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Jehu Slays Joram and the House of Ahab

2 Kings 9:14-29

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Chapter 9
14 Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Joram had been guarding Ramoth-gilead—he and all Israel—because of Hazael king of Aram. 15 Jehoram the king had returned to Jezreel to heal himself from the blows the Arameans had struck him when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. He said to Jehu, "If your life matters to you, let no escapee go out from the city to go tell it in Jezreel." 16 Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was lying there. Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see Joram. 17 The watchman stood on the tower in Jezreel and saw the company of Jehu as he approached. He said, "I see a company." Joram said, "Take a chariot and send to meet them, and say, 'Is it peace?'" 18 The horseman went to meet him and said, "The king says, 'Is it peace?'" Jehu said, "What do you have to do with peace? Turn around behind me." The watchman reported, "The messenger reached them, but he has not returned." 19 He sent a second horseman, who came to them and said, "The king says, 'Is it peace?'" Jehu said, "What do you have to do with peace? Turn around behind me." 20 The watchman reported, saying, "He has come as far as them but has not returned, and the driving is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi, for he drives in frenzy." 21 Jehoram said, "Harness," and they harnessed his chariot. Jehoram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu. They found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. 22 When Jehoram saw Jehu, he said, "Peace, Jehu." But he said, "What peace, as long as the cultic prostitutions of Jezebel your mother and her many cultic sorceries continue." 23 Jehoram turned his hands and fled and said to Ahaziah, "It's deceit, Ahaziah." 24 And Jehu drew his bow and struck Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow came out from his heart, and he sank in his chariot. 25 And he said to his officers, "Throw him into the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for remember the paired chariots behind Ahab his father, and the LORD laid this burden upon him." 26 "Surely, the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons that I saw yesterday," oracle of the LORD. "So I have repaid you in this portion," oracle of the LORD. "Now take him and throw him into this portion, according to the word of the LORD." 27 Ahaziah king of Judah saw this and fled by the way of the house of the garden. Jehu pursued him and said, "Even him—strike him on the chariot!" at the ascent of Gur, which is at Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo and died there. 28 And his servants carried him to Jerusalem and buried him in his burial site with his fathers in the city of David. 29 In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah became king over Judah.