Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 10:18

18 And Jehu gathered all the people together , and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu shall serve him much .

By their Representatives, their Elders or Rulers, as was usual: to whom he imparts his mind: and they being generally Corrupt, and Time-servers, and such as had no sence of Religion in them, durst not oppose his Resolution, but seemed to comply with it.

As if he had said, My quarrel is onely with Ahab's Family, and not with Baal; which my actions shall manifest. Which words being manifestly false, and spoken with a design to deceive, cannot be excused from Sin, though they were uttered with a pious intention; this being an unmovable Principle, That we must not do the least Evil of Sin, that the greatest good may come, Rom. 3. 8. And if Iehonadab did concur with Iohn herein, it was a Humane Infirmity.