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Go in, get him away from his companions, and take him to an inner room. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then take the flask of oil, pour it on his head, and declare, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and run. Do not delay!” <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and when he arrived, the army commanders were sitting there. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said. <p class="reg">“For which of us?” asked Jehu. <p class="reg">“For you, commander,” he replied. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Jehu got up and went into the house, where the young prophet poured the oil on his head and declared, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the LORD’s people Israel. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> both slave and free, in Israel. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I will make the house of Ahab like the houses of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And on the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour Jezebel, and there will be no one to bury her.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <p class="reg"> Then the young prophet opened the door and ran. <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When Jehu went out to the servants of his master, they asked, “Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?” <p class="reg">“You know his kind and their babble,” he replied. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“That is a lie!” they said. “Tell us now!” <p class="reg"> So Jehu answered, “He talked to me about this and that, and he said, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Quickly, each man took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. Then they blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!” <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">Jehu Kills Joram and Ahaziah<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_chronicles/22.htm#8">2 Chronicles 22:8–9</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thus Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. <p class="reg">(Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>but King Joram<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the battle against Hazael their king.) <p class="reg"> So Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king, then do not let anyone escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.” <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then Jehu got into his chariot and went to Jezreel, because Joram was laid up there and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see him. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, and he called out, “I see a company of troops!” <p class="reg">“Choose a rider,” Joram commanded. “Send him out to meet them and ask, ‘Have you come in peace?’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So a horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <p class="reg">“What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” <p class="reg"> And the watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.” <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So the king sent out a second horseman, who went to them and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <p class="reg">“What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the charioteer is driving like Jehu son of Nimshi<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span>—he is driving like a madman!” <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Harness!” Joram shouted, and they harnessed his chariot. <p class="reg"> Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his own chariot, and met Jehu on the property of Naboth the Jezreelite. <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” <p class="reg">“How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?” <A name="24"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Joram turned around<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!” <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot. <A name="26"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him: <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.” <A name="28"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. <p class="reg"> And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” <p class="reg"> So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">g</a></span> near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then his servants carried him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him with his fathers in his tomb in the City of David. <A name="30"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>(In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.) <A name="31"></a><p class="hdg">Jezebel’s Violent Death<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And as Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, O Zimri, murderer of your master?”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">h</a></span> <A name="33"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” <p class="reg"> And two or three eunuchs looked down at him. <A name="34"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>“Throw her down!” yelled Jehu. <p class="reg"> So they threw her down, and her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses as they trampled her underfoot. <A name="35"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Then Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of this cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was the daughter of a king.” <A name="36"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands. <A name="37"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>So they went back and told Jehu, who replied, “This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke through His servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour the flesh of Jezebel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And Jezebel’s body will lie like dung in the field on the plot of ground at Jezreel, so that no one can say: This is Jezebel.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">i</a></span>”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Literally <i>Gird up your loins</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Literally <i>(all) those who urinate against a wall</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>Jehoram</i><span class="thin"> </span>, a variant of <i>Joram</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verses 17, 21, 22, 23, and 24<br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>grandson of Nimshi</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see verse 14.<br><span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> Hebrew <i>adultery</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>prostitution</i><span class="thin"> </span>, here a metaphor for idolatry<br><span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> Literally <i>turned his hands</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotesbot">g</span> See Syriac, Vulgate, and LXX; Hebrew <i>“Shoot him, too, in his chariot!” (They did this) on the Ascent of Gur,</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">31</span> <span class="footnotesbot">h</span> Or <i>“Is there peace for Zimri, the murderer of his master?”</i><span class="thin"> </span> See <a href="../1_kings/16.htm#10">1 Kings 16:10</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">37</span> <span class="footnotesbot">i</span> See verse 10 and <a href="../1_kings/21.htm#23">1 Kings 21:23</a>.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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