2Kings:9-10
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And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets ,
and said unto him ,
Gird up thy loins ,
and take this box of oil in thine hand ,
and go to Ramothgilead :
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And when thou comest thither ,
look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi ,
and go in ,
and make him arise up from among his brethren ,
and carry him to an inner chamber ;
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Then take the box of oil ,
and pour it on his head ,
and say ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
I have anointed thee king over Israel .
Then open the door ,
and flee ,
and tarry not .
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So the young man ,
even the young man the prophet ,
went to Ramothgilead .
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And when he came ,
behold ,
the captains of the host were sitting ;
and he said ,
I have an errand to thee ,
O captain .
And Jehu said ,
Unto which of all us ?
And he said ,
To thee ,
O captain .
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And he arose ,
and went into the house ;
and he poured the oil on his head ,
and said unto him ,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel ,
I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD ,
even over Israel .
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And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master ,
that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets ,
and the blood of all the servants of the LORD ,
at the hand of Jezebel .
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For the whole house of Ahab shall perish :
and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall ,
and him that is shut up and left in Israel :
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And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat ,
and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah :
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And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel ,
and there shall be none to bury her .
And he opened the door ,
and fled .
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Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord :
and one said unto him ,
Is all well ?
wherefore came this mad fellow to thee ?
And he said unto them ,
Ye know the man ,
and his communication .
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And they said ,
It is false ;
tell us now .
And he said ,
Thus and thus spake he to me ,
saying ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
I have anointed thee king over Israel .
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Then they hasted ,
and took every man his garment ,
and put it under him on the top of the stairs ,
and blew with trumpets ,
saying ,
Jehu is king .
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So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram . (
Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead ,
he and all Israel ,
because of Hazael king of Syria .
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But king Joram was 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 be your minds ,
then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel .
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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 .
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And when Jehu was come to Jezreel ,
Jezebel heard of it ;
and she painted her face ,
and tired her head ,
and looked out at a window .
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And as Jehu entered in at the gate ,
she said ,
Had Zimri peace ,
who slew his master ?
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And he lifted up his face to the window ,
and said ,
Who is on my side ?
who ?
And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs .
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And he said ,
Throw her down .
So they threw her down :
and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall ,
and on the horses :
and he trode her under foot .
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And when he was come in ,
he did eat and drink ,
and said ,
Go ,
see now this cursed woman ,
and bury her :
for she is a king '
s daughter .
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And they went to bury her :
but they found no more of her than the skull ,
and the feet ,
and the palms of her hands .
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Wherefore they came again ,
and told him .
And he said ,
This is the word of the LORD ,
which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite ,
saying ,
In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel :
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And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel ;
so that they shall not say ,
This is Jezebel .
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And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria .
And Jehu wrote letters ,
and sent to Samaria ,
unto the rulers of Jezreel ,
to the elders ,
and to them that brought up Ahab '
s children ,
saying ,
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Now as soon as this letter cometh to you ,
seeing your master '
s sons are with you ,
and there are with you chariots and horses ,
a fenced city also ,
and armour ;
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Look even out the best and meetest of your master '
s sons ,
and set him on his father '
s throne ,
and fight for your master '
s house .
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But they were exceedingly afraid ,
and said ,
Behold ,
two kings stood not before him :
how then shall we stand ?
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And he that was over the house ,
and he that was over the city ,
the elders also ,
and the bringers up of the children ,
sent to Jehu ,
saying ,
We are thy servants ,
and will do all that thou shalt bid us ;
we will not make any king :
do thou that which is good in thine eyes .
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Then he wrote a letter the second time to them ,
saying ,
If ye be mine ,
and if ye will hearken unto my voice ,
take ye the heads of the men your master '
s sons ,
and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time .
Now the king '
s sons ,
being seventy persons ,
were with the great men of the city ,
which brought them up .
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And it came to pass ,
when the letter came to them ,
that they took the king '
s sons ,
and slew seventy persons ,
and put their heads in baskets ,
and sent him them to Jezreel .
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And there came a messenger ,
and told him ,
saying ,
They have brought the heads of the king '
s sons .
And he said ,
Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning .
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And it came to pass in the morning ,
that he went out ,
and stood ,
and said to all the people ,
Ye be righteous :
behold ,
I conspired against my master ,
and slew him :
but who slew all these ?
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Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD ,
which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab :
for the LORD hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah .
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So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel ,
and all his great men ,
and his kinsfolks ,
and his priests ,
until he left him none remaining .
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And he arose and departed ,
and came to Samaria .
And as he was at the shearing house in the way ,
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Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah ,
and said ,
Who are ye ?
And they answered ,
We are the brethren of Ahaziah ;
and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen .
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And he said ,
Take them alive .
And they took them alive ,
and slew them at the pit of the shearing house ,
even two and forty men ;
neither left he any of them .
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And when he was departed thence ,
he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him :
and he saluted him ,
and said to him ,
Is thine heart right ,
as my heart is with thy heart ?
And Jehonadab answered ,
It is .
If it be ,
give me thine hand .
And he gave him his hand ;
and he took him up to him into the chariot .
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And he said ,
Come with me ,
and see my zeal for the LORD .
So they made him ride in his chariot .
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And when he came to Samaria ,
he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria ,
till he had destroyed him ,
according to the saying of the LORD ,
which he spake to Elijah .
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And Jehu gathered all the people together ,
and said unto them ,
Ahab served Baal a little ;
but Jehu shall serve him much .
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Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal ,
all his servants ,
and all his priests ;
let none be wanting :
for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal ;
whosoever shall be wanting ,
he shall not live .
But Jehu did it in subtilty ,
to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal .
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And Jehu said ,
Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal .
And they proclaimed it .
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And Jehu sent through all Israel :
and all the worshippers of Baal came ,
so that there was not a man left that came not .
And they came into the house of Baal ;
and the house of Baal was full from one end to another .
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And he said unto him that was over the vestry ,
Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal .
And he brought them forth vestments .
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And Jehu went ,
and Jehonadab the son of Rechab ,
into the house of Baal ,
and said unto the worshippers of Baal ,
Search ,
and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD ,
but the worshippers of Baal only .
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And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings ,
Jehu appointed fourscore men without ,
and said ,
If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape ,
he that letteth him go ,
his life shall be for the life of him .
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And it came to pass ,
as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering ,
that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains ,
Go in ,
and slay them ;
let none come forth .
And they smote them with the edge of the sword ;
and the guard and the captains cast them out ,
and went to the city of the house of Baal .
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And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal ,
and burned them .
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And they brake down the image of Baal ,
and brake down the house of Baal ,
and made it a draught house unto this day .
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Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel .
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Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat ,
who made Israel to sin ,
Jehu departed not from after them ,
to wit ,
the golden calves that were in Bethel ,
and that were in Dan .
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And the LORD said unto Jehu ,
Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes ,
and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart ,
thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel .
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But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart :
for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam ,
which made Israel to sin .
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In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short :
and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel ;
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From Jordan eastward ,
all the land of Gilead ,
the Gadites ,
and the Reubenites ,
and the Manassites ,
from Aroer ,
which is by the river Arnon ,
even Gilead and Bashan .
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Now the rest of the acts of Jehu ,
and all that he did ,
and all his might ,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel ?
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And Jehu slept with his fathers :
and they buried him in Samaria .
And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead .
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And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years .
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And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead ,
she arose and destroyed all the seed royal .
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