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chapter 9
1
And
Eliseus the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, slid said to him:
Gird up thy loins, and take this little bottle of oil in thy hand, and go to
Ramoth Galaad.
2 And when thou art come thither, thou shalt see Jehu
the son of Josaphat the son of Namsi: and going in thou shalt make him rise up
from amongst his brethren, and carry him into an inner chamber.
3 Then taking the little bottle of oil, thou shalt pour
it on his head, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: I have anointed thee king
over Israel. And thou shalt open the door and flee, and shalt not stay there.
4 So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went
awry to Ramoth Galaad,
5 And went in thither: and behold the captains of the
army were sitting: and he said: I have a word to thee, O prince. And Jehu said:
Unto whom of us all? And he said: To thee, O prince.
6 And he arose, and went into the chamber: and he
poured the oil upon his head, and said: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel : I
have anointed thee king over Israel, the people of the Lord.
7 And thou shalt cut off the house of Achab thy master,
and I will revenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all
the servants of the Lord at the hand of Jezabel.
8 And I will destroy all the house of Achab, and I will
cut off from Achab him that pisseth against the well, and him that is shut up,
and the meanest in Israel.
9 And I will make the house of Achab like the house of
Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and like the house of Baasa the son of Ahias.
10 And the dogs shall eat Jezabel in the field of
Jezrahel, and there shall be no one to bury her. And he opened the door and
fled.
11 Then Jehu went forth to the servants of his lord:
and they said to him: Are all things well? why came this mad man to thee? And
he said to them: You know the man, and what he said.
12 But they answered: It is false, but rather do thou
tell us. And he said to them: Thus and thus did he speak to me: and he said:
Thus saith the Lord: I have anointed thee king over Israel.
13 Then they made haste and taking every man his
garment laid it under his feet, after the manner of a judgment seat, and they
sounded the trumpet, and said: Jehu is king.
14 So Jehu the son of Josaphat the son of Namsi
conspired against Joram. Now Joram had besieged Ramoth Galaad, he and all
Israel fighting with Hazael king of Syria:
15 And was returned to be healed in Jezrahel of his
wounds, for the Syrians had wounded him, when he fought with Hazael king of
Syria. And Jehu said: If it please you, let no mall go forth or flee out of the
city, lest he go, and tell in Jezrahel.
16 And he got up, and went into Jezrahel: for Joram was
sick there, and Ochozias king of Juda was come down to visit Joram.
17 The watchmen therefore, that stood upon the tower of
Jezrahel, saw the troop of Jehu coming, and said: I see a troop. And Joram
said: Take a chariot, and send to meet them, and let him that goeth say: Is all
well?
18 So there went one in a chariot to meet him, and said
: Thus saith the king: Are all things peaceable? And Jehu said: What hast thou
to do with peace? go behind and follow me. And the watchman told, saying: The
messenger came to them, but he returneth not.
19 And he sent a second chariot of horses: and he came
to them, and said: Thus saith the king: Is there peace? And Jehu said: What
hast thou to do with peace? pass, and follow me.
20 And the watchman told, saying: He came even to them,
but returneth not: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of
Namsi, for he drives furiously.
21 And Joram said: Make ready the chariot. And they
made ready his chariot, and Joram king of Israel, and Ochozias king of Juda
went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and met him in
the field of Naboth the Jezrahelite.
22 And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is there peace,
Jehu? And he answered: What peace ? so long as the fornications of Jezabel thy
mother, and her many sorceries are in their vigour.
23 And Joram turned his hand, and fleeing, said to
Ochozias: There is treachery, Ochozias.
24 But Jehu bent Iris bow with his hand, and shot Joram
between the shoulders: and the arrow went out through his heart, and
immediately he fell in his chariot.
25 And Jehu said to Badacer his captain: Take him, and
cast him into the field of Naboth the Jezrahelite: for I remember when I and
thou sitting in a chariot followed Achab this man's father, that the Lord laid
this burden upon him, saying :
26 If I do not requite thee in this field, saith the
Lord, for the blood of Naboth, and for the blood of his children, which I saw
yesterday, saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him into the field,
according to the word of the Lord.
27 But Ochozias king of Juda seeing this, fled by the
way of the garden house : and Jehu pursued him, and said: Strike him also in
his chariot. And they struck him in the going up to Gaver, which is by Jeblaam:
and he fled into Mageddo, and died there.
28 And his servants laid him upon his chariot, and
carried him to Jerusalem: and they buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers
in the city of David.
29 In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Achab,
Ochozias reigned over Juda,
30 And Jehu came into Jezrahel. But Jezabel hearing of
his coming in, painted her face with stibic stone, and adorned her head, and
looked out of a window
31 At Jehu coming in at the gate, and said: Can there
be peace for Zambri, that hath killed his master?
32 And Jehu lifted up his face to the window, and said
: Who is this? And two or three eunuchs bowed down to him.
33 And he said to them: Throw her down headlong: and
they threw her down, and the wall was sprinkled with her blood, and the hoofs
of the horses trod upon her.
34 And when he was come in, to eat, and to drink, he
said: Go, and see after that cursed woman, and bury her: because she is a
king's daughter.
35 And when they went to bury her, they found nothing
but the skull, and the feet, and the extremities of her hands.
36 And coming back they told him. And Jehu said: It is
the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elias the Thesbite, saying:
In the field of Jezrahel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezabel,
37 And the flesh of Jezabel shall be as dung upon the
face of the earth in the field of Jezrahel, so that they who pass by shall say:
Is this that same Jezabel?
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