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2 Kings 9:23-32 World English Bible (WEB)

23. Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, “This is treason, Ahaziah!”

24. Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

25. Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:

26. ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”

27. But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. 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 David’s city.

29. In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.

30. When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.

31. As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”

32. He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.

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