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Jehu said to Bidkar, his chariot officer, âPick him up and throw him on the field that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite. Remember how you and I were riding together in chariots behind Ahab his father when the LORD spoke this prophecy against him:
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âYesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons, declares the LORD, and I will surely make you pay for it on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.â Now then, pick him up and throw him on that plot, in accordance with the word of the LORD.â
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When Ahaziah king of Judah saw what had happened, he fled up the road to Beth Haggan. Jehu chased him, shouting, âKill him too!â They wounded him in his chariot on the way up to Gur near Ibleam, but he escaped to Megiddo and died there.
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His servants took him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him with his ancestors in his tomb in the City of David.
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(In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king of Judah.)
Jezebel Killed
30 Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window.
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As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, âHave you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?â
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He looked up at the window and called out, âWho is on my side? Who?â Two or three eunuchs looked down at him.
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âThrow her down!â Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot.
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Jehu went in and ate and drank. âTake care of that cursed woman,â he said, âand bury her, for she was a kingâs daughter.â
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But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands.
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They went back and told Jehu, who said, âThis is the word of the LORD that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebelâs flesh.
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Jezebelâs body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, âThis is Jezebel.â â