To this point Jehu has not had much time for anything but rapid destruction. In the next episode (10:1–17) he appears more calculating. There is a grisly irony with Jehu’s letters: through a letter Jezebel secured the death of Naboth in Jezreel, and now by a similar means Jehu destroys Ahab’s offspring by sending correspondence to the same address. Jehu’s intimidating epistle—not dissimilar to Jezebe…