’s passage begins with the acts Jehu took to consolidate his control over Israel, the Northern Kingdom.  One of the key things we learn about Jehu’s desire to serve God comes from his interaction with Jehonadab, whose descendants are later held up by Jeremiah as examples of faithfully following God.  The passage tells us that Jehu completely wiped out Baal worship in Israel.  Unfortunately, he was unwilling to get rid of the calf idols which Jeroboam had constructed and continued the practice of worshiping them.  Which suggests that, those who lived in the Northern Kingdom, Israel, considered that those who worshiped according to the practices established by Jeroboam thought they were following the covenant which God had established with their ancestors.  I suspect that leaders, such as Jehu, knew better, but convinced themselves otherwise out of political expediency.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.