2 Kings 9

Al-Yasa the prophet called one of the company of the prophets, and said to him, Get yourself ready, and take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead. ²When you come there, look for Jehu Ibn Jehoshaphat, Ibn Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room. ³Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus says Allah, I have anointed you king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and do not wait. ⁴So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead. ⁵When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting; and he said, I have a message for you, commander. Jehu said, For which one of us? He said, For you, commander. ⁶Jehu arose, and went into the house; and the young prophet poured the oil on his head, and said to him, Thus says Allah, the God of Israel, I have anointed you king over the people of Allah, even over Israel. ⁷You 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 Allah, at the hand of Jezebel. ⁸For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every man-child, whether slave or free in Israel. ⁹I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam Ibn Nebat, and like the house of Baasha Ibn Ahijah. ¹⁰The dogs shall eat Jezebel on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and there shall be no one to bury her. Then the young prophet opened the door, and ran. ¹¹Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you? He said to them, You know the man and the sorts of things he says. ¹²They said, That's not true; tell us now. He said, Thus and thus he spoke to me, saying, Thus says Allah, I have anointed you king over Israel. ¹³Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king. ¹⁴So Jehu Ibn Jehoshaphat, Ibn Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria; ¹⁵but king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said, If you are so minded, then let no one escape and leave the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel. ¹⁶So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram was resting there. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram. ¹⁷Now 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 of troops. Joram said, Get a horseman, and send him to meet them, and let him say, Do you come in peace? ¹⁸So the horseman went to meet him, and said, Thus says the king, Do you come in peace? Jehu said, What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me. The watchman reported, saying, The messenger went to them, but he isn't coming back. ¹⁹Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them, and said, Thus says the king, Do you come in peace? Jehu answered, What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me. ²⁰The watchman reported, saying, He went up to them, and isn't coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu Ibn Nimshi; for he drives furiously. ²¹Joram said, Get ready! 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 plot of ground of Naboth the Jezreelite. ²²It happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Do you come in peace, Jehu? He answered, How can there be peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound? ²³Joram turned around and fled, and said to Ahaziah, Treachery, Ahaziah! ²⁴Jehu drew his bow with full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot. ²⁵Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, Pick him up, and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how that, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Allah laid this burden on him: ²⁶Surely yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, says Allah; and I will repay you on this plot of ground, says Allah. Now therefore pick him up and throw him onto the plot of ground, according to the word of Allah. ²⁷But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the road to Beth Haggan. Jehu pursued him, and said, Strike him in the chariot also: and they struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there. ²⁸His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of Dawud. ²⁹In the eleventh year of Joram Ibn Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah. ³⁰When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard about it; and she painted her eyes, and arranged her hair, and looked out through a window. ³¹As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master? ³²He looked up at the window, and said, Who is on my side? Who? So two or three eunuchs looked out at him. ³³He said, Throw her down. So they threw her down; and some of her blood was splattered on the wall, and on the horses: and he trampled her underfoot. ³⁴When he came in, he ate and drank. Then he said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter. ³⁵They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. ³⁶Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, This is the word of Allah, which he spoke by his servant Ilyas the Tishbite, saying, On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; ³⁷and the body of Jezebel shall be like refuse on the surface of the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that they shall not be able to say, This is Jezebel.