14 So Yehu (the son of Nimshi’s son, Yehoshafat) conspired against Yoram. Yoram was busy with the army guarding Ramot-Gilead from King Haza’el of Aram. 15 Then King Yoram returned to Yizre’el to heal from the wounds from the Arameans when he’d fought with their King Haza’el.

So Yehu told his men, “If you all want me as king, then don’t let anyone leave this city of Ramot-Gilead in case they go to Yizre’el city and tell them our plans.” 16 Then Yehu rode to Yizre’el himself because Yoram was recuperating there in bed, and King Ahazyah had gone up north from Yehudah to visit him.

17 The watchman was standing on the watchtower in Yizre’el, and he could see Yehu’s party in the distance as they began approaching the city, and he reported, “I can see a large group.”

King Yoram ordered, “Send out a chariot and go and ask them if they’re coming in peace.” 18 So the horse and chariot went out to me them and called out, “The king wants to know if you’re all coming in peace?”

But Yehu answered, “What’s that got to do with you? Turn around and follow us.”

Meanwhile the watchman announced, “The messenger has met them, but he isn’t returning.”

19 So the king sent out a second horse and chariot, and he approached and asked, “The king wants to know if you’re all coming in peace?”

Again Yehu replied, “What’s that got to do with you? Turn around and follow us.”

20 Then the watchman declared, “He also met with them but didn’t return. The leader is riding like Nimshi’s son Yehu, because he’s riding like crazy.”

21 “Quick, get my chariot ready!” Yoram ordered. They harnessed his chariot and King Yoram of Israel and Yehudah’s King Ahazyah both went out—each man in his chariot. They went out to meet Yehu and they found him at Navot’s field (the Yizre’elite). 22 When Yoram saw Yehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Yehu?”

“How could there be peace,” he answered, “when your mother Izevel is serving idols and embracing witchcraft?”

23 Then Yoram swung the chariot reigns around and fled, shouting to Ahazyah, “It’s treason, Ahazyah!” 24 Yehu grabbed his bow, and the arrow struck Yoram between his shoulder blades and came out from his heart, and he slumped down dead in his chariot. 25 Then Yehu said to his third officer Bidkar, “Pick up his body and throw it out into the field of Navot, the Yizre’elite. I’m sure you remember how you and I were riding as pairs after his father Ahab, when Yahweh said this against him: 26 ‘Yesterday I saw Navot and his sons killed here, declared Yahweh, and I will repay you in this very place, declares Yahweh.’ So now, throw his body down here because Yahweh declared that it would happen.”

27 Yehudah’s King Ahazyah saw that happen, and he sped away through the garden by a house with Yehu chasing after him shouting, “Get him too in his chariot when he starts climbing upwards to Gur near Yibleam.” So as he fled towards Megiddo, he was killed there, 28 and his servants took his body to Yerushalem, where they buried him in his ancestral tomb in the City of David.

29 (Ahazyah had become king over Yehudah in the eleventh year of the reign of Ahab’s son Yoram over Israel.)