26. They brought the sacred pillar out of Baal’s temple and burned it.
27. They tore down Baal’s sacred pillar and destroyed Baal’s temple, turning it into a public restroom, which is what it still is today.
28. This is how Jehu eliminated Baal from Israel.
29. However, Jehu didn’t deviate from the sins that Jeroboam, Nebat’s son, had caused Israel to commit—specifically, the gold calves that were in Bethel and Dan.
30. The Lord said to Jehu: Because you’ve done well by doing what is right in my eyes, treating Ahab’s family as I wished, your descendants will sit on Israel’s throne for four generations.
31. But Jehu wasn’t careful to keep the Lord God of Israel’s Instruction with all his heart. He didn’t deviate from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
32. In those days the Lord began to reduce Israel’s size. Hazael struck them down in every region of Israel:
33. from the Jordan River eastward, throughout the land of Gilead (Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh), and from Aroer by the Arnon Valley (that is, Gilead) and Bashan.
34. The rest of Jehu’s deeds, all that he accomplished, and all his powerful acts, aren’t they written in the official records of Israel’s kings?
35. Jehu lay down with his ancestors. He was buried in Samaria. His son Jehoahaz succeeded him as king.
36. Jehu had ruled over Israel for twenty-eight years in Samaria.