18Jehu gathered all the people and said to them, Ahab served the Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much.19Now therefore call to me all the prophets of the Baal, all who serve him, and all his priests; let no man be listed, because the sacrifice to the Baal is great for me; whoever is listed shall not live. Jehu acted in cunning in order to destroy the servants of the Baal.20Jehu said, Consecrate an assembly to the Baal. And they called.21Jehu sent throughout all Israel, and all the servants of the Baal came; no man remained who did not come. They came to the house of the Baal, and the house of the Baal was filled from lip to lip.22He said to the one who was in charge of the apparel, "Bring out clothing for all the servants of the Baal." And he brought out the garments to them.23Jehu and Jonadab son of Rechab entered the house of the Baal, and he said to the servants of the Baal, Search and see whether any of the servants of the LORD are here with you, so that only the servants of the Baal remain by themselves.24They came to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Jehu stationed eighty men for himself outside and said, If any man escapes from those whom I bring into your hands, his life shall answer for his life.25When he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the runners and the officers, Go in and strike them down; let no one come out. They struck them down with the edge of the sword, and the runners and the officers threw them aside and went as far as the city of the house of the Baal.26They brought out the pillars of the house of the Baal and burned them.27They tore down the pillar of the Baal, tore down the house of the Baal, and made it into a sewer for refuse until this day.28Jehu destroyed the Baal from Israel.29Yet Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he caused Israel to sin; he did not depart from the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.30The LORD said to Jehu, Because you have done well in doing what is right in my eyes and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in my heart, your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.31Jehu did not keep walking in the instruction of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam by which he caused Israel to sin.32In those days the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel, and Hazael struck them throughout all the territory of Israel.33From the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead belonging to the Gadites, the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer which is on the Arnon River, including Gilead and Bashan.34Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?35Jehu lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria; and Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.36The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.