akjv - 2Kings:9-10

akjv@2Kings:9:1 @ And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said to him, Gird up your loins, and take this box of oil in your hand, and go to Ramothgilead:

akjv@2Kings:9:2 @ And when you come thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brothers, and carry him to an inner chamber;

akjv@2Kings:9:3 @ Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus said the LORD, I have anointed you king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.

akjv@2Kings:9:4 @ So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead.

akjv@2Kings:9:5 @ And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to you, O captain. And Jehu said, To which of all us? And he said, To you, O captain.

akjv@2Kings:9:6 @ And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.

akjv@2Kings:9:7 @ And you shall smite the house of Ahab your 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.

akjv@2Kings:9:8 @ For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that urinates against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:

akjv@2Kings:9:9 @ 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:

akjv@2Kings:9:10 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:9:11 @ Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, Is all well? why came this mad fellow to you? And he said to them, You know the man, and his communication.

akjv@2Kings:9:12 @ And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying, Thus said the LORD, I have anointed you king over Israel.

akjv@2Kings:9:13 @ Then they hurried, 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.

akjv@2Kings:9:14 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:9:15 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:9:16 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:9:17 @ 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?

akjv@2Kings:9:18 @ So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus said the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? turn you behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he comes not again.

akjv@2Kings:9:19 @ Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus said the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What have you to do with peace? turn you behind me.

akjv@2Kings:9:20 @ And the watchman told, saying, He came even to them, and comes not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously.

akjv@2Kings:9:21 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:9:22 @ 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 prostitutions of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

akjv@2Kings:9:23 @ And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.

akjv@2Kings:9:24 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:9:25 @ 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 you rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden on him;

akjv@2Kings:9:26 @ Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, said the LORD; and I will requite you in this plat, said the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.

akjv@2Kings:9:27 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:9:28 @ And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulcher with his fathers in the city of David.

akjv@2Kings:9:29 @ And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

akjv@2Kings:9:30 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:9:31 @ And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?

akjv@2Kings:9:32 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:9:33 @ 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 stepped her under foot.

akjv@2Kings:9:34 @ 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' daughter.

akjv@2Kings:9:35 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:9:36 @ Why they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:

akjv@2Kings:9:37 @ And the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.

akjv@2Kings:10:1 @ And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab' children, saying,

akjv@2Kings:10:2 @ Now as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master' sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armor;

akjv@2Kings:10:3 @ Look even out the best and meet of your master' sons, and set him on his father' throne, and fight for your master' house.

akjv@2Kings:10:4 @ But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?

akjv@2Kings:10:5 @ 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 your servants, and will do all that you shall bid us; we will not make any king: do you that which is good in your eyes.

akjv@2Kings:10:6 @ Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If you be mine, and if you will listen to my voice, take you the heads of the men your master' sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king' sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.

akjv@2Kings:10:7 @ And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king' sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.

akjv@2Kings:10:8 @ And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king' sons. And he said, Lay you them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.

akjv@2Kings:10:9 @ And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, You be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?

akjv@2Kings:10:10 @ Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.

akjv@2Kings:10:11 @ So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.

akjv@2Kings:10:12 @ And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way,

akjv@2Kings:10:13 @ Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are you? And they answered, We are the brothers of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.

akjv@2Kings:10:14 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:10:15 @ And when he was departed there, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me your hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.

akjv@2Kings:10:16 @ And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.

akjv@2Kings:10:17 @ And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, which he spoke to Elijah.

akjv@2Kings:10:18 @ And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.

akjv@2Kings:10:19 @ Now therefore call to 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; whoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

akjv@2Kings:10:20 @ And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.

akjv@2Kings:10:21 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:10:22 @ And he said to him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.

akjv@2Kings:10:23 @ And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said to 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.

akjv@2Kings:10:24 @ 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 lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.

akjv@2Kings:10:25 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:10:26 @ And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.

akjv@2Kings:10:27 @ And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house to this day.

akjv@2Kings:10:28 @ Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

akjv@2Kings:10:29 @ However, 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 Daniel.

akjv@2Kings:10:30 @ And the LORD said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.

akjv@2Kings:10:31 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:10:32 @ In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;

akjv@2Kings:10:33 @ 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.

akjv@2Kings:10:34 @ 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?

akjv@2Kings:10:35 @ And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.

akjv@2Kings:10:36 @ And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.

akjv@2Kings:11:1 @ And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.