¹⁷ “It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands.

³⁰ The Lord said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in accomplishing what is right in my eyes and have done to the house of Ahab all I had in mind to do, your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”^(A)

¹² So the word of the Lord spoken to Jehu was fulfilled:^(A) “Your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”^[a]

⁴ Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel,^(A) because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.