2Kings:9:14-29
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And Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Jehoram .
And Jehoram was keeping watch at Ramoth-gilead ,
he and all Israel before Hazael the king of Syria .
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And king Jehoram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds with which the Syrians had smitten him as he fought with Hazael the king of Syria .
and Jehu said ,
If it is in your minds ,
do not let one leave the city to go to tell it in Jezreel .
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And Jehu rode and went to Jezreel ,
for Jehoram lay there .
And Ahaziah the king of Judah had gone down to see Jehoram .
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And the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel .
And he saw the troop of Jehu as he came .
And he said ,
I see a troop .
And Jehoram said ,
Take a rider ,
and send to meet them ,
and let him say ,
Peace ?
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And the rider on the horse went to meet him ,
and said ,
So says the king ,
Is it peace ?
And Jehu said ,
What have you to do with peace ?
Turn behind me .
And the watchman spoke ,
saying ,
The messenger came to them ,
and he has not returned .
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And he sent a second rider on a horse .
And he came to them ,
and said ,
So says the king ,
Peace ?
And Jehu said ,
What have you to do with peace ?
Turn behind me .
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And the watchman spoke ,
saying ,
He came to them ,
and he has not returned .
And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi ,
for he drives madly .
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And Jehoram said ,
Harness up !
And his chariot was harnessed .
And Jehoram the king of Israel and Ahaziah the 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 .
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And it happened ,
when Jehoram saw Jehu ,
he said ,
Peace ,
Jehu ?
And he said ,
What peace ,
so long as the whoredoms of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are so many ?
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And Jehoram turned his hands and fled ,
and said to Ahaziah ,
Treachery ,
O Ahaziah !
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And Jehu filled his hand with a bow and struck Jehoram between his arms .
And the arrow went out from his heart .
And he sank down in his chariot .
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And Jehu said to his third officer ,
Bidkar ,
Take up ,
throw him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite .
For ,
remember ,
you and I were riding together after his father Ahab ,
and Jehovah laid this burden on him :
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Surely yesterday I have seen the blood of Naboth ,
and the blood of his sons ,
says Jehovah .
And I will repay you in this portion ,
says Jehovah .
Now ,
then ,
take him up ,
throw him into the portion of Naboth ,
according to the word of Jehovah .
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And Ahaziah the king of Judah saw ,
and he fled the way of the garden house .
And Jehu pursued him ,
and said ,
Strike him ,
him also ,
in the chariot ,
in the ascent to Gur ,
that is ,
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 buryingplace ,
with his fathers in the city of David .
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And in the eleventh year of Jehoram the son of Ahab ,
Ahaziah reigned over Judah .
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