2KI-9:1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the
prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this
box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
2KI-9:2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the
son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him
arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner
chamber;
2KI-9:3 Then take the box of oil, and pour [it] on his head, and
say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.
Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
2KI-9:4 So the young man, [even] the young man the prophet, went
to Ramothgilead.
2KI-9:5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host
[were] sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain.
And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O
captain.
2KI-9:6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the
oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD,
[even] over Israel.
2KI-9:7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that
I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the
blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
2KI-9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut
off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is
shut up and left in Israel:
2KI-9:9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son
of Ahijah:
2KI-9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of
Jezreel, and [there shall be] none to bury [her]. And he opened
the door, and fled.
2KI-9:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and
[one] said unto him, [Is] all well? wherefore came this mad
[fellow] to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and
his communication.
2KI-9:12 And they said, [It is] false; tell us now. And he said,
Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I
have anointed thee king over Israel.
2KI-9:13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and
put [it] under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with
trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
2KI-9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi
conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he
and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
2KI-9:15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of
the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with
Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds,
[then] let none go forth [nor] escape out of the city to go to
tell [it] in Jezreel.
2KI-9:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for
Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see
Joram.
2KI-9:17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and
he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a
company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them,
and let him say, [Is it] peace?
2KI-9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said,
Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu said, What hast
thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman
told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not
again.
2KI-9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to
them, and said, Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu
answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
2KI-9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them,
and cometh not again: and the driving [is] like the driving of
Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
2KI-9:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made
ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went
out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and
met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
2KI-9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said,
[Is it] peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the
whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so]
many?
2KI-9:23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to
Ahaziah, [There is] treachery, O Ahaziah.
2KI-9:24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote
Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart,
and he sunk down in his chariot.
2KI-9:25 Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, [and]
cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite:
for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab
his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
2KI-9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and
the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee
in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him
into the plat [of ground], according to the word of the LORD.
2KI-9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw [this], he fled
by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and
said, Smite him also in the chariot. [And they did so] at the
going up to Gur, which [is] by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo,
and died there.
2KI-9:28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem,
and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of
David.
2KI-9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began
Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
2KI-9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of
it]; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked
out at a window.
2KI-9:31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, [Had]
Zimri peace, who slew his master?
2KI-9:32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who
[is] on my side? who? And there looked out to him two [or] three
eunuchs.
2KI-9:33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down:
and [some] of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the
horses: and he trode her under foot.
2KI-9:34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said,
Go, see now this cursed [woman], and bury her: for she [is] a
king's daughter.
2KI-9:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of
her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.
2KI-9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said,
This [is] the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant
Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall
dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
2KI-9:37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the
face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they
shall not say, This [is] Jezebel.
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