2 Kings 9:7-17

7 You are to destroy the house of Ahab your master, and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the LORD’s servants shed by Jezebel.
8 The whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or free.[a]
9 I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah.
10 As for Jezebel, dogs will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.’ ” Then he opened the door and ran.
11 When Jehu went out to his fellow officers, one of them asked him, “Is everything all right? Why did this maniac come to you?” “You know the man and the sort of things he says,” Jehu replied.
12 “That’s not true!” they said. “Tell us.” Jehu said, “Here is what he told me: ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ ”
13 They quickly took their cloaks and spread them under him on the bare steps. Then they blew the trumpet and shouted, “Jehu is king!”

Jehu Kills Joram and Ahaziah

14 So Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth Gilead against Hazael king of Aram,
15 but King Joram[b] had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him in the battle with Hazael king of Aram.) Jehu said, “If you desire to make me king, don’t let anyone slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”
16 Then he got into his chariot and rode to Jezreel, because Joram was resting there and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see him.
17 When the lookout standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, he called out, “I see some troops coming.” “Get a horseman,” Joram ordered. “Send him to meet them and ask, ‘Do you come in peace?’ ”

Cross References 16

  • 1. S Genesis 4:24; S Revelation 6:10
  • 2. S Deuteronomy 32:43
  • 3. S 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 21:15
  • 4. 2 Kings 10:17
  • 5. Deuteronomy 32:36; S 1 Samuel 25:22; 1 Kings 21:21; 2 Kings 14:26
  • 6. S 1 Kings 13:34; S 1 Kings 14:10; 1 Kings 15:29; 1 Kings 16:3,11
  • 7. 1 Kings 16:3
  • 8. ver 35-36; S 1 Kings 21:23
  • 9. S 1 Samuel 10:11; Jeremiah 29:26; S John 10:20; Acts 26:24
  • 10. Matthew 21:8; Luke 19:36
  • 11. S 2 Samuel 15:10; 1 Kings 1:34,39
  • 12. S Deuteronomy 4:43; S 2 Kings 8:28
  • 13. S 2 Kings 8:29
  • 14. 2 Chronicles 22:7
  • 15. S 1 Samuel 14:16; Isaiah 21:6
  • 16. S 1 Samuel 16:4

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Or "Israel—every ruler or leader"
  • [b]. Hebrew "Jehoram," a variant of "Joram" ; also in verses 17 and 21-24
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