2Kings:9:16-29
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So Jehu rode in a chariot ,
and went to Jezreel ;
for Joram lay there .
And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram .
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And there stood a watchman 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 an horseman ,
and send to meet them ,
and let him say ,
Is it peace ?
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So there went one on horseback to meet him ,
and said ,
Thus saith the king ,
Is it peace ?
And Jehu said ,
What hast thou to do with peace ?
turn thee behind me .
And the watchman told ,
saying ,
The messenger came to them ,
but he cometh not again .
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Then he sent out a second on horseback ,
which came to them ,
and said ,
Thus saith the king ,
Is it peace ?
And Jehu answered ,
What hast thou to do with peace ?
turn thee behind me .
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And the watchman told ,
saying ,
He came even unto them ,
and cometh not again :
and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi ;
for he driveth furiously .
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And Joram said ,
Make ready .
And his chariot was made ready .
And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out ,
each in his chariot ,
and they went out against Jehu ,
and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite .
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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 whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many ?
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And Joram turned his hands ,
and fled ,
and said to Ahaziah ,
There is treachery ,
O Ahaziah .
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And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength ,
and smote Jehoram between his arms ,
and the arrow went out at his heart ,
and he sunk down in his chariot .
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Then said Jehu 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 thou rode together after Ahab his father ,
the LORD laid this burden upon him ;
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Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth ,
and the blood of his sons ,
saith the LORD ;
and I will requite thee in this plat ,
saith the LORD .
Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground ,
according to the word of the LORD .
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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 ,
Smite him also in the chariot .
And they did so at the going up to Gur ,
which is by Ibleam .
And he fled to Megiddo ,
and died there .
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And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem ,
and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David .
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And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah .