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Jehu Anointed King of Israel

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.H477H5030H7121H259H1121H5030H559H2296H4975H3947H6378H8081H3027H3212H7433H1568 2As 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,H935H7200H3058H1121H3092H1121H5250H935H6965H8432H251H935H2315H2315 3take 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!"H3947H6378H8081H3332H7218H559H559H3068H4886H4428H3478H6605H1817H5127H2442 4So the young man, who was an attendant to the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.H5288H5288H5030H3212H7433H1568 5When 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.H935H8269H2428H3427H559H1697H8269H3058H559H559H8269 6So 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.H6965H935H1004H3332H8081H7218H559H559H3068H430H3478H4886H4428H5971H3068H3478 7You 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.H5221H1004H256H113H5358H1818H5650H5030H1818H5650H3068H3027H348 8The entire household of Ahab will die, and I will cut off from Ahab every male person in Israel, whether imprisoned or surviving.H1004H256H6H3772H256H8366H7023H6113H5800H3478 9I will make the household of Ahab like the household of Nebat's son Jeroboam and the household of Ahijah's son Baasha.H5414H1004H256H1004H3379H1121H5028H1004H1201H1121H281 10Furthermore, the dogs will eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel. There will be no burial for her.'" Then he opened the door and left.H3611H398H348H2506H3157H6912H6605H1817H5127 11As 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.H3058H3318H5650H113H559H7965H935H7696H559H3045H376H7879 12"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."'"H559H8267H5046H559H559H559H559H3068H4886H4428H3478 13At 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!"H4116H3947H376H899H7760H1634H4609H8628H7782H559H3058H4427

Joram (Also Known as Jehoram) is Assassinated

14Meanwhile, 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.H3058H1121H3092H1121H5250H7194H3141H3141H8104H7433H1568H3478H6440H2371H4428H758 15King 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!"H4428H3088H7725H7495H3157H4347H761H5221H3898H2371H4428H758H3058H559H3426H5315H408H3318H6412H5892H3212H5046H3157 16Then Jehu rode by chariot to Jezreel, since Joram was recovering there. King Ahazaiah from Judah had come to visit Joram.15H3058H7392H3212H3157H3141H7901H274H4428H3063H3381H7200H3141 17While 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?'"H5975H6822H4026H3157H7200H8229H3058H935H559H7200H8229H3088H559H3947H7395H7971H7125H559H7965 18So 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."H3212H7392H5483H7125H559H559H4428H7965H3058H559H7965H5437H310H6822H5046H559H4397H935H7725 19Then 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."H7971H8145H7392H5483H935H559H559H4428H7965H3058H559H7965H5437H310 20The watchman reported to Joram, "He arrived there, but he hasn't returned. Also, he drives like Nimshi's son Jehu drives - irrationally!"H6822H5046H559H935H7725H4491H4491H3058H1121H5250H5090H7697 21Joram 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.H3088H559H631H7393H631H3088H4428H3478H274H4428H3063H3318H376H7393H3318H7125H3058H4672H2513H5022H3158 22As 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?"H3088H7200H3058H559H7965H3058H559H7965H5704H2183H517H348H3785H7227 23Joram reined his horse around to flee and cried out to Ahaziah, "Ahaziah! Treachery!"H3088H2015H3027H5127H559H274H4820H274 24But 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.H3058H7198H4390H3027H5221H3088H2220H2678H3318H3820H3766H7393 25After 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:H559H920H7991H5375H7993H2513H7704H5022H3158H2142H7392H6776H310H256H1H3068H5375H4853 26'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."H7200H570H1818H5022H1818H1121H5002H3068H7999H2513H5002H3068H5375H7993H2513H1697H3068

King Ahaziah is Also Killed

27As 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.H274H4428H3063H7200H5127H1870H1588H1004H3058H7291H310H559H5221H4818H4608H1483H2991H5127H4023H4191 28Ahaziah'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.H5650H7392H3389H6912H6900H1H5892H1732 29Ahaziah had begun to reign over Judah in the eleventh year of the reign of Ahab's son Joram.H259H6240H8141H8141H3141H1121H256H274H4427H3063

Jezebel is Executed

30As soon as Jehu arrived at Jezreel, Jezebel adorned her eyes, arranged her hair, and peered out a window.H3058H935H3157H348H8085H7760H6320H5869H3190H7218H8259H2474 31When Jehu had entered through the gate, she asked, "Was Zimri, who murdered his master, received well?"H3058H935H8179H559H2174H7965H2026H113 32Jehu looked up toward the window and called out, "Who is on my side?Who?" When two or three eunuchs looked out at him,H5375H6440H2474H559H8259H8147H7969H5631 33he ordered, "Throw her down!" So they did, and her blood splashed against the wall and on the horses, while Jehu trampled her underfoot.H559H8058H8058H1818H5137H7023H5483H7429 34Later 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."H935H398H8354H559H6485H779H6912H4428H1323 35But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing left of her except her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.H3212H6912H4672H518H1538H7272H3709H3027 36So 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,H7725H5046H559H1697H3068H1696H3027H5650H452H8664H559H2506H3157H3611H398H1320H348 37and 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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