Verse Lens · Concise explanation
2 Kings 10:12 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 12. 12And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way,
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Quick Meaning
This verse opens the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech: “And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Jehu kills Ahaziah's relatives.”
Ahaziah's relatives are stopped on a greeting journey
This verse is one part of that explanation in 2 Kings 10:12–14. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- 2 Kings 10:12–14
Read 2 Kings 10:12 with 10:12–14. The selected wording supplies one opening in the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: On the road Jehu meets forty-two relatives of Ahaziah who are visiting royal families and has them killed at the shearing house pit.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Jehu kills Ahaziah's relatives,” 2 Kings 10:12 opens the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech through the wording “And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: 2 Kings 10:1–11 establishes this prior movement: Jehu challenges Samaria's guardians, compels them to kill seventy royal sons, displays their heads, and kills Ahab's remaining associates in Jezreel. 2 Kings 10:12–14 continues the same royal, prophetic, household, military, reform, or exile movement; that evidenced relationship, rather than database adjacency alone, explains its placement.
Read 2 Kings 10:12–14 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 10:12–14 forms one scene or regnal notice: On the road Jehu meets forty-two relatives of Ahaziah who are visiting royal families and has them killed at the shearing house pit.
Verse 12. 12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way,
Verse 13. 13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
Verse 14. 14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
What Remains True
Public power, prophetic authority, and worship remain accountable to truth, human responsibility, affected people, and the limits of the evidence rather than title or success alone. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: On the road Jehu meets forty-two relatives of Ahaziah who are visiting royal families and has them killed at the shearing house pit. In 2 Kings 10:12, the concrete line “And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in…” keeps that truth accountable to narrated evidence.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read 2 Kings 10:12–14 — Jehu kills Ahaziah's relativesSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Kings 10:12–14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, royal formulas, clause relationships, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 10:12–14
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 2 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: A unit-bounded translation comparison plus only the lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, or older-English notes actually printed for these verses; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 2 Kings PDF, printed pp. 642–644, translation and translator notes for 10:12–14
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