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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:
02 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;
03 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.
04 So the young man, even the young man the
prophet, went to Ramothgilead.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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:
09 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.
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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.
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