However ... yet

II Kings 10:31 Yet Jehu was not careful to keep the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart.  He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, which he had caused Israel to commit.

Jehu was chosen by God and anointed by Elisha’s servant to be king and to do away with King Ahab and his wife Jezebel and the wickedness they had brought to Israel.  He accomplished that, and he destroyed the servants of Baal as a part of that cleansing of Israel.  For that obedience, God blessed him with the promise that four generations of his would be succeeding him as kings.  One has to wonder what other blessings Jehu missed out on because of the “howevers” and the “yets” in this story: 1) HOWEVER, Jehu did not turn away from the worship of the golden calves, and 2) YET he was not careful to keep the law of the Lord, two things I am pretty sure Jehu saw as “minor issues,” but they were enough to keep God’s full blessing of prosperity at bay.  Israel decreased and was eventually overtaken by an enemy.  That disastrous future might have been avoided had Jehu completely and carefully followed God.