20. Again the watchman reported, “He reached them but hasn’t started back. Also, the driving is like that of Jehu son of Nimshi — he drives like a madman.”
21. “Harness! ” Joram shouted, and they harnessed his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his own chariot, and met Jehu at the plot of land of Naboth the Jezreelite.
22. When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Do you come in peace, Jehu? ”He answered, “What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and witchcraft from your mother Jezebel? ”
23. Joram turned around and fled, shouting to Ahaziah, “It’s treachery, Ahaziah! ”
24. Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow went through his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot.
25. Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, “Pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember when you and I were riding side by side behind his father Ahab, and the Lord uttered this oracle against him:
26. ‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday’ — this is the Lord’s declaration — ‘so will I repay you on this plot of land’ — this is the Lord’s declaration. So now, according to the word of the Lord, pick him up and throw him on the plot of land.”
27. When King Ahaziah of Judah saw what was happening, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too! ” So they shot him in his chariot at Gur Pass near Ibleam, but he fled to Megiddo and died there.
28. Then his servants carried him to Jerusalem in a chariot and buried him in his fathers’ tomb in the city of David.
29. It was in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab that Ahaziah had become king over Judah.