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Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So the young man, <i>even</i> the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And when he came, behold, the captains of the host <i>were</i> 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. <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 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, <i>even</i> over Israel. <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 avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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: <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 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and <i>there shall be</i> none to bury <i>her</i>. And he opened the door, and fled.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and <i>one</i> said unto him, <i>Is</i> all well? wherefore came this mad <i>fellow</i> to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they said, <i>It is</i> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put <i>it</i> under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.</p> <a name="14" id="14"></a><p class="hdg">Jehu Kills Joram and Ahaziah<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_chronicles/22.htm#8">2 Chronicles 22:8-9</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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, <i>then</i> let none go forth <i>nor</i> escape out of the city to go to tell <i>it</i> in Jezreel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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, <i>Is it</i> peace? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, <i>Is it</i> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, <i>Is it</i> peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving <i>is</i> like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, <i>Is it</i> peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts <i>are so</i> many? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, <i>There is</i> treachery, O Ahaziah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then said <i>Jehu</i> to Bidkar his captain, Take up, <i>and</i> 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; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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 <i>and</i> cast him into the plat <i>of ground</i>, according to the word of the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw <i>this</i>, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. <i>And they did so</i> at the going up to Gur, which <i>is</i> by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.</p> <p class="hdg">The Murder of Jezebel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard <i>of it</i>; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, <i>Had</i> Zimri peace, who slew his master? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who <i>is</i> on my side? who? And there looked out to him two <i>or</i> three eunuchs.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and <i>some</i> of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed <i>woman</i>, and bury her: for she <i>is</i> a king's daughter. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of <i>her</i> hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This <i>is</i> 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: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/9-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; <i>so</i> that they shall not say, This <i>is</i> Jezebel.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">King James Bible<br /><br />Text courtesy of <a href="http://www.bibleprotector.com/"> BibleProtector.com</a><br /><br />Section Headings Courtesy <a href="http://intbible.com/">INT Bible</a><br />© 2012, Used by Permission<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/2_kings/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div align="center"><div align="center"><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>