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When ^(F1)Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is your intention peace, Jehu?" And he ^(F2)answered, "What 'peace,' ^(C1)so long as your mother Jezebel's acts of prostitution and witchcraft are so many?"

So ^(F1)Joram ^(F2)turned back and fled, and he said to Ahaziah, "^(C1)There is treachery, Ahaziah!"

Then ^(C1)Jehu ^(F1)drew his bow with his full strength and ^(F2)shot ^(F3)Joram between his arms; and the arrow went ^(F4)through his heart, and he sank in his chariot.

And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, "Pick him up and ^(C1)throw him on the ^(F1)property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when ^(F2)you and I were riding together after his father Ahab, that the ^(C2)LORD brought this ^(C3)pronouncement against him:

'^(C1)I have certainly seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,' declares the LORD, 'and ^(C2)I will repay you on this ^(F1)property,' declares the LORD. Now then, pick him up and throw him on the ^(F1)property, in accordance with the word of the LORD."

^(C1)When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by way of the garden house. But Jehu pursued him and said, "^(F1)Shoot him too, in the chariot." So they shot him at the ascent of Gur, which is at ^(C2)Ibleam. But he fled to Megiddo and died there.

^(C1)Then his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his grave with his fathers in the city of David.

Now in ^(C1)the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.

When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard about it, and ^(C1)she put makeup on her eyes and adorned her head, and looked down through the window.