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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
2 Kings 10:29–36, “Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan. And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin. In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel; From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan. Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead. And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.”
While Jehu removed the Baal worship, introduced by Ahab from Israel, he didn’t do anything to remove Jeroboam’s false form of worship. The Lord accepted the fact that Jehu had rescued Israel from a complete return to the ways of the Amorites and promised him that his descendants, to the fourth generation, would rule on the throne of Judah. The fourth generation was a very important generation in the Lord’s accounting. Israel’s ancestors were to be delivered from bondage in the fourth generation (Gen 15: 12-16). The Lord also promised to visit the iniquity of people to bowed down to false gods and refused to bow down to the Lord to the third and fourth generation. (Ex 20: 5) However, because Jehu refused to deliver Israel from Jeroboam’s sin, the Lord allowed Israel’s borders to whittled away during his time. The area of Israel beyond the Jordan River were invaded by the Syrians. After a 28 year reign Jehu died and his son Jehoahaz became king in his place.
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