ULT 2 KI Chapter 9

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9 And Elisha the prophet called to one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Gird your loins, and take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead. 2 And you shall come to there, and see Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, there. And you shall come, and you shall make him arise from the midst of his brothers, and you shall bring him to a chamber in a chamber. 3 And you shall take the flask of oil, and you shall pour it on his head, and you shall say, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I have anointed you as king over Israel.” ’ Then you shall open the door, and you shall flee, and you shall not delay.” 4 So the young man, the young man, the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead. 5 And he came, and behold, the commanders of the army were sitting, and he said, “A word is to me for you, O commander.” And Jehu said, “For whom, from all of us?” And he said, “For you, O commander.” 6 And he arose and came to the house. And he poured the oil on his head and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘I have anointed you as king over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. 7 And you shall strike the house of Ahab, your master, and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all of the servants of Yahweh from the hand of Jezebel. 8 And all of the house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab one pissing against a wall, both one restrained and one set free 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 dogs will eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there will be no burying.’ ” And he opened the door, and he fled.

11 And Jehu came out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, “Peace? Why did this madman come to you?” And he said to them, “You, you know the man and his talk.” 12 And they said, “A lie! Now declare to us.” And he said, “Like this and like this he spoke to me, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I have anointed you as king over Israel.” ’ ” 13 And they hurried and took, a man his garment, and they put them under him at the top of the steps. And they blew on a shofar, and they said, “Jehu is king.”

14 So Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. Now Joram had been guarding in Ramoth Gilead, he and all of Israel, from the face of Hazael, the king of Aram. 15 But King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds with which the Arameans had struck him when he fought with Hazael, the king of Aram. And Jehu said, “If it is your soul, may an escaper not go out from the city to go to declare in Jezreel.”

16 And Jehu rode and went to Jezreel, because Joram was lying down there. Now Ahaziah, the king of Judah, had gone down to see Joram.

17 And a watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the multitude of Jehu as he came, and he said, “I am seeing a multitude.” And Jehoram said, “Take a horseman and send him to meet them, and he shall say, ‘Peace?’ ” 18 And the rider of the horse went to meet him, and he said, “Thus says the king, ‘Peace?’ ” And Jehu said, “What to you and to peace? Turn around to after me.” And the watchman declared, saying, “The messenger has come to them, but he has not returned.” 19 So he sent out a second rider of a horse, and he came to them, and he said, “Thus says the king: ‘Peace.’ ” And Jehu said, “What to you and to peace? Turn around to after me.” 20 And the watchman declared, saying, “He has come to them, but he has not returned, and the driving is like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshi, for he drives with madness.”

21 And Joram said, “Harness.” And one harnessed his chariot. And Jehoram, the king of Israel, went out with Ahaziah, the king of Judah, a man in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu. And they found him on the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. 22 And it happened when Jehoram saw Jehu that he said, “Peace, Jehu?” And he said, “What peace, during the prostitutions of Jezebel your mother and her many sorceries?” 23 And Jehoram turned his hands and fled, and he said to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!” 24 And Jehu filled his hand with the bow, and he struck Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out from his heart. And he sank down in his chariot. 25 And he said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up and throw him onto the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, me and you riding in pairs after Ahab his father, and Yahweh lifted this burden against him, 26 ‘“If I have not seen the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday,” the declaration of Yahweh, “and I will repay you on this portion,” the declaration of Yahweh.’ And now, pick him up, throw him onto the portion, according to the word of Yahweh.”

27 And Ahaziah, the king of Judah, saw, and he fled the way of the house of the garden. And Jehu pursued after him, and he said, “Strike him too in the chariot!” At the ascent of Gur, which is near Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and he died there. 28 And his servants caused him to ride to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the City of David.

29 Now in the year of 11, the year to Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah had reigned over Judah.

30 And Jehu came to Jezreel. And Jezebel heard, and she set her eyes in paint, and she made good her head, and she looked down through the window. 31 And Jehu came in the gate, And she said, “Peace, Zimri, murderer of his master?” 32 And he lifted his face to the window, and he said, “Who is with me? Who?” And two, three eunuchs looked down to him. 33 And he said, “Throw her down.” And they threw her down, and some of her blood sprinkled on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her. 34 And he entered, and he ate and drank. Then he said, “Look after this cursed woman, please, and bury her, for she was the daughter of a king.” 35 So they went to bury her, but they did not find of her except the skull and the feet and the palms of the hands. 36 And they returned, and they declared to him. And he said, “It is the word of Yahweh that he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the portion of Jezreel, dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel, 37 and the corpse of Jezebel will be like dung on the face of a field in the portion of Jezreel, that they will not say, “This is Jezebel.” ’ ”

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ULT 2 KI Chapter 9

ULT 2 KI Chapter 9