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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: 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. 4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth­gilead. 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. 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: 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. 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. 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 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. 20 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. 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 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. 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; 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. 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 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 car­case 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.