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2 Kings 9 📜 📕 ↷
24 Moreover Jehu bent his bow with his hand, and struck Joram between the shoulders: and the arrow went out through his heart, & immediately he fell in his chariot.📜💬📚
25 And Jehu said to captain Badacer: Take him, throw him forth in the field of Naboth the Jezrahelite: for I remember when I and thou sitting in a chariot did follow Achab this man's father, that our Lord lifted up this burden upon him, saying:📜💬📚
26 If not for the blood of Naboth, and for the blood of his children, which I saw yesterday, saith our Lord, I requite thee not in this field saith our Lord. Now therefore take him, & throw him into the field according to the word of our Lord.📜💬📚
27 But Ochozias the king of Juda seeing this, fled by the way of the house of the garden: & Jehu pursued him, and said: This man also strike ye in his chariot. And they struck him in the going up of Gaver, which is beside Jeblaam: who fled into Mageddo, and died there.📜💬📚
28 And his servants laid him upon his chariot, and carried him into Jerusalem: and they buried him there in his sepulchre with his fathers in the City of David.📜💬📚
29 In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Achab, reigned Ochozias over Juda,📜💬📚
Jezebel's Violent Death
30 and Jehu came into Jezrahel. Moreover Jezabel hearing of his entrance, painted her face with stibic stone, and decked her head, & beheld through the window📜💬📚
31 Jehu coming at the gate, and said: Can there be peace to Zambri, that killed his master?📜💬📚
32 And Jehu lifted up his face to the window, and said: What is she? And two or three eunuchs bowed themselves to him.📜💬📚
33 But he said to them: Cast her down headlong, and they threw her down and the wall was sprinkled with the blood, and the hoofs of the horses trod her.📜💬📚
34 And when he was entered in to eat and to drink, he said: Go, and see 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 extreme parts of the hands.📜💬📚
36 And returning they told him. And Jehu said: It is the word of our Lord, which he spake by his servant Elias the Thesbite, saying: In the field of Jezrahel shall the dogs 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 which pass by shall say: Is this that same Jezabel?📜💬📚
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