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2 Kings 9:8

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For the whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.

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Contradictions (1)

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  • Did God commend or condemn Jehu for the killings at Jezreel?

    2 Kings 9:6-8 has God commission Jehu to wipe out the house of Ahab, an instruction Jehu carries out with extreme violence at Jezreel. Hosea 1:4 has the same God announce he will avenge "the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu" — meaning he will punish Jehu's dynasty for the very killings he ordered.

    Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.

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