the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company.
Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let
him say, Is it peace?
009:018 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus says
the king, Is it peace? Jehu said, What have you to do with peace?
turn you behind me. The watchman told, saying, The messenger
came to them, but he isn't coming back.
009:019 Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them,
and said, Thus says the king, Is it peace? Jehu answered,
What have you to do with peace? turn you behind me.
009:020 The watchman told, saying, He came even to them, and isn't
coming back: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu
the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously.
009:021 Joram said, Make ready. They made ready his chariot.
Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah 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.
009:022 It happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it
peace, Jehu? He answered, What peace, so long as the prostitution
of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?
009:023 Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There
is treachery, Ahaziah.
009:024 Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram
between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart,
and he sunk down in his chariot.
009:025 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, Yahweh laid this burden on him:
009:026 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood
of his sons, says Yahweh; and I will requite you in this plat,
says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat
[of ground], according to the word of Yahweh.
009:027 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way
of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said,
Smite him also in the chariot: [and they struck him] at
the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo,
and died there.
009:028 His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried
him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.
009:029 In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah
to reign over Judah.
009:030 When Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it;
and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked
out at the window.
009:031 As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Is it peace, you Zimri,
your master's murderer?
009:032 He lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my
side? who? There looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
009:033 He said, Throw her down.
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