2Kings:9:14-29

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* So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram . (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth-gilead , he and all Israel , because of Hazael king of Syria ; * but King Joram had 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 is in your (note :){+}(:note ) mind , then let none escape and go forth out of the city , to go to tell it in Jezreel . * So Jehu rode in a chariot , and went to Jezreel ; for Joram lay there . And Ahaziah king of Judah came down to see Joram . * Now the watchman was standing 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 a horseman , and send to meet them , and let him say , Is it peace ? * So one went on horseback to meet him , and said , Thus says the king , Is it peace ? And Jehu said , What have you to do with peace ? Turn behind me . And the watchman told , saying , The messenger came to them , but he didn 't come back . * Then he sent out a second on horseback , who came to them , and said , Thus says the king , Is it peace ? And Jehu answered , What have you to do with peace ? Turn behind me . * And the watchman told , saying , He came even to them , and didn 't come back : and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi ; for he drives furiously . * And Joram said , Get ready . And they got his chariot ready . And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out , each in his chariot , and they went out to meet Jehu , and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite . * 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 prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many ? * And Joram turned his hands , and fled , and said to Ahaziah , There is treachery , O Ahaziah . * And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength , and struck Joram between his arms ; and the arrow went out at his heart , and he sunk down in his chariot . * Then [Jehu ] said 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 you rode together after Ahab his father , Yahweh laid this burden on him : * Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth , and the blood of his sons , says Yahweh ; and I will requite you in this plot [of ground ], says Yahweh . Now therefore take and cast him into the plot , according to the word of Yahweh . * 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 , Him too . Kill him . [This happened ] in the chariot at the ascent of Gur , which is by Ibleam . And he fled to Megiddo , and died there . * And his slaves carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem , and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David . * And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab , Ahaziah began to reign over Judah .

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