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Then open the doore, and flee without any tarying.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So the seruat of ye Prophet gate him 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 came in, behold, the captaines of the armie were sitting; he sayde, I haue a message to thee, O captaine; Iehu sayd, Vnto which of all vs? And he answered, To thee, O captaine. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he arose, and went into the house, and he powred the oyle on his head and sayde vnto him, Thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel, I haue anointed thee for King ouer the people of the Lord, euen ouer Israel. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may auenge the blood of my seruants the Prophets, and the blood of al the seruants of the Lord of the hand of Iezebel. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For the whole house of Ahab shalbe destroied: and I will cut off from Ahab, him that maketh water against the wall, as well him that is shut vp, as him that is left in Israel. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the sonne of Ahiiah. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the dogges shall eate Iezebel in the fielde of Izreel, and there shalbe none to burie her; he opened the doore, and fled.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Iehu came out to the seruants of his lord; one sayd vnto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellowe to thee? And hee sayde vnto them, Ye knowe the man, and what his talke was. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they sayde, It is false, tell vs it nowe. Then he sayd, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saieth the Lorde, I haue anointed thee for King ouer Israel. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then they made haste, and tooke euerie man his garment, and put it vnder him on the top of the staires, and blewe the trumpet, saying, Iehu is King.<p> <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><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So Iehu ye sonne of Iehoshaphat the sonne of Nimshi conspired against Ioram: (Now Ioram kept Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael King of Aram. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And King Ioram returned to bee healed in Izreel of the woundes, which the Aramites had giuen him, when hee fought with Hazael King of Aram) and Iehu sayde, If it be your mindes, let no man depart and escape out of the citie, to goe and tell in Izreel. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So Iehu gate vp into a charet, and went to Izreel: for Ioram lay there, and Ahaziah King of Iudah was come downe to see Ioram.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the watchman that stoode in the towre in Izreel spyed the companie of Iehu as hee came, & sayd, I see a companie; Iehoram said, Take a horseman and send to meete them, that hee may say, Is it peace? <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So there went one on horseback to meete him, and sayde, Thus sayth the King, Is it peace? And Iehu sayd, What hast thou to do with peace? Turne behinde me; the watchman tolde, saying, The messenger came to them, but he commeth not againe. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then hee sent out another on horsebacke, which came to them, and sayde, Thus sayth the King, Is it peace? And Iehu answered, What hast thou to doe with peace? turne behinde me. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the watchman tolde, saying, He came to them also, but commeth not againe, and the marching is like the marching of Iehu the sonne of Nimshi: for he marcheth furiously.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Iehoram sayd, Make ready: and his charet was made ready; Iehoram King of Israel and Ahaziah King of Iudah went out eyther of them in his charet against Iehu, and met him in the fielde of Naboth the Izreelite. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And when Iehoram sawe Iehu, he sayde, Is it peace, Iehu? And he answered, What peace? whiles the whoredomes of thy mother Iezebel, and her witchcraftes are yet in great nomber? <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then Iehoram turned his hand, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, O Ahaziah, there is treason. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But Iehu tooke a bowe in his hande, and smote Iehoram betweene the shoulders, that the arowe went through his heart: and he fell downe in his charet. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then said Iehu to Bidkar a captaine, Take, and cast him in some place of the fielde of Naboth the Izreelite: for I remember that when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the Lorde layed this burden vpon him. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Surely I haue seene yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sonnes, saide the Lord, and I will render it thee in this fielde, saith the Lorde: nowe therefore take and cast him in the fielde, according to the word of the Lord.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>But when Ahaziah the King of Iudah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house: And Iehu pursued after him, and sayd, Smite him also in the charet: and they smote him in the going vp to Gur, which is by Ibleam; hee fled to Megiddo, and there dyed. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And his seruants caried him in a charet to Ierusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the citie of Dauid.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And in the eleuenth yere of Ioram the sonne of Ahab, began Ahaziah to reigne ouer Iudah.<p> <A name="31"></a><p class="hdg">Jezebel’s Violent Death<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And when Iehu was come to Izreel, Iezebel heard of it, and paynted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a windowe. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And as Iehu entred at the gate, shee sayde, Had Zimri peace, which slewe his master? <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And he lift vp his eyes to the windowe, and sayd, Who is on my side, who? Then two or three of her Eunuches looked vnto him.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And he sayde, Cast her downe: and they cast her downe, and hee sprinkled of her blood vpon the wall, and vpon the horses, and he trode her vnder foote. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And when he was come in, he did eate and drinke, and sayde, Visite now yonder cursed woman, and burie her: for she is a Kings daughter. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And they went to burie her, but they foud no more of her, then the skull and the feete, and the palmes of her handes. <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Wherefore they came agayne and tolde him; he said, This is the worde of the Lorde, which he spake by his seruant Eliiah the Tishbite, saying, In the fielde of Izreel shall ye dogs eate the flesh of Iezebel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And ye carkeis of Iezebel shalbe as doung vpon the ground in ye field of Izreel, so that none shall say, This is Iezebel.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Geneva Bible of 1587<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_kings/8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_kings/10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>