12:009:016 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to
Jezreel; for Joram lay
there.
And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
12:009:017 And there stood a watchman on the tower
in Jezreel, and he
spied
the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a
company.
And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet
them,
and let him say, Is it peace?
12:009:018 So there went one on horseback to meet
him, and said, Thus
saith
the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast
thou to
do
with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman
told,
saying,
The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
12:009:019 Then he sent out a second on horseback,
which came to them,
and
said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu
answered,
What
hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
12:009:020 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 driveth furiously.
12:009:021 And Joram said, Make ready. And his
chariot was made ready.
And
Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went
out,
each
in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and
met
him
in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
12:009:022 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu,
that he said, Is it
peace,
Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as
the
whoredoms
of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so
many?
12:009:023 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and
said to Ahaziah,
There
is treachery, O Ahaziah.
12:009:024 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength,
and smote Jehoram
between
his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and
he
sunk
down in his chariot.
12:009:025 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take
up, and cast him in
the
portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite:
for
remember
how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab
his
father, the lord laid this burden upon him;
12:009:026 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood
of Naboth, and the
blood
of his 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.
12:009:027 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 to
Megiddo,
and
died there.


