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2 Kings - ch 9 v 21 - 37
- 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.
- 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?
- Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, Ahaziah.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.
- In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
- 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.
- As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Is it peace, you Zimri, your master's murderer?
- 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.
- He said, Throw her down. So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trod her under foot.
- When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.
- They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
- Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, This is the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel;
- and the body of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
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