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23 And when Jehu and Jehonadab, the son of Rechab, went into the house of Baal, he said to the servants of Baal, “Search diligently and look, lest there be here with you any of the servants of the LORD, and not just the servants of Baal.”

24 And when they went in to make sacrifice and burnt offering, Jehu appointed eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escapes, his soul shall be for his soul.”

25 And when he finished the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard, and to the captains, “Go in. Kill them. Do not let a man come out.” And they struck them with the edge of the sword. And the guard and the captains cast them out and went to the city, to the temple of Baal.

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