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2Kings 9
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Jehu Anointed as Israel’s King

9The prophet Elisha called one of the sons of the prophets and said, "Tuck your mantle under your belt, take this flask of oil with you, and go to Ramoth-gilead.H477H5030H7121H259H1121H5030H559H2296H4975H3947H6378H8081H3027H3212H7433H1568
2When you get there, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi. Go in, get him away from his colleagues, and take him to an inner room.H935H7200H3058H1121H3092H1121H5250H935H6965H8432H251H935H2315H2315
3Then, take the flask of oil, pour it on his head, and say, 'This is what the LORD says: "I anoint you king over Israel." ' Open the door and escape. Don't wait."H3947H6378H8081H3332H7218H559H559H3068H4886H4428H3478H6605H1817H5127H2442
4So the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead.H5288H5288H5030H3212H7433H1568
5When he arrived, the army commanders were sitting there, so he said, "I have a message for you, commander." Jehu asked, "For which one of us?" He answered, "For you, commander."H935H8269H2428H3427H559H1697H8269H3058H559H559H8269
6So Jehu got up and went into the house. The young prophet poured the oil on his head and said, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'I anoint you king over the LORD's people, Israel.H6965H935H1004H3332H8081H7218H559H559H3068H430H3478H4886H4428H5971H3068H3478
7You are to strike down the house of your master Ahab so that I may avenge the blood shed by the hand of Jezebel— the blood of My servants the prophets and of all the servants of the LORD.H5221H1004H256H113H5358H1818H5650H5030H1818H5650H3068H3027H348
8The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will eliminate all of Ahab's males, both slave and free, in Israel.H1004H256H6H3772H256H8366H7023H6113H5800H3478
9I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah.H5414H1004H256H1004H3379H1121H5028H1004H1201H1121H281
10The dogs will eat Jezebel in the plot of land at Jezreel— no one will bury her.' " Then the young prophet opened the door and escaped.H3611H398H348H2506H3157H6912H6605H1817H5127
11When Jehu came out to his master's servants, they asked, "Is everything all right? Why did this crazy person come to you?" Then he said to them, "You know the sort and their ranting."H3058H3318H5650H113H559H7965H935H7696H559H3045H376H7879
12But they replied, "[That's] a lie! Tell us!" So Jehu said, "He talked to me about this and that and said, 'This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.'"H559H8267H5046H559H559H559H559H3068H4886H4428H3478
13Each man quickly took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. They blew the ram's horn and proclaimed, "Jehu is king!"H4116H3947H376H899H7760H1634H4609H8628H7782H559H3058H4427
14Then Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. Joram and all Israel had been at Ramoth-gilead on guard against Hazael king of Aram.H3058H1121H3092H1121H5250H7194H3141H3141H8104H7433H1568H3478H6440H2371H4428H758
15But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought against Aram's King Hazael. Jehu said, "If you [commanders] wish [to make me king], then don't let anyone escape from the city to go tell about it in Jezreel."H4428H3088H7725H7495H3157H4347H761H5221H3898H2371H4428H758H3058H559H3426H5315H408H3318H6412H5892H3212H5046H3157

Jehu Kills Joram and Ahaziah

16Jehu got into his chariot and went to Jezreel since Joram was laid up there and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to visit Joram.H3058H7392H3212H3157H3141H7901H274H4428H3063H3381H7200H3141
17Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel. He saw Jehu's troops approaching and shouted, "I see troops!" Joram responded, "Choose a rider and send him to meet them and have him ask, '[Do you come in] peace?'"H5975H6822H4026H3157H7200H8229H3058H935H559H7200H8229H3088H559H3947H7395H7971H7125H559H7965
18So a horseman went to meet Jehu and said, "This is what the king asks: '[Do you come in] peace?' " Jehu replied, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me." The watchman reported, "The messenger reached them but hasn't started back."H3212H7392H5483H7125H559H559H4428H7965H3058H559H7965H5437H310H6822H5046H559H4397H935H7725
19So he sent out a second horseman, who went to them and said, "This is what the king asks: '[Do you come in] peace?' " Jehu answered, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me."H7971H8145H7392H5483H935H559H559H4428H7965H3058H559H7965H5437H310
20Again the watchman reported, "He reached them but hasn't started back. Also, the driving is like that of Jehu son of Nimshi— he drives like a madman."H6822H5046H559H935H7725H4491H4491H3058H1121H5250H5090H7697
21"Harness!" Joram shouted, and they harnessed his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his own chariot, and met Jehu at the plot of land of Naboth the Jezreelite.H3088H559H631H7393H631H3088H4428H3478H274H4428H3063H3318H376H7393H3318H7125H3058H4672H2513H5022H3158
22When Joram saw Jehu he asked, "[Do you come in] peace, Jehu?" He answered, "What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and witchcraft from your mother Jezebel?"H3088H7200H3058H559H7965H3058H559H7965H5704H2183H517H348H3785H7227
23Joram turned around and fled, shouting to Ahaziah, "It's treachery, Ahaziah!"H3088H2015H3027H5127H559H274H4820H274
24Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow went through his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot.H3058H7198H4390H3027H5221H3088H2220H2678H3318H3820H3766H7393
25Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, "Pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember when you and I were riding side by side behind his father Ahab, and the LORD uttered this oracle against him:H559H920H7991H5375H7993H2513H7704H5022H3158H2142H7392H6776H310H256H1H3068H5375H4853
26'As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday,' this is the LORD's message, 'so will I repay you on this plot of land,' this is the LORD's message. So now, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of land."H7200H570H1818H5022H1818H1121H5002H3068H7999H2513H5002H3068H5375H7993H2513H1697H3068
27When King Ahaziah of Judah saw [what was happening], he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. Jehu pursued him, shouting, "Shoot him too!" So they shot him in his chariot at Gur Pass near Ibleam, but he fled to Megiddo and died there.H274H4428H3063H7200H5127H1870H1588H1004H3058H7291H310H559H5221H4818H4608H1483H2991H5127H4023H4191
28Then his servants carried him to Jerusalem in a chariot and buried him in his fathers' tomb in the city of David.H5650H7392H3389H6912H6900H1H5892H1732
29It was in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab that Ahaziah had become king over Judah.H259H6240H8141H8141H3141H1121H256H274H4427H3063

Jehu Kills Jezebel

30When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard about it, so she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from the window.H3058H935H3157H348H8085H7760H6320H5869H3190H7218H8259H2474
31As Jehu entered the gate, she said, "[Do you come in] peace, Zimri, killer of your master?"H3058H935H8179H559H2174H7965H2026H113
32He looked up toward the window and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three eunuchs looked down at him,H5375H6440H2474H559H8259H8147H7969H5631
33and he said, "Throw her down!" So they threw her down, and some of her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses, and Jehu rode over her.H559H8058H8058H1818H5137H7023H5483H7429
34Then he went in, ate and drank, and said, "Take care of this cursed woman and bury her, since she's a king's daughter."H935H398H8354H559H6485H779H6912H4428H1323
35But when they went out to bury her, they did not find anything but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.H3212H6912H4672H518H1538H7272H3709H3027
36So they went back and told him, and he said, "This [fulfills] the LORD's word that He spoke through His servant Elijah the Tishbite: 'In the plot of land at Jezreel, the dogs will eat Jezebel's flesh.H7725H5046H559H1697H3068H1696H3027H5650H452H8664H559H2506H3157H3611H398H1320H348
37Jezebel's corpse will be like manure on the surface of the field in the plot of land at Jezreel so that no one will [be able] to say: This is Jezebel.'"H5038H348H1828H6440H7704H2506H3157H559H348


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