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.
