“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.” (2 Kings 9:1-37 AV)
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