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9Elisha called one of the members of the Guild of Prophets and told him, "Get ready to run, take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.H477H5030H7121H259H1121H5030H559H2296H4975H3947H6378H8081H3027H3212H7433H15682As soon as you get there, go find Jehoshaphat's son Jehu, the grandson of Nimshi. When you do, go in, tell him to get up and go apart with you away from his brothers. Lead him into a private chamber,H935H7200H3058H1121H3092H1121H5250H935H6965H8432H251H935H2315H23153take the flask of oil, and pour it out on his head. Then tell him, 'This is what the Lord says: I'm anointing you king over Israel.' Then open the door and leave. Don't linger there!"H3947H6378H8081H3332H7218H559H559H3068H4886H4428H3478H6605H1817H5127H24424So the young man, who was an attendant to the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.H5288H5288H5030H3212H7433H15685When he arrived, the army commanders were seated, so he said, "I have a message for you, captain!" Jehu asked, "For which one of us?" "For you, captain!" he answered.H935H8269H2428H3427H559H1697H8269H3058H559H559H82696So Jehu got up and went inside the house, and the young man told him, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: 'I have anointed you king over the people of the Lord - that is, over Israel.H6965H935H1004H3332H8081H7218H559H559H3068H430H3478H4886H4428H5971H3068H34787You are to attack the household of your master Ahab, so I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, as well as the blood of all of the servants of the Lord that has been spilled at Jezebel's orders.H5221H1004H256H113H5358H1818H5650H5030H1818H5650H3068H3027H3488The entire household of Ahab will die, and I will cut off from Ahab every male person in Israel, whether imprisoned or surviving.H1004H256H6H3772H256H8366H7023H6113H5800H34789I will make the household of Ahab like the household of Nebat's son Jeroboam and the household of Ahijah's son Baasha.H5414H1004H256H1004H3379H1121H5028H1004H1201H1121H28110Furthermore, the dogs will eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel. There will be no burial for her.'" Then he opened the door and left.H3611H398H348H2506H3157H6912H6605H1817H512711As Jehu was coming out to his master's attendants, one of them asked him, "Is everything all right?Why did this maniac visit you?" "You know the man and how he speculates," Jehu replied.H3058H3318H5650H113H559H7965H935H7696H559H3045H376H787912"That's a lie!" they said. "Tell us what's going on!" "He said 'This and that' to me," he responded. "'This is what the Lord says: "I have anointed you king over Israel."'"H559H8267H5046H559H559H559H559H3068H4886H4428H347813At this, each man quickly grabbed his own garment, placed it under him at the top of the stairs, sounded a trumpet, and announced, "Jehu is king!"H4116H3947H376H899H7760H1634H4609H8628H7782H559H3058H442714Meanwhile, Jehoshaphat's son Jehu, the grandson of Nimshi had been conspiring against Joram while Joram and all the army of Israel had been defending Ramoth-gilead against King Hazael from Aram.H3058H1121H3092H1121H5250H7194H3141H3141H8104H7433H1568H3478H6440H2371H4428H75815King Jehoram had returned to Jezreel to recover from wounds he had sustained from the Arameans when he had fought against King Hazael from Aram. So Jehu concluded, "Since this is what you've decided, then let no one get away, leave the city, and go report to Jezreel!"H4428H3088H7725H7495H3157H4347H761H5221H3898H2371H4428H758H3058H559H3426H5315H408H3318H6412H5892H3212H5046H315716Then Jehu rode by chariot to Jezreel, since Joram was recovering there. King Ahazaiah from Judah had come to visit Joram.15H3058H7392H3212H3157H3141H7901H274H4428H3063H3381H7200H314117While the watchman was standing guard in the tower at Jezreel, he watched Jehu's entourage arrive. So he called out, "I see a group arriving." Joram ordered, "Take a horseman, send him out to meet them, and have him ask, 'Have you come in peace?'"H5975H6822H4026H3157H7200H8229H3058H935H559H7200H8229H3088H559H3947H7395H7971H7125H559H796518So a horseman went out, greeted Jehu and said, "This is what the king said: 'Have you come in peace?'" But Jehu responded, "What do you have to do with peace?Fall in behind me." The watchman reported, "The messenger arrived there, but he hasn't returned."H3212H7392H5483H7125H559H559H4428H7965H3058H559H7965H5437H310H6822H5046H559H4397H935H772519Then Joram sent out a second horseman, who went out to them and said, "This is what the king said: 'Have you come in peace?'" Jehu responded, "What do you have to do with peace?Fall in behind me."H7971H8145H7392H5483H935H559H559H4428H7965H3058H559H7965H5437H31020The watchman reported to Joram, "He arrived there, but he hasn't returned. Also, he drives like Nimshi's son Jehu drives - irrationally!"H6822H5046H559H935H7725H4491H4491H3058H1121H5250H5090H769721Joram replied, "Let's begin our attack!" As soon as his chariot was prepared, both King Joram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah went out, each in his own chariot, to fight against Jehu. They met together in the property that had belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite.H3088H559H631H7393H631H3088H4428H3478H274H4428H3063H3318H376H7393H3318H7125H3058H4672H2513H5022H315822As soon as Joram noticed Jehu, he cried out, "Peace, Jehu?" Jehu replied, "What peace, given your mother Jezebel's prostitution and all of her witchcraft?"H3088H7200H3058H559H7965H3058H559H7965H5704H2183H517H348H3785H722723Joram reined his horse around to flee and cried out to Ahaziah, "Ahaziah! Treachery!"H3088H2015H3027H5127H559H274H4820H27424But Jehu drew his bow with all of his strength, shooting Joram between his shoulder blades. The arrow pierced his heart, and he collapsed in his chariot.H3058H7198H4390H3027H5221H3088H2220H2678H3318H3820H3766H739325After this, Jehu called out to Bidkar, his third in command, "Pick up Joram's body and throw it in the field, the property that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite, because you and I remember how when we were riding together in pursuit of his father Ahab, that the Lord pronounced this oracle against him:H559H920H7991H5375H7993H2513H7704H5022H3158H2142H7392H6776H310H256H1H3068H5375H485326'This is what the Lord says, "I have certainly observed the blood of Naboth and his sons, and I will repay you on this property," declares the Lord.' "Therefore take the body and throw it in the field, just as the Lord said."H7200H570H1818H5022H1818H1121H5002H3068H7999H2513H5002H3068H5375H7993H2513H1697H306827As soon as King Ahaziah of Judah observed this, he attempted to flee by the garden house road, but Jehu pursued him. At the ascent toward Gur which is near Ibleam, he ordered, "Shoot him in the chariot, too!" Ahaziah fled to Megiddo, where he died.H274H4428H3063H7200H5127H1870H1588H1004H3058H7291H310H559H5221H4818H4608H1483H2991H5127H4023H419128Ahaziah's servants transported the king's body by chariot to Jerusalem and buried it in his own sepulcher near his ancestors in the city of David.H5650H7392H3389H6912H6900H1H5892H173229Ahaziah had begun to reign over Judah in the eleventh year of the reign of Ahab's son Joram.H259H6240H8141H8141H3141H1121H256H274H4427H306330As soon as Jehu arrived at Jezreel, Jezebel adorned her eyes, arranged her hair, and peered out a window.H3058H935H3157H348H8085H7760H6320H5869H3190H7218H8259H247431When Jehu had entered through the gate, she asked, "Was Zimri, who murdered his master, received well?"H3058H935H8179H559H2174H7965H2026H11332Jehu looked up toward the window and called out, "Who is on my side?Who?" When two or three eunuchs looked out at him,H5375H6440H2474H559H8259H8147H7969H563133he ordered, "Throw her down!" So they did, and her blood splashed against the wall and on the horses, while Jehu trampled her underfoot.H559H8058H8058H1818H5137H7023H5483H742934Later on, after he had come in to eat and drink, he ordered, "Go and see to this cursed woman, and bury her, because she was a king's daughter."H935H398H8354H559H6485H779H6912H4428H132335But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing left of her except her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.H3212H6912H4672H518H1538H7272H3709H302736So they returned and reported to Jehu, and he responded, "This fulfills the word of the Lord that he spoke through his servant Elijah the foreigner, who said: 'Dogs will eat Jezebel's flesh on the property of Jezreel,H7725H5046H559H1697H3068H1696H3027H5650H452H8664H559H2506H3157H3611H398H1320H34837and her corpse will lie like dung on the surface of the field on the property in Jezreel, but no one will say, "This is Jezebel."'"H5038H348H1828H6440H7704H2506H3157H559H348
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