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Chapter 9 |
| 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: |
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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. |
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So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to
Ramothgilead. |
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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. |
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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:
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| 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? |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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; |
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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 carcass 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. |
