Thematic Bible
2 Kings 9:1 (show verse)
Now Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Gird up your loins, and take this flask of oil in your hand and go to Ramoth-gilead.
2 Kings 9:2 (show verse)
When you arrive there, search out Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in and bid him arise from among his brothers, and bring him to an inner room.
2 Kings 9:3 (show verse)
Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, ‘Thus says the Lord, “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door and flee and do not wait.”
2 Kings 9:4 (show verse)
So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.
2 Kings 9:5 (show verse)
When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting, and he said, “I have a word for you, O captain.” And Jehu said, “For which one of us?” And he said, “For you, O captain.”
2 Kings 9:6 (show verse)
He arose and went into the house, and he poured the oil on his head and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the Lord, even over Israel.
2 Kings 9:7 (show verse)
You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel.
2 Kings 9:8 (show verse)
For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male person both bond and free in Israel.
2 Kings 9:9 (show verse)
2 Kings 9:10 (show verse)
2 Kings 9:11 (show verse)
Now Jehu came out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” And he said to them, “You know very well the man and his talk.”
2 Kings 9:12 (show verse)
They said, “It is a lie, tell us now.” And he said, “Thus and thus he said to me, ‘Thus says the Lord, “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’”
2 Kings 9:13 (show verse)
Then they hurried and each man took his garment and placed it under him on the bare steps, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king!”
2 Kings 9:14 (show verse)
So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Now Joram with all Israel was defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,
2 Kings 9:15 (show verse)
but King 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.”
2 Kings 9:16 (show verse)
Then Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was lying there. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
2 Kings 9:17 (show verse)
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?’”
2 Kings 9:18 (show verse)
So a horseman went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu said, “What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger came to them, but he did not return.”
2 Kings 9:19 (show verse)
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.”
2 Kings 9:20 (show verse)
The watchman reported, “He came even to them, and he did not return; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”
2 Kings 9:21 (show verse)
Then Joram said, “Get ready.” And they made his chariot ready. Joram 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 property of Naboth the Jezreelite.
2 Kings 9:22 (show verse)
When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?”
2 Kings 9:23 (show verse)
So Joram reined about and fled and said to Ahaziah, “There is treachery, O Ahaziah!”
2 Kings 9:24 (show verse)
And Jehu 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.
2 Kings 9:25 (show verse)
Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Take him up and cast 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 Lord laid this oracle against him:
2 Kings 9:26 (show verse)
‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,’ says the Lord, ‘and I 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.”
2 Kings 9:27 (show verse)
2 Kings 9:28 (show verse)
2 Kings 9:29 (show verse)
Now in the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.
2 Kings 9:30 (show verse)
When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out the window.
2 Kings 9:31 (show verse)
As Jehu entered the gate, she said, “Is it well, Zimri, your master’s murderer?”
2 Kings 9:32 (show verse)
Then he lifted up his face to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three officials looked down at him.
2 Kings 9:33 (show verse)
He said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her under foot.
2 Kings 9:34 (show verse)
When he came in, he ate and drank; and he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”
2 Kings 9:35 (show verse)
They went to bury her, but they found nothing more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
2 Kings 9:36 (show verse)
Therefore they returned and told him. And he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the property of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel;
2 Kings 9:37 (show verse)
and the corpse of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field in the property of Jezreel, so they cannot say, “This is Jezebel.”’”