Then Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much.
Jehu, pushing on his work, is here, I. Courting the friendship of a good man, Jehonadab the son of Rechab, Kg2 10:15, Kg2 10:16. This Jehonadab, though mortified to the world and meddling little with the business of it (as appears by his charge to his posterity, which they religiously observed 300 years after, not to drink wine nor dwell in cities, Jer 35:6, etc.)...
Commenting on 2 Kings 10:15-28
And Jehu gathered all the people together,.... The people of Samaria, at least the principal of them: and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu shall serve him much; which some understand as spoken ironically; but the words seem to be spoken with a design to deceive the idolatrous inhabitants of Samaria, making them to believe that he was hearty in the...
And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him much. (h) Here Baal is taken for Ashtaroth the idol of the Zidonians, who Jezebel caused to be worshipped, as it is also so used in .