24. Then they proceeded to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty troops outside with this warning, “Any of you who lets someone escape of those whom I shall deliver into your hands shall pay life for life.”
25. As soon as he finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and aides, “Go in and slay them. Let no one escape.” So the guards and aides put them to the sword and cast them out. Afterward they went into the inner shrine of the temple of Baal,
26. and took out the pillars of the temple of Baal. They burned the shrine,
27. tore down the pillar of Baal, tore down the temple of Baal, and turned it into a latrine, as it remains today.
28. Thus Jehu destroyed Baal in Israel.
29. However, Jehu did not desist from the sins which Jeroboam, son of Nebat, had caused Israel to commit, the golden calves at Bethel and at Dan.
30. The Lord said to Jehu: Because you have done well 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 upon the throne of Israel.
31. But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart, since he did not desist from the sins which Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
32. At that time the Lord began to dismember Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory
33. east of the Jordan (all the land of Gilead, of the Gadites, Reubenites, and Manassites), from Aroer on the wadi Arnon up through Gilead and Bashan.
34. The rest of the acts of Jehu, with all that he did and all his valor, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
35. Jehu rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria, and his son Jehoahaz succeeded him as king.
36. The length of Jehu’s reign over Israel was twenty-eight years in Samaria.