2 Kings 10:18
Good News Translation
Jehu called the people of Samaria together and said, "King Ahab served the god Baal a little, but I will serve him much more.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab offered Baal small service; but Jehu will offer much more.

Contemporary English Version
Jehu called together the people in Samaria and said: King Ahab sometimes worshiped Baal, but I will be completely faithful to Baal.

New American Bible
Jehu gathered all the people together and said to them: “Ahab served Baal to some extent, but Jehu will serve him yet more.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jehu gathered together all the people, and said to them: Achab worshipped Baal a little, but I will worship him more.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Jehu gathered together all the people, and said to them: Achab worshipped Baal a little, but I will worship him more.

Ahab served Baal

2 Kings 3:2 And he did evil before the Lord, but not like his father and his mother: for he took away the statues of Baal, which his father had made.

1 Kings 16:31,32 Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him. . . .

1 Kings 18:19,22,40 Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me all Israel, unto Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezabel's table. . . .

Jehu

Job 13:7 Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?

Romans 3:8 And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just.

Philippians 4:8 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.

Context
Jehu Kills the Priests of Baal
18And Jehu gathered together all the people, and said to them: Achab worshipped Baal a little, but I will worship him more.19Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, and all his servants, and all his priests: let none be wanting, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal: whosoever shall be wanting, shall not live. Now Jehu did this craftily, that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.…
Cross References
1 Kings 16:31
Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him.

1 Kings 16:32
And he set up an altar for Baal, in the temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria;

2 Kings 3:2
And he did evil before the Lord, but not like his father and his mother: for he took away the statues of Baal, which his father had made.

2 Kings 10:17
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