Bible Strands
2 Kings 15:12
So the word of the LORD spoken to Jehu was fulfilled: “Four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records the completion of a prior divine declaration made to Jehu, placed immediately after the death of Zechariah and the brief accession of Shallum.
The words — דְבַר\־ (de.var-) = the word of, and דִּבֶּ֤ר (di.Ber) = he had spoken, anchor the clause that identifies the event as the execution of a specific utterance directed to Jehu.
The thread — The original declaration appears in 2 Kings 10:30, is historically contextualized by events in 2 Kings 9:25 and 13:10, and reaches its stated endpoint here.
Why it lands — The text reports a precise prophetic timeline being met through dynastic succession, requiring the reader to verify divine utterance against recorded royal chronology.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
This was the word of the Lord which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 10:30 Nevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”
- 2 Kings 9:25 And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him:
- 2 Kings 13:10 In the thirty-seventh year of the reign of Joash over Judah, Jehoash son of Jehoahaz became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years.
- 2 Kings 13:13 And Jehoash rested with his fathers, and Jeroboam succeeded him on the throne. Jehoash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
- 2 Kings 14:29 And Jeroboam rested with his fathers, the kings of Israel. And his son Zechariah reigned in his place.
- Zechariah 1:6 But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”
- Mark 13:31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- John 10:35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—
- John 19:24 So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it. Instead, let us cast lots to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My garments among them, and cast lots for My clothing.” So that is what the soldiers did.
- John 19:36 Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”