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2 Kings 9:1
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And Elisha the prophet called one of the children
of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil
in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead: |
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| 2 Kings 9:2 |
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And when thou comest thither, look out there
Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up
from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber; |
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| 2 Kings 9:3 |
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Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his
head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then
open the door, and flee, and tarry not. |
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| 2 Kings 9:4 |
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So the young man, even the young man the prophet,
went to Ramothgilead. |
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| 2 Kings 9:5 |
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And when he came, behold, the captains of the
host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu
said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain. |
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| 2 Kings 9:6 |
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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 have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel. |
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| 2 Kings 9:7 |
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And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy 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. |
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| 2 Kings 9:8 |
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For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and
I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut
up and left in Israel: |
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| 2 Kings 9:9 |
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And I will make the house of Ahab like the house
of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah: |
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| 2 Kings 9:10 |
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And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion
of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled. |
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| 2 Kings 9:11 |
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Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his
lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee?
And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication. |
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| 2 Kings 9:12 |
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And they said, It is false; tell us now. And
he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed
thee king over Israel. |
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| 2 Kings 9:13 |
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Then they hasted, and took every man his garment,
and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying,
Jehu is king. |
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| 2 Kings 9:14 |
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So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi
conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel,
because of Hazael king of Syria. |
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| 2 Kings 9:15 |
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But 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.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor
escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel. |
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| 2 Kings 9:16 |
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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. |
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| 2 Kings 9:17 |
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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? |
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| 2 Kings 9:18 |
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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. |
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| 2 Kings 9:19 |
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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. |
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| 2 Kings 9:20 |
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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. |
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| 2 Kings 9:21 |
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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. |
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| 2 Kings 9:22 |
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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? |
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| 2 Kings 9:23 |
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And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said
to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah. |
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| 2 Kings 9:24 |
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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. |
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| 2 Kings 9:25 |
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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; |
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| 2 Kings 9:26 |
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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. |
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| 2 Kings 9:27 |
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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. |
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| 2 Kings 9:28 |
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And his servants carried him in a chariot to
Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David. |
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| 2 Kings 9:29 |
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And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of
Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah. |
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| 2 Kings 9:30 |
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And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard
of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. |
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| 2 Kings 9:31 |
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And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said,
Had Zimri peace, who slew his master? |
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| 2 Kings 9:32 |
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And he lifted up his face to the window, and
said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. |
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| 2 Kings 9:33 |
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And 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 trode her under foot. |
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| 2 Kings 9:34 |
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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 a king's daughter. |
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| 2 Kings 9:35 |
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And they went to bury her: but they found no
more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. |
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| 2 Kings 9:36 |
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Wherefore they came again, and told him. And
he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the
Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: |
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| 2 Kings 9:37 |
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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,
This is Jezebel. |
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