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the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son “Throw her down.” So they threw her down,
of Nimshi, for he drives furiously!” and some of her blood spattered on the wall
21 Then Joram said, “Make ready.” And his and on the horses; and he trampled her under-
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chariot was made ready. Then Joram king of foot. And when he had gone in, he ate and
Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, drank. Then he said, “Go now, see to this
each in his chariot; and they went out to meet accursed woman, and bury her, for she was a
Jehu, and met him on the property of Naboth king’s daughter.” So they went to bury her,
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the Jezreelite. Now it happened, when Joram but they found no more of her than the skull
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saw Jehu, that he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” and the feet and the palms of her hands.
So he answered, “What peace, as long as 36 Therefore they came back and told him. And
the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her he said, “This is the word of the LORD, which
witchcraft are so many?” He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite,
23 Then Joram turned around and fled, and saying, ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs
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said to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!” Now shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; and the corpse
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Jehu drew his bow with full strength and shot of Jezebel shall be as refuse on the surface of
Jehoram between his arms; and the arrow the field, in the plot at Jezreel, so that they
came out at his heart, and he sank down in his shall not say, “Here lies Jezebel.” ’ ”
chariot. Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria.
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“Pick him up, and throw him into the tract of 10 And Jehu wrote and sent letters to Sa-
the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remem- maria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders,
ber, when you and I were riding together and to those who reared Ahab’s sons, saying:
behind Ahab his father, that the LORD laid this 2 Now as soon as this letter comes to
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burden upon him: ‘Surely I saw yesterday the you, since your master’s sons are with
blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,’ you, and you have chariots and horses,
says the LORD, ‘and I will repay you in this a fortified city also, and weapons,
plot,’ says the LORD. Now therefore, take and 3 choose the best qualified of your
throw him on the plot of ground, according to master’s sons, set him on his father’s
the word of the LORD.”
27 But when Ahaziah king of Judah saw this, throne, and fight for your master’s
he fled by the road to Beth Haggan. So Jehu house.
pursued him, and said, “Shoot him also in the 4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said,
chariot.” And they shot him at the Ascent of “Look, two kings could not stand up to him;
Gur, which is by Ibleam. Then he fled to how then can we stand?” And he who was in
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Megiddo, and died there. And his servants car- charge of the house, and he who was in
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ried him in the chariot to Jerusalem, and buried charge of the city, the elders also, and those
him in his tomb with his fathers in the City of who reared the sons, sent to Jehu, saying, “We
David. In the eleventh year of Joram the son of are your servants, we will do all you tell us; but
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Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah. we will not make anyone king. Do what is
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30 Now when Jehu had come to Jezreel, good in your sight.” Then he wrote a second
Jezebel heard of it; and she put paint on her letter to them, saying:
eyes and adorned her head, and looked
If you are for me and will obey my
voice, take the heads of the men, your
master’s sons, and come to me at
Jezreel by this time tomorrow.
9:30 paint on her eyes. The painting of the
eyelids with a black powder mixed with oil Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were
and applied with a brush, darkened them to with the great men of the city, who were rear-
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give an enlarged effect. Jezebel’s appearance ing them. So it was, when the letter came to
at the window gave the air of a royal audience them, that they took the king’s sons and
to awe Jehu. slaughtered seventy persons, put their heads
in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.
8 Then a messenger came and told him, say-
through a window. Then, as Jehu entered at ing, “They have brought the heads of the
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the gate, she said, “Is it peace, Zimri, murder- king’s sons.”
er of your master?” And he said, “Lay them in two heaps at the
32 And he looked up at the window, and said, entrance of the gate until morning.”
“Who is on my side? Who?” So two or three 9 So it was, in the morning, that he went out
eunuchs looked out at him. Then he said, and stood, and said to all the people, “You are
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