people at God’s command; in fact, the Lord commended him for his obedience. This was because God wanted all these people to be destroyed because they were steeped in Baal worship. He ordered that these heathen practices be eradicated from the land. So Jehu undertook this carnage, and he was rewarded by God’s promise that his descendants would reign in the land until the fourth generation (2 Kings 10:30). The question arises, then: ‘If God commended Jehu, why did he tell Hosea that he would “punish