which he would offer those sacrifices, he sent
messengers through all the country of the Israelites, that they might
bring the priests of Baal to him. So Jehu commanded to give all the
priests vestments; and when they had received them, he went into the
house [of Baal], with his friend Jehonadab, and gave orders to make
search whether there were not any foreigner or stranger among them, for
he would have no one of a different religion to mix among their sacred
offices. And when they said that there was no stranger there, and they
were beginning their sacrifices, he set fourscore men without, they
being such of his soldiers as he knew to be most faithful to him, and
bid them slay the prophets, and now vindicate the laws of their country,
which had been a long time in disesteem. He also threatened, that if any
one of them escaped, their own lives should go for them. So they slew
them all with the sword, and burnt the house of Baal, and by that means
purged Samaria of foreign customs [idolatrous worship]. Now this
Baal was the god of the Tyrians; and Ahab, in order to gratify his
father-in-law, Ethbaal, who was the king of Tyre and Sidon, built a
temple for him in Samaria, and appointed him prophets, and worshipped
him with all sorts of worship, although, when this god was demolished,
Jehu permitted the Israelites to worship the golden heifers. However,
because he had done thus, and taken care to punish the wicked, God
foretold by his prophet that his sons should reign over Israel for four
generations. And in this condition was Jehu at this time.

CHAPTER 7. How Athaliah Reigned Over Jerusalem For Five [Six] Years When
Jehoiada The High Priest Slew Her And Made Jehoash, The Son Of Ahaziah,
King.

1. Now when Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab, heard of the death of her
brother Joram, and of her son Ahaziah, and of the royal family, she
endeavored that none of the house of David might be left alive, but that
the whole family might be exterminated, that no king might arise out of
it afterward; and, as she thought, she had actually done it; but one
of Ahaziah's sons was preserved, who escaped death after the manner
following: Ahaziah had a sister by the same father, whose name was
Jehosheba, and she was married to the high priest Jehoiada. She went
into the king's palace, and found Jehoash, for that was the little
child's name, who was not above a year old, among those that were slain,
but concealed with his nurse; so s