Jehu: The Kingslayer

The Chosen People

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Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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# 230 - Jehu: The Kingslayer - In this episode of The Chosen People with Yael Eckstein, A prophet’s oil crowns a warrior and unleashes a firestorm: Jehu rides hard into 2 Kings 9, toppling Ahab’s house and forcing us to confront the razor’s edge between divine justice and human vengeance. In this episode, we wrestle with anointing without holiness—and why Jesus’ way of the cross tells a different story.Episode 230 of The Chosen People with Yael Eckstein is inspired by the Book of Joshua.Sign up for The Chosen People devotionals at https://www.thechosenpeople.com/sign-upFor more information about Yael Eckstein and IFCJ visit https://www.ifcj.org/Today's opening prayer is inspired by Habakkuk 1:3–4, Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.Listen to some of the greatest Bible stories ever told and make prayer a priority in your life by downloading the Pray.com app.Show Notes:(01:09) Intro with Yael Eckstein(02:45) Jehu: The Kingslayer(27:39) Reflection with Yael Eckstein See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Previously on the Chosen People.
0:03.0	Children burned on their altars.
0:06.0	Women were taken, broken and discarded.
0:10.0	Kings carved their glory from the marrow of their subjects.
0:14.0	Beneath all its beauty, the land groaned beneath the weight of its own corruption.
0:20.0	I gave you this house, this kingdom, this crown.
0:25.9	And had that not been enough, I would have given you more.
0:31.7	Yet you have despised my word.
0:35.5	You have done what is evil in my sight. Blood shall answer blood.
0:40.3	Because you have dealt in violence, so too shall violence rise in your own walls.
0:48.3	But if you or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe my commands if you serve other gods and
0:58.1	worship them Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
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