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II Kings
Chapter 9
1
And Elisha the prophet
called
one of the children of the prophets,
and
said unto him,
Gird
up your loins,
and
take this box of oil in your hand,
and
go to Ramoth-Gilead.
2
And when you come there,
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
said Jehovah/God,
I
have anointed you king over Israel.
Then
open the door, and flee, and delay/tarry not.
4
So the young man, even the young man the prophet,
went
to Ramoth-Gilead.
5
And when he came,
behold,
the captains of the army/host were sitting;
and
he said, I have an errand to you, O captain.
And
Jehu said, Unto which of all us?
And
he said, To you, O captain.
6
And he arose, and went into the house;
and
he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him,
Thus
said the Jehovah/God 'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel,
I
have anointed you king over the people of Jehovah/God,
even
over Israel.
7
And you shall smite the house of Ahab your master,
that
I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets,
and
the blood of all the servants of Jehovah/God,
at
the hand of Jezebel.
8
For the whole house of Ahab shall perish
and
I will cut off from Ahab
he
who pisses against the wall
{idiom for all males}
and
he who is shut up and left in Israel.
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?
Therefore
came this mad fellow to you?
And
he said unto them, you know the man,
and
his communication.
12
And they said, It is false; tell us now.
And
he said, Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying,
Thus
said Jehovah/God,
I
have anointed you king over Israel.
13
Then they hesitated,
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 Ramoth-Gilead,
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
said the king, Is it peace?
And
Jehu said, What have you to do with peace?
Turn
you behind me.
And
the watchman told, saying,
The
messenger came to them,
but
he comes not again.
19
Then he sent out a second on horseback,
which
came to them, and said,
Thus
said the king, Is it peace?
And
Jehu answered, What have you to do with peace?
Turn
you behind me.
20
And the watchman told, saying,
He
came even unto them, and comes not again
and
the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi;
for
he drives 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 your 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 you rode together after Ahab his father,
Jehovah/God
laid this burden upon him.
26
Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth,
and
the blood of his sons, said Jehovah/God;
and
I will requite you in this plat, said Jehovah/God.
Now
therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground,
according
to the word of Jehovah/God.
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 sepulcher 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
Therefore they came again, and told him.
And
he said, This is the word of Jehovah/God,
which
he spoke 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.
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