Ahaziah succeeds Jehoram.

II. KINGS.

Jehu is anointed. under the hand of Judah, and made a king| 6 And he arose, and went into the over themselves. house; and he poured the oil on his head, 21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD the chariots with him: and he rose by God of Israel, I have anointed thee king night, and smote the Edomites which com- over the people of the LORD, even over passed him about, and the captains of the Israel.

tents.

chariots and the people fled into their 7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the 22 Yet Edom revolted from under the blood of my servants the prophets, and the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Lib-blood of all the servants of the LORD, at nah revolted at the same time. the hand of Jezebel.

23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, 8 For the whole house of Ahab shall peand all that he did, are they not written rish: and I will cut off from Ahab him in the book of the Chronicles of the kings that pisseth against the wall, and him that of Judah? is shut up and left in Israel.

24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

25 T In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.

9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:

10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.

26 Two and twenty years old was Aha- 11 T Then Jehu came forth to the serziah when he began to reign; and he vants of his lord: and one said unto him, reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his Is all well? wherefore came this mad felmother's name was Athaliah, the daughter low to thee? And he said unto them, Ye of Omri king of Israel. know the man, and his communication. 27 And he walked in the way of the 12 And they said, It is false; tell us house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of now. And he said, Thus and thus spake the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab. have anointed thee king over Israel. 28 T And he went with Joram the son 13 Then they hasted, and took every of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of man his garment, and put it under him on Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians the top of the stairs, and blew with trumwounded Joram pets, saying, Jehu is king.

29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

CHAP. IX.

14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat,the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.

15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought

ND Elisha the prophet called one of with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu

unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this forth nor escape out of the city to go to box of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-tell it in Jezreel.

gilead:

16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went 2 And when thou comest thither, look to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the Ahaziah king of Judah was come down son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him to see Joram. arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;

17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the com3 Then take the box of oil, and pour it pany of Jehu as he came, and said, I see on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, a company. And Joram said, Take a I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then horseman and send to meet them, and let open the door, and flee, and tarry not. him say, Is it peace?

4 So the young man, even the young 1C So there went one on horseback to man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead. meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, 5 And when he came, behold, the cap- Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou tains of the host were sitting; and he said, to do with peace? turn thee behind me. I have an errand to thee, O captain. And And the watchman told, saying, The mesJehu said, Unto which of all us? And he senger came to them, but he cometh not said, To thee, O captain.

again.

Jehu slays Joram.

CHAP. X.

Jezebel is eaten by dogs.

19 Then he sent out a second on horse- 33 And he said, Throw her down. So pack, which came to them, and said, Thus they threw her down: and some of her saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu an-blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on swered, What hast thou to do with peace? the horses: and he trode her under foot. turn thee behind me.

34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.

20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth 35 And they went to bury her: but they furiously. found no more of her than the skull, and 21 And Joram said, Make ready. And the feet, and the palms of her hands. his chariot was made ready. And Joram 36 Wherefore they came again, and king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah told him. And he said, This is the word of went out, each in his chariot, and they the LORD, which he spake by his servant went out against Jehu, and met him in the Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:

22 And it came to pass, when Joram 37 And the carcass of Jezebel shall be saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? as dung upon the face of the field in the And he answered, What peace, so long as portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and say, This is Jezebel. her witchcrafts are so many?

CHAP. X.

23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is trea- AND Ahab had seventy sons in Sama chery, O Ahaziah.

24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

ria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,

2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with 25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his cap-you, and there are with you chariots and tain, Take up, and cast him in the portion' horses, a fenced city also, and armour; of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for 3 Look even out the best and meetest remember how that, when I and thou rode of your master's sons, and set him on his together after Ahab his father, the LORD father's throne, and fight for your master's laid this burden upon him; house.

26 Surely I have seen yesterday the 4 But they were exceedingly afraid, blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, and said, Behold, two kings stood not besaith the LORD; and I will requite thee in fore him: how then shall we stand? this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore 5 And he that was over the house, and take and cast him into the plat of ground, he that was over the city, the elders also, according to the word of the LORD. and the bringers up of the children, sent 27 T But when Ahaziah the king of Ju- to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and dah saw this, he fled by the way of the will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will garden-house. And Jehu followed after not make any king: do thou that which is him, and said, Smite him also in the cha- good in thine eyes. riot. And they did so at the going up to 6 Then he wrote a letter the second time Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye Megiddo, and died there. will hearken unto my voice, take ye the

28 And his servants carried bim in a heads of the men your master's sons, and chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in come to me to Jezreel by to-morrow this his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of time. (Now the king's sons being seventy David. persons, were with the great men of the 29 And in the eleventh year of Joram city, which brought them up.) the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign 7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's 30 T And when Jehu was come to Jez- sons, and slew seventy persons. and put reel, Jezebel heard of it; and she paint- their heads in baskets, and sent him them ed her face, and tired her head, and look-to Jezreel.

over Judah.

ed out at a window.

8¶ And there came a messenger, and 31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, told him, saying, They have brought the she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his heads of the king's sons. And he said, master? Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering 32 And he lifted up his face to the win-in of the gate until the morning. dow, and said, Who is on my side? who? 9 And it came to pass in the morning, And there looked out to him two or three that he went out, and stood, and said to all eunuchs the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I

Ahab's children slain.

II. KINGS.

Jehu sins. conspired against my master, and slew and said unto the worshippers of Baal, him but who slew all these? Search, and look that there be here with 10 Know now that there shall fall unto you none of the servants of the LORD, but the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, the worshippers of Baal only. which the LORD spake concerning the 24 And when they went in to offer sacrihouse of Ahab: for the LORD hath done fices and burnt-offerings, Jehu appointed that which he spake by his servant Elijah. fourscore men without, and said, If any 11 So Jehu slew all that remained of of the men whom I have brought into your the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his hands escape, he that letteth him go, his great men, and his kinsfolks,and his priests, life shall be for the life of him. until he left him none remaining. 25 And it came to pass, as soon as he 12 T And he arose and departed, and had made an end of offering the burntcame to Samaria. And as he was at the offering, that Jehu said to the guard and shearing-house in the way, to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let

13 Jehu met with the brethren of Aha-none come forth. And they smote them ziah king of Judah, and said, Who are with the edge of the sword; and the guard ye? And they answered, We are the and the captains cast them out, and went brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to to the city of the house of Baal. salute the children of the king and the children of the queen,

14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing-house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.

26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them. 27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house unto this day. 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

15¶ And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab 29 T Howbeit, from the sins of Jerocoming to meet him: and he saluted him, beam the son of Nebat, who made Israel and said to him, Is thy heart right, as to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, my heart is with thy heart? And Jehona- to wit, the golden calves that were in dab answered, It is. If it be, give me Beth-el, and that were in Dan. thy hand. And he gave him his hand; 30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Beand he took him up to him into the chariot. cause thou hast done well in executing that 16 And he said, Come with me, and see which is right in mine eyes, and hast done my zeal for the LORD. So they made him unto the house of Ahab according to all ride in his chariot. that was in my heart, thy children of the 17 And when he came to Samaria, he fourth generation shall sit on the throne of slew all that remained unto Ahab in Sa-Israel.

maria, till he had destroyed him, accord- 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in ing to the saying of the LORD, which he the law of the LORD God of Israel with all spake to Elijah. his heart: for he departed not from the 18 ¶ And Jehu gathered all the people sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin. together, and said unto them, Ahab served 32 T In those days the LORD began to Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much. cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them 19 Now therefore call unto me all the in all the coasts of Israel; prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all 33 From Jordan eastward, all the land his priests; let none be wanting: for I of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reuben have a great sacrifice to do to Baal: who-ites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which soever shall be wanting, he shall not live. is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent Bashan.

that he might destroy the worshippers of 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and Baal. all that he did, and all his might, are they 20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn not written in the book of the Chronicles assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it. of the kings of Israel?

And Jehoa

21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: 35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and and all the worshippers of Baal came, so they buried him in Samaria. that there was not a man left that came not. haz his son reigned in his stead. And they came into the house of Baal; 36 And the time that Jehu reigned over and the house of Baal was full from one Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight end to another.

22 And he said unto him that was over

them forth vestments.

years.

CHAP. XI.

the vestry, bring forth vestments for all AND when Athaliah the mother of ha the worshippers of Baal. And he brought ziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. 23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the