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2 Kings 9:24-32 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

24. Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between his shoulders so that the arrow went out from his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot.

25. He said to Bidkar his third servant, “Lift him out and throw him on the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for remember, you and I were with the pair of chariots behind Ahab his father when Yahweh pronounced this oracle against him:

26. ‘ “Since I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his children yesterday,” declares Yahweh, “I will requite it for you in this tract of land,” declares Yahweh.’ So then lift him out and throw him on the tract of land according to the word of Yahweh.”

27. When Ahaziah king of Judah saw, he fled the way of Beth-Haggen. Jehu pursued after him and said, “Shoot him also, in the chariot.” They shot him at the ascent of Gur which is in Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo, but he died there.

28. Then his officers carried him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the city of David.

29. In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.

30. When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, so she painted her eyes with black eye paint and adorned her head and looked through the window.

31. Now Jehu had come in the gate, so she said, “Is it peace, O Zimri, murderer of his master?”

32. When he lifted up his face to the window, he asked, “Who is with me?” Two or three eunuchs looked down to him.

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