2 Kings Chapter NINE

9 And Elisha the prophet, for his part, called one of the sons of the prophets and then said to him: "Gird up your loins and take this flask of oil in your hand and go to Ramothgilead. 2 When you have come in there, see Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi there; and you must come in and make him get up from the midst of his brothers and bring him into the innermost chamber. 3 And you must take the flask of oil and pour it out upon his head and say, "This is what Jehovah has said: "I do anoint you as king over Israel." And you must open the door and flee and not wait." 4 And the attendant, the prophet's attendant, got on his way to Ramothgilead. 5 When he came in, why there the chiefs of the military force were seated. He now said: "There is a word I have for you, O chief." At this Jehu said: "For which one of all of us? Then he said: "For you, O chief." 6 So he got up and came into the house; and he proceeded to pour oil out upon his head and say to him: This is what Jehovah the God of Israel has said, 'I do anoint you as king over Jehovah's people, that is, over Israel. 7 And you must strike down the house of Ahab your lord, and I must avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of Jehovah at the hand of Jezebel. 8 And the whole house of Ahab must perish; and I must cut off from Ahab anyone urinating against a wall and any helpless and worthless one in Israel. 9 And I must constitute 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 Jezebel the dogs will eat up in the tract of land at Jezreel, and there will be no one burying her.'" With that he opened the door and went fleeing. 11 As for Jehu, he went out to the servants of his lord and they began to say to him: "Is everything all right? Why did this crazy man come in to you? But he said to them: "You yourselves well iknow the man and his sort of talk." 12 But they said: "It is false! Tell us, please." Then he said: "It was like this and like that that he talked to me, saying, "This is what Jehovah has said: "I do anoint you as king over Israel." 13 At this they hurriedly took each one his garment and put it under him upon the bare steps, and they began to blow the horn and say: "Jehu has become king!" 14 And Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi proceeded to conspire against Jehoram. And Jehoram himself had happened to be keeping guard at Ramothgilead, he with all Israel, because of Hazael the king of Syria. 15 Later Jehoram the king returned to get healed at Jezreel from the wounds that the Syrians got to inflict upon him when he fought Hazael the king of Syria. Jehu now said: "If your soul agrees, do not let anyone go out in escape from the city to go and make report to Jezreel." 16 And Jehu began to ride and go to Jezreel, and he got to see the heaving mass of Jehu's [men] as he was coming, and he at once said: "There is a heaving mass [of men] that I am seeing." At that Jehoram said: "Take a cavalryman and send him to meet them, and let him say, 'Is there peace?'" 18 Accordingly a rider on a horse went to meet him and said: "This is what the king has said: 'Is there peace?'" But Jehu said: "What do you have to do with peace'? Get around to my rear!" And the watchman went on to report, saying: "The messenger came as far as to them, but he has not returned." 19 So he sent out a second rider on a horse, who, when he came to them, proceeded to say: "This is what the king has said, 'Is there peace'?" But Jehu said: "What do you have to do with 'peace'? Get around to my rear!" 20 And the watchman went on to report, saying: "He came as far as to them, but he has not returned; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the grandson of Nimshi, for it is with madness that he drives." 21 At that Jehoram said: "Hitch up!" So his war chariot was hitched up and Jehoram the king of Israel and Ahaziah the king of Judah went out, each in his own war chariot. As they continued on out to meet Jehu, they got to find him in the tract of land of Naboth the Jezreelite. 22 And it came about that as soon as Jehoram saw Jehu, he immediately said: "Is there peace, Jehu?" But he said: "What peace could there be as long as there are the fornications of Jezebel your mother and her sorceries?" 23 At once Jehoram made a turn with his hands, that he might flee, and said to Ahaziah: "There is trickery, Ahaziah!" 24 And Jehu himself filled his hand with a bow and proceeded to shoot Jehoram between the arms, so that the arrow came out at his heart, and he collapsed in his war chariot. 25 He now said to Bidkar his adjutant: Lift him up; throw him into the tract of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for remember; I and you were riding teams behind Ahab his father, and Jehovah himself lifted up this pronouncement against him: 26 '"Certainly the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons I saw yesterday," is the utterance of Jehovah, "and I shall certainly repay you in this tract of land," is the utterance of Jehovah.' So now, lift him up; throw him into the tract of land according to the word of Jehovah." 27 And Ahaziah the king of Judah himself saw it and took to flight by the way of the garden house. (Later Jehu went in pursuit of him and said: "Him also! STRIKE him down!" So they struck him down while in the chariot on the way up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he continued his flight to Megiddo and got to die there. 28 Then his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and so they buried him in his grave with his forefathers in the City of David. 29 And it was in the eleventh year of Jehoram, the son of Ahab that Ahaziah had become king over Judah.) 30 At length Jehu came to Jezreel, and Jezebel herself heard of it. And she proceeded to paint her eyes with black paint and do her head up beautifully and to look down through the window. 31 And Jehu himself came in by the gate. She now said: "Did it go all right with Zimri the killer of his lord? 32 At that he raised his face toward the window and said: "Who is with me? Who?" Immediately two or three court officials looked down at him. 33 So he said: "Let her drop!" Then they let her drop, and some of her blood went spattering upon the wall and upon the horses; and he now trampled upon her. 34 After that he came on in and ate and drank and then said: "You men, please, take care of this accursed one and bury her, for she is the daughter of a king." 35 When they went to bury her, they did not find anything of her but the skull and the feet and the palms of the hands. 36 When they returned and told him, he went on to say: "It is the word of Jehovah that he spoke by means of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'In the tract of land of Jezreel the dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel. 37 And the dead body of Jezebel will certainly become as manure upon the face of the field in the tract of land of Jezreel, that they may not say: "This is Jezebel."