The Second Book of Kings (WEB)
9:1 Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Gird up your loins,
and take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead. 9:2When you come there, look out
there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from
among his brothers, and carry him to an inner chamber. 9:3Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on
his head, and say, Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel. Then open the door,
and flee, and don't wait. 9:4So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to
Ramoth-gilead. 9:5When he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have
an errand to you, captain. Jehu said, To which of us all? He said, To you, O captain. 9:6He arose,
and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh,
the God of Israel, I have anointed you king over the people of Yahweh, even over Israel. 9:7You
shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the
prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel. 9:8For the whole
house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him who is shut up
and him who is left at large in Israel. 9:9I 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. 9:10The dogs shall eat Jezebel in
the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. He opened the door, and fled. 9:11Then
Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, Is all well? why came this mad
fellow to you? He said to them, You know the man and what his talk was. 9:12They said, It is false;
tell us now. He said, Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed
you king over Israel. 9:13Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it under him
on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king. 9:14So Jehu the son of
Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth-gilead,
he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria; 9:15but 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.) Jehu said, If this be your mind, then let none escape and go forth out of the city, to go to
tell it in Jezreel. 9:16So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. Ahaziah
king of Judah was come down to see Joram. 9:17Now the watchman was standing on the tower in
Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. Joram said,
Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace? 9:18So there went one on
horseback to meet him, and said, Thus says the king, Is it peace? Jehu said, What have you to do
with peace? turn you behind me. The watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he
isn't coming back. 9:19Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, Thus
says the king, Is it peace? Jehu answered, What have you to do with peace? turn you behind me.
9:20The watchman told, saying, He came even to them, and isn't coming back: and the driving is
like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously. 9:21Joram said, Make ready.
They made ready his chariot. Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his
chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. 9:22It
happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? He answered, What peace, so
long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound? 9:23Joram turned his
hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, Ahaziah. 9:24Jehu drew his bow with his
full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk
down in his chariot. 9:25Then 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 you rode together after
Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him: 9:26Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of
Naboth, and the blood of his sons, says Yahweh; and I will requite you in this plat, says Yahweh.
Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of Yahweh. 9:27But
when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden-house. Jehu followed
after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot: and they struck him at the ascent of Gur, which
is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there. 9:28His servants carried him in a chariot to
Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David. 9:29In the eleventh year
of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah. 9:30When Jehu was come to Jezreel,
Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.
9:31As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Is it peace, you Zimri, your master's murderer? 9:32He
lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? There looked out to him two
or three eunuchs. 9:33He 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 trod her under foot. 9:34When he was come in,
he ate and drink; and he said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's
daughter. 9:35They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and
the palms of her hands. 9:36Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, This is the word of
Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall
the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel; 9:37and the body of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the
field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
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