Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
30 Jehu arrived in Jezreel. Jezebel, having heard what had happened, put on eye shadow, arranged her hair, and stood looking down at the street from a window in the palace.
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Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window.
31 As Jehu came through the gate, she called out, "You Zimri! You assassin! Why are you here?"
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As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?”
32 Jehu looked up and shouted, "Who is on my side?" Two or three palace officials looked down at him from a window,
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He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him.
33 and Jehu said to them, "Throw her down!" They threw her down, and her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses. Jehu drove his horses and chariot over her body,
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“Throw her down!” Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot.
34 entered the palace, and had a meal. Only then did he say, "Take that cursed woman and bury her; after all, she is a king's daughter."
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Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.”
35 But the men who went out to bury her found nothing except her skull and the bones of her hands and feet.
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But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands.
36 When they reported this to Jehu, he said, "This is what the Lord said would happen, when he spoke through his servant Elijah: "Dogs will eat Jezebel's body in the territory of Jezreel.
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They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This 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 Jezebel’s flesh.
37 Her remains will be scattered there like dung, so that no one will be able to identify them.' "
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Jezebel’s body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.’ ”
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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