¹Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets , and said to him , “Put your belt on your waist , take this vial of oil in your hand , and go to Ramoth Gilead .

²When you come there , find Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi , and go in and make him rise up from amongst his brothers , and take him to an inner room .

³Then take the vial of oil , and pour it on his head , and say , ‘The LORD says , “I have anointed you king over Israel .”’ Then open the door , flee , and don’t wait .”

⁴So the young man , the young prophet , went to Ramoth Gilead .

⁵When he came , behold , the captains of the army were sitting . Then he said , “I have a message for you , captain .”

Jehu said , “To which one of us?”

He said , “To you , O captain .”

⁶He arose , and went into the house . Then he poured the oil on his head , and said to him , “The LORD , the God of Israel , says , ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD , even over Israel .

⁷You must strike your master Ahab’s house , that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets , and the blood of all the servants of the LORD , at the hand of Jezebel.

⁸For the whole house of Ahab will perish . I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall , both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel .[#9:8 or, male]

⁹I will make Ahab’s house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat , and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.

¹⁰The dogs will eat Jezebel on the plot of ground of Jezreel , and there shall be no one to bury her .’” Then he opened the door and fled .

¹¹When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord and one said to him , “Is all well ? Why did this madman come to you ?”

He said to them , “You know the man and how he talks.”

¹²They said, “That is a lie . Tell us now .”

He said, “He said to me , ‘The LORD says , I have anointed you king over Israel .’”

¹³Then they hurried , and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs , and blew the trumpet , saying, “Jehu is king .”

¹⁴So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram . (Now Joram was defending Ramoth Gilead , he and all Israel , because of Hazael king of Syria;

¹⁵but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said , “If this is your thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel .”

¹⁶So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel , for Joram lay there . Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram .

¹⁷Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel , and he spied the company of Jehu as he came , and said, “I see a company .”

Joram said, “Take a horseman , and send to meet them , and let him say, ‘Is it peace ?’”

¹⁸So one went on horseback to meet him , and said, “the king says , ‘Is it peace ?’”

Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace ? Fall in behind me !”

The watchman said, “The messenger came to them , but he isn’t coming back .”

¹⁹Then he sent out a second on horseback , who came to them and said, “The king says , ‘Is it peace ?’”

Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace ? Fall in behind me !”

²⁰The watchman said, “He came to them , and isn’t coming back . The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi , for he drives furiously .”

²¹Joram said , “Get ready !”

They got his chariot ready . Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out , each in his chariot ; and they went out to meet Jehu , and found him on Naboth the Jezreelite ’s land .

²²When Joram saw Jehu , he said, “Is it peace , Jehu ?”

He answered, “What peace , so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound ?”

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

²⁴Jehu 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 .

²⁵Then 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, the LORD laid this burden on him :

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

²⁷But 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 .

²⁸His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem , and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in David ’s city .

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

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

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

³²He lifted up his face to the window , and said, “Who is on my side ? Who ?”

Two or three eunuchs looked out at him .

³³He said, “Throw her down !”

So they threw her down ; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall , and on the horses . Then he trampled her under foot .

³⁴When he had come in , he ate and drank . Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman , and bury her ; for she is a king ’s daughter .”

³⁵They went to bury her , but they found no more of her than the skull , the feet , and the palms of her hands .

³⁶Therefore they came back , and told him .

He said , “This is the LORD ’s word , which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite , saying , ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel ,

³⁷and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the surface of the field on Jezreel ’s land , so that they won’t say, “This is Jezebel.”’”