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¹ And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him,Prepare yourself to go diligently about your business for in those countries they used long garments which they tucked up when they went about earnest business.Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:

² And when thou commest thither, looke where is Iehu ye sonne of Iehoshaphat, the sonne of Nimshi, and go, and make him arise vp from among his brethren, and leade him to a secret chamber.

³ Then take the boxe of oyle and powre it on his head, and say, Thus sayth the Lorde, I haue anointed thee for King ouer Israel. Then open the doore, and flee without any tarying.

⁴ So the seruat of ye Prophet gate him to Ramoth Gilead.

⁵ And when he came in, behold, the captaines of the armie were sitting; he sayde, I haue a message to thee, O captaine; Iehu sayd, Vnto which of all vs? And he answered, To thee, O captaine.

⁶ And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I haveThis anointing was for kings, priests and prophets which were all figures of Messiah, in whom these three offices were accomplished.anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, [even] over Israel.

⁷ And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may auenge the blood of my seruants the Prophets, and the blood of al the seruants of the Lord of the hand of Iezebel.

⁸ For the whole house of Ahab shalbe destroied: and I will cut off from Ahab, him that maketh water against the wall, as well him that is shut vp, as him that is left in Israel.

⁹ And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the sonne of Ahiiah.

¹⁰ And the dogges shall eate Iezebel in the fielde of Izreel, and there shalbe none to burie her; he opened the doore, and fled.

¹¹ Then Jehu came forth to theThat is, the rest of the army, whom he called his brethren before, (2Ki_9:2).servants of his lord: and [one] said unto him, [Is] all well? wherefore came thisThe world always holds the ministers of God is this estimation and has always slandered the children of God (they called the Son of God a deceiver, and said he had the devil) therefore they should not be discouraged.mad [fellow] to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.

¹² And they sayde, It is false, tell vs it nowe. Then he sayd, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saieth the Lorde, I haue anointed thee for King ouer Israel.

¹³ Then they made haste, and tooke euerie man his garment, and put it vnder him on the top of the staires, and blewe the trumpet, saying, Iehu is King.

¹⁴ So Iehu ye sonne of Iehoshaphat the sonne of Nimshi conspired against Ioram: (Now Ioram kept Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael King of Aram.

¹⁵ And King Ioram returned to bee healed in Izreel of the woundes, which the Aramites had giuen him, when hee fought with Hazael King of Aram) and Iehu sayde, If it be your mindes, let no man depart and escape out of the citie, to goe and tell in Izreel.

¹⁶ So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. AndGod had thus ordained as in (2Ch_12:7), that this wicked and idolatrous king, who was more ready to please wicked Joram than to obey the will of God, would perish with him, by whose means he thought to have been stronger.Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.

¹⁷ And the watchman that stoode in the towre in Izreel spyed the companie of Iehu as hee came, & sayd, I see a companie; Iehoram said, Take a horseman and send to meete them, that hee may say, Is it peace?

¹⁸ So there went one on horseback to meete him, and sayde, Thus sayth the King, Is it peace? And Iehu sayd, What hast thou to do with peace? Turne behinde me; the watchman tolde, saying, The messenger came to them, but he commeth not againe.

¹⁹ Then hee sent out another on horsebacke, which came to them, and sayde, Thus sayth the King, Is it peace? And Iehu answered, What hast thou to doe with peace? turne behinde me.

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 drivethAs one that went earnestly about his business.furiously.

²¹ Then Iehoram sayd, Make ready: and his charet was made ready; Iehoram King of Israel and Ahaziah King of Iudah went out eyther of them in his charet against Iehu, and met him in the fielde of Naboth the Izreelite.

²² And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, [Is it]Meaning, since God is their enemy because of their sins, he will always stir up someone to avenge his cause.peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so] many?

²³ Then Iehoram turned his hand, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, O Ahaziah, there is treason.

²⁴ But Iehu tooke a bowe in his hande, and smote Iehoram betweene the shoulders, that the arowe went through his heart: and he fell downe in his charet.

²⁵ Then said Iehu to Bidkar a captaine, Take, and cast him in some place of the fielde of Naboth the Izreelite: for I remember that when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the Lorde layed this burden vpon him.

²⁶ Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of hisBy this it is evident that Jezebel caused both Naboth and his sons to be put to death, that Ahab might enjoy his vineyard more quietly: else his children might have claimed possession.sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him into the plat [of ground], according to the word of the LORD.

²⁷ But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw [this], he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. [And they did so] at the going up to Gur, which [is] by Ibleam. And he fled toAfter he was wounded in Samaria, he fled to Megiddo, a city of Judah.Megiddo, and died there.

²⁸ And his seruants caried him in a charet to Ierusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the citie of Dauid.

²⁹ And in theThat is, eleven whole years: for in (2Ki_8:25) when he said he began to reign in the twelfth year of Joram, he takes a partial year for a whole.eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

³⁰ And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of it]; and she painted her face, and tired her head, andBeing of a harsh and cruel nature, she would still retain her royal state and dignity.looked out at a window.

³¹ And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, [Had]As if to say, «Can a traitor or anyone who rises against his superior succeed?», see (1Ki_16:10).Zimri peace, who slew his master?

³² And he lift vp his eyes to the windowe, and sayd, Who is on my side, who? Then two or three of her Eunuches looked vnto him.

³³ And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down:This he did by the moving of the Spirit of God, that her blood would be shed, who had shed the blood of innocents, to be a spectacle and example of God's judgment for all tyrants.and [some] of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.

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] aThat is, of the king of Zidon, (1Ki_16:31).king's daughter.

³⁵ And they went to burie her, but they foud no more of her, then the skull and the feete, and the palmes of her handes.

³⁶ Wherefore they came agayne and tolde him; he said, This is the worde of the Lorde, which he spake by his seruant Eliiah the Tishbite, saying, In the fielde of Izreel shall ye dogs eate the flesh of Iezebel.

³⁷ And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they shall not say,Thus God's judgments appear even in this world against those who suppress his word and persecute his servants.This [is] Jezebel.