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The Father Anoints Jehu King

Chapter 9.

Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, "Tuck your cloak into your belt, take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead." When you arrive, look there for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi. Go in, get him up from among his companions, and take him to an inner room.

Then take the flask of oil, pour it on his head, and say, 'This is what our Father says: I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and run; do not wait."

So the young man, the prophet's servant, went to Ramoth-gilead. When he arrived, the commanders of the army were sitting together. He said, "I have a message for you, commander." "For which of us?" Jehu asked. "For you, commander," he replied.

Jehu got up and went into the house, and the young man poured the oil on his head and said to him, "This is what our Father, the God of Israel, says: I anoint you king over my people, over Israel. You are to strike down the house of Ahab your master, so that I may bring justice for the blood of my servants the prophets, and for the blood of all my servants, shed by the hand of Jezebel. The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free. I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah. As for Jezebel, the dogs will devour her in the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.' " Then he opened the door and fled.

When Jehu went out to his master's officers, one of them asked him, "Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?" "You know the man and the kind of thing he says," Jehu replied.

"That's not true!" they said. "Tell us." So he said, "This is what he told me: 'This is what our Father says: I anoint you king over Israel.'"

Then they quickly took their cloaks and spread them under him on the bare steps. They blew the trumpet and shouted, "Jehu is king!"

Jehu Strikes Down Joram and Ahaziah

So Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,

but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him in the battle with Hazael king of Aram. So Jehu said, "If this is your will, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel."

Then Jehu got into his chariot and rode to Jezreel, because Joram was lying there; and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see him.

When the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu's company approaching, he called out, "I see a company of men." "Get a horseman," Joram ordered. "Send him to meet them and ask, 'Is it peace?'"

So the horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, "This is what the king asks: 'Is it peace?'" "What do you have to do with peace?" Jehu replied. "Fall in behind me." And the watchman reported, "The messenger has reached them, but he is not coming back."

So the king sent out a second horseman. When he came to them he said, "This is what the king asks: 'Is it peace?'" "What do you have to do with peace?" Jehu replied. "Fall in behind me."

The watchman reported, "He has reached them, but he is not coming back either. And the driving is like that of Jehu son of Nimshi—he drives like a madman."

"Hitch up my chariot," Joram ordered. And when it was hitched, Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah rode out, each in his own chariot, to meet Jehu. They met him at the plot of ground that had belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite.

When Joram saw Jehu he asked, "Is it peace, Jehu?" "How can there be peace," Jehu replied, "as long as all the prostitutions and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?"

Joram wheeled around and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, "Treachery, Ahaziah!"

Then Jehu drew his bow with all his strength and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot.

Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, "Pick him up and throw him on the field that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite. Remember how, when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, our Father pronounced this oracle against him:

'As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares our Father, I will surely repay you on this very plot of ground.' Now then, pick him up and throw him on that plot, in keeping with the word of our Father."

When Ahaziah king of Judah saw what was happening, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. Jehu chased him, shouting, "Shoot him too!" They wounded him in his chariot on the way up to Gur near Ibleam, but he escaped to Megiddo and died there.

His servants took him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him with his ancestors in his tomb in the City of David.

(It was in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab that Ahaziah had become king over Judah.)

The Father's Word Against Jezebel

Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard of it, she painted her eyes, arranged her hair, and looked out the window. As Jehu came through the gate, she asked, "Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your master?" ¹

He looked up at the window and called out, "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three eunuchs looked down at him.

"Throw her down!" Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses as they trampled her underfoot.

Jehu went in, ate and drank, and then said, "See to this cursed woman and bury her, for she was a king's daughter."

But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing of her except the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.

When they went back and told Jehu, he said, "This is the word of our Father that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: 'In the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour Jezebel's flesh.

Her body will be like dung on the surface of the field in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, "This is Jezebel."'"

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