II Kings 9

1Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak under your belt, take this flask of oil, and go to Ramoth-gilead.

3Then take the flask of oil, pour it on his head, and declare, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and run. Do not delay!”

1 Kings 19:16, 1 Kings 19:16, 1 Samuel 16:2, 2 Kings 8:13, Exodus 29:7

4So the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead,

5and when he arrived, the army commanders were sitting there. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said. “For which of us?” asked Jehu. “For you, commander,” he replied.

Judges 3:19, Judges 3:19

6So Jehu got up and went into the house, where the young prophet poured the oil on his head and declared, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the LORD’s people Israel.

2 Kings 9:3, 1 Kings 19:16, 2 Chronicles 22:7, 2 Kings 9:3, 1 Kings 19:16

7And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel.

1 Kings 18:4, Deuteronomy 32:43, 1 Kings 21:15, 1 Kings 18:4, Deuteronomy 32:43

8The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.

1 Samuel 25:22, Deuteronomy 32:36, 1 Samuel 25:22, Deuteronomy 32:36, 2 Kings 14:26

9I will make the house of Ahab like the houses of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah.

1 Kings 15:29, 1 Kings 15:29, 1 Kings 21:22, 1 Kings 21:22, 1 Kings 14:10

10And on the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour Jezebel, and there will be no one to bury her.’” Then the young prophet opened the door and ran.

2 Kings 9:35, 2 Kings 9:36, 1 Kings 21:23, 2 Kings 9:35, 2 Kings 9:36

11When Jehu went out to the servants of his master, they asked, “Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?” “You know his kind and their babble,” he replied.

Jeremiah 29:26, Jeremiah 29:26, John 10:20, Hosea 9:7, Acts 26:24

12“That is a lie!” they said. “Tell us now!” So Jehu answered, “He talked to me about this and that, and he said, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’”

13Quickly, each man took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. Then they blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”

1 Kings 1:34, 1 Kings 1:39, Mark 11:7, Mark 11:8, 1 Kings 1:34

14Thus Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,

2 Kings 8:28, 2 Kings 8:28, 1 Kings 22:3, 1 Kings 22:3, 2 Kings 8:12

15but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the battle against Hazael their king.) So Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king, then do not let anyone escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”

2 Kings 8:29, 2 Kings 8:29, 1 Samuel 27:9, 1 Samuel 27:11, 2 Chronicles 22:6

16Then Jehu got into his chariot and went to Jezreel, because Joram was laid up there and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see him.

2 Chronicles 22:6, 2 Chronicles 22:7, 2 Kings 8:28, 2 Kings 8:29, 2 Chronicles 22:6

17Now the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, and he called out, “I see a company of troops!” “Choose a rider,” Joram commanded. “Send him out to meet them and ask, ‘Have you come in peace?’”

1 Samuel 16:4, 1 Samuel 16:4, 2 Kings 7:14, 1 Samuel 17:22, 2 Samuel 13:34

18So a horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”

2 Kings 9:19, 2 Kings 9:22, 2 Kings 9:19, 2 Kings 9:22, Jeremiah 16:5

19So the king sent out a second horseman, who went to them and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.”

20Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the charioteer is driving like Jehu son of Nimshi—he is driving like a madman!”

2 Samuel 18:27, 2 Samuel 18:27, Ecclesiastes 9:10, 2 Kings 10:16, 1 Kings 19:17

21“Harness!” Joram shouted, and they harnessed his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his own chariot, and met Jehu on the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.

2 Chronicles 22:7, 1 Kings 21:1, 1 Kings 21:7, 2 Chronicles 22:7, 1 Kings 21:1

22When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”

2 Chronicles 21:13, Nahum 3:4, 2 Chronicles 21:13, Nahum 3:4, 1 Kings 16:30

23Joram turned around and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”

2 Kings 11:14, 2 Kings 11:14, 2 Chronicles 23:13, 2 Chronicles 23:13

24Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot.

1 Kings 22:34, 1 Kings 22:34, Ecclesiastes 8:12, Ecclesiastes 8:13, Psalms 50:22

25And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him:

1 Kings 21:19, 1 Kings 21:19, 1 Kings 21:24, 1 Kings 21:29, Isaiah 13:1

26‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”

Ezekiel 18:19, 1 Kings 21:19, Deuteronomy 5:9, Exodus 20:5, Deuteronomy 24:16

27When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there.

Judges 1:27, Judges 1:27, Joshua 17:11, Joshua 17:11, Judges 5:19

28Then his servants carried him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him with his fathers in his tomb in the City of David.

2 Kings 23:30, 2 Chronicles 35:24, 2 Kings 23:30, 2 Chronicles 35:24, 2 Kings 23:20

29(In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.)

2 Chronicles 21:18, 2 Chronicles 21:19, 2 Chronicles 21:18, 2 Chronicles 21:19, 2 Chronicles 22:1

30Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.

Jeremiah 4:30, Jeremiah 4:30, Ezekiel 23:40, Ezekiel 23:40, Ezekiel 24:17

31And as Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, O Zimri, murderer of your master?”

1 Kings 16:9, 1 Kings 16:20, 1 Kings 16:9, 1 Kings 16:20

32He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.

Psalms 118:6, Esther 2:15, Exodus 32:26, 1 Chronicles 12:18, Psalms 124:1

33“Throw her down!” yelled Jehu. So they threw her down, and her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses as they trampled her underfoot.

Micah 7:10, Micah 7:10, 2 Kings 9:26, 2 Kings 7:20, 1 Kings 21:11

34Then Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of this cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was the daughter of a king.”

1 Kings 16:31, 1 Kings 16:31, 1 Kings 21:25, 1 Kings 21:25, Matthew 25:41

35But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.

Jeremiah 22:19, Isaiah 14:18, Isaiah 14:20, Acts 12:23, Job 31:3

36So they went back and told Jehu, who replied, “This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke through His servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour the flesh of Jezebel.

1 Kings 21:23, 1 Kings 21:23, Leviticus 8:36, Leviticus 8:36, 2 Samuel 12:25

37And Jezebel’s body will lie like dung in the field on the plot of ground at Jezreel, so that no one can say: This is Jezebel.’”

Jeremiah 8:2, Jeremiah 8:2, Jeremiah 16:4, Psalms 83:10, Jeremiah 16:4

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