18. So the horseman went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’ ”But Jehu said, “What have you to do with peace? Circle in behind me.”So the watchman reported, “The messenger came to them, but he is not returning.”
19. Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’ ”Again, Jehu said, “What have you to do with peace? Circle in behind me.”
20. The watchman reported, “He came to them, but he is not returning. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”
21. Then Joram said, “Hitch my chariot.” So his chariot was hitched, and Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot. They went out to meet Jehu and found him on the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.
22. When Joram saw Jehu he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?”And he said, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are so many?”
23. Then Joram turned the reins, fled, and said to Ahaziah, “There is treachery, Ahaziah.”
24. Jehu drew a bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his shoulder blades. The arrow went out at his heart, and he kneeled down in his chariot.
25. Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Lift him up and throw him on the property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. Remember when you and I were riding together after Ahab his father and the Lord pronounced this oracle about him:
26. ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and his sons, declares the Lord, and I will pay you back on this property, declares the Lord.’ Now lift him up and throw him onto the property, according to the word of the Lord.”
27. But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled on the path to the garden house. Jehu chased after him and said, “Shoot him too.” So they shot him on the ascent to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there.
28. His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the City of David.
29. In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.
30. When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard about it. She put black paint on her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down through the window.