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2 Kings 9:14-29

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Jehoram (Joram) Is Assassinated

14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. 1Now Joram with all Israel was defending Ramoth-gilead against * Hazael king of Aram,
15 but 2King Joram had returned to Jezreel to be healed of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Aram. So Jehu said, "If this is your mind, then let no one escape or leave * the city to go tell it in Jezreel."
16 Then Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was lying there. 3Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." And Joram said, "Take a horseman and send him to meet them and let him say, 'Is it peace?' "
18 So a horseman went to meet him and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?' " And Jehu said, "4What have you to do with peace? Turn behind * me." And the watchman reported, "The messenger came to them, but he did not return."
19 Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?' " And Jehu answered, "What have you to do with peace? Turn behind * me."
20 The watchman reported, "He came even to them, and he did not return; and 5the driving is like the driving of 6Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously."
21 Then Joram said, "Get ready." And they made his chariot ready. 7Joram 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 8property of Naboth the Jezreelite.
22 When Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" And he answered, "What peace, 9so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?"
23 So Joram reined * about * and fled and said to Ahaziah, "10There is treachery, O Ahaziah!"
24 And 11Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his arms; and the arrow went through his heart and he sank in his chariot.
25 Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, "Take him up and 12cast him into the property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for I remember when you and I were riding together after Ahab his father, that the 13LORD laid this 14oracle against him:
26 'Surely * 15I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,' says the LORD, 'and 16I will repay you in this property,' says the LORD. Now then, take and cast him into the property, according to the word of the LORD."

Jehu Assassinates Ahaziah

27 17When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu pursued him and said, "Shoot him too, in the chariot." So they shot him at the ascent of Gur, which is at 18Ibleam. But he fled to Megiddo and died there.
28 19Then his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem and buried him in his grave with his fathers in the city of David.
29 Now in 20the eleventh * year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.
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2 Kings 9:14-29 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 9

In this chapter we are told that one of the sons of the prophets was sent by Elisha to anoint Jehu king of Israel, and to order him to smite and destroy the whole house of Ahab, 2Ki 9:1-10, which being done unto him, and the order received by Jehu, he acquainted his captains with it, 2Ki 9:11-15, who set out with him immediately to Jezreel, 2Ki 9:16-21, where he slew Joram king of Israel, 2Ki 9:22-26, and Ahaziah king of Judah, 2Ki 9:27-29, and Jezebel, the widow of Ahab, and mother of Joram, 2Ki 9:30-37.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 20

  • 1. 1 Kings 22:3; 2 Kings 8:28
  • 2. 2 Kings 8:29
  • 3. 2 Kings 8:29
  • 4. 2 Kings 9:19, 22
  • 5. 2 Samuel 18:27
  • 6. 1 Kings 19:17
  • 7. 2 Chronicles 22:7
  • 8. 1 Kin 21:1-7, 15-19; 2 Kings 9:26
  • 9. 1 Kings 16:30-33; 1 Kings 18:19; 2 Chronicles 21:13
  • 10. 2 Kings 11:14
  • 11. 1 Kings 22:34
  • 12. 1 Kings 21:1
  • 13. 1 Kin 21:19, 24-29
  • 14. Isaiah 13:1
  • 15. 1 Kings 21:13, 19
  • 16. 2 Kings 9:21, 25
  • 17. 2 Chronicles 22:7, 9
  • 18. Joshua 17:11; Judges 1:27
  • 19. 2 Kings 23:30
  • 20. 2 Kings 8:25

Footnotes 27

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