2 Kings 9
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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:
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;
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.
4 So the young man, even the young
man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled,
and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the
son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
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.
31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she
said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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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