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And now the watchman that stood on the tower of Jezrahel espied Jehu’s company, and he cried out, I see a troop of men coming. So Joram would have a chariot sent out to meet them, with the message, Is all well? (2 Kings 9, 17)
But when the driver of the chariot met him, and asked, Is all peaceful? Jehu said, Talk not of peace;✻ pass on behind me and follow. And the watchman cried, The messenger reached them, but never returns. (2 Kings 9, 18)
So the watchman cried out, The messenger reached them, but never returns. And he who comes yonder drives as Jehu the son of Namsi drives; it is headlong speed with him. (2 Kings 9, 20)
Harness my chariot, said Joram. Harnessed it was, and side by side in their chariots these two kings went out, Joram king of Israel and Ochozias, king of Juda, to meet Jehu. And when they met him, it was on the land that once belonged to Naboth, the man of Jezrahel. (2 Kings 9, 21)
Joram greeted him by asking, Is all well, Jehu? And he answered, Can aught be well, so long as thy faithless mother Jezabel will be at her sorceries still? (2 Kings 9, 22)
But Jehu grasped his bow and bent it; right between the shoulder-blades the arrow struck Joram, and pierced through his heart, and he fell down in his chariot where he stood. (2 Kings 9, 24)
Then Jehu said to his squire Badacer, Take up his body, and throw it down on the land that was once Naboth the Jezrahelite’s. I remember well, when thou and I were sitting in our chariot together, in attendance on his father Achab, how the Lord pronounced doom upon him: (2 Kings 9, 25)
As for Ochozias, king of Juda, he fled at the sight, past the lodge of the royal garden; but Jehu followed, crying, Shoot him down too where he drives! And shoot him they did, on the hill where Gaver stands, by Jeblaam. He escaped at last to Mageddo, but there he died. (2 Kings 9, 27)
Meanwhile, Jehu drove on to Jezrahel. As for Jezabel, when she heard of his coming, darken she must her eye-brows, and braid her hair; then she looked down from her window (2 Kings 9, 30)
as Jehu passed the gate, crying out: Is all well? There was one Zambri, that murdered his master. (2 Kings 9, 31)
Jehu looked up at the window, and asked who this was. Thereupon two or three of the eunuchs leaned out to greet him.✻ (2 Kings 9, 32)
Over in Samaria, Achab had still seventy male descendants to his name. So Jehu dispatched a letter to the chiefs and elders there, and to those who had the young princes in their charge; these were the terms of it: (2 Kings 10, 1)
