14Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Joram was keeping Ramoth Gilead—he and all Israel—because of Hazael king of Aram.15Jehoram the king had returned to Jezreel to be healed of the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought Hazael king of Aram. Jehu said, "If you have any life in you, let no survivor leave the city to go and report in Jezreel."16Jehu rode and went toward Jezreel, because Joram was lying there, and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see Joram.17The watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel. He saw Jehu's company approaching and said, "I see a company." Jehoram said, "Take a charioteer and send him to meet them, and have him ask whether it is peace."18The rider on the Horse Gate went to meet him and said, "Thus says the king: 'Is it peace?'" Jehu answered, "What have you to do with peace? Turn and follow me." The watchman reported, "The messenger reached them but did not return."19The king sent a second rider on the Horse Gate. He came to them and said, "Thus says the king: 'Peace.'" Jehu replied, "What have you to do with peace? Turn and follow me."20The watchman reported, "He reached them but did not return, and the driving is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi, for he drives like a madman."21Jehoram ordered, "Make ready." He made his chariot ready, and Jehoram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his own chariot, to meet Jehu. They found him at the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.22When Jehoram saw Jehu he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" Jehu answered, "What peace can there be while the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her many sorceries continue?"23Jehoram turned his hands and fled, saying to Ahaziah, "Treachery, Ahaziah!"24Jehu drew his bow and shot Jehoram between the shoulders; the arrow passed through his heart, and he sank down in his chariot.25Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, "Pick him up and throw him onto the plot of Naboth the Jezreelite's field. Remember how you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father when the LORD pronounced this oracle against him."26"Surely I saw last night the blood of Naboth and the blood of his son, declares the LORD; therefore I will repay you on this very plot, declares the LORD. Now pick him up and throw him onto the plot in accordance with the word of the LORD."27Ahaziah king of Judah saw what had happened and fled by way of the garden house. Jehu pursued him and ordered, "Strike him down also in the chariot at the ascent of Gur near Ibleam." Ahaziah fled to Megiddo and died there.28His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.29Ahaziah had become king of Judah in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab.