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At this, they hurried each one to take his cloak and put it under Yehu at the top of the stairs. Then they blew the shofar and proclaimed, "Yehu is king!"

"Harness my chariot!" ordered Yoram. They got it ready. Then Yoram king of Isra'el and Achazyah king of Y'hudah, each in his chariot, went out to meet Yehu. They met him in the field of Navot the Yizre‘eli.

Yehu drew his bow with all his strength and struck Yoram between the shoulder-blades; the arrow went through his heart, and he collapsed in his chariot.

"Pick him up," said Yehu to Bidkar his servant, "and throw him into the field of Navot the Yizre‘eli; for remember how, when you and I were riding together after Ach'av his father, Adonai pronounced this sentence against him:

‘ Adonai says: "Yesterday I saw the blood of Navot and the blood of his sons." Adonai also says: "I will pay you back in this field."' Therefore, pick him up; and throw him into the field, in keeping with what Adonai said."

But when Achazyah the king of Y'hudah saw this, he fled on the road past Beit-HaGan. Yehu pursued him and ordered, "Strike him too in his chariot!" [So they struck him] at the Gur ascent, near Yivle‘am. He fled to Megiddo, but there he died.

His servants carried him in a chariot to Yerushalayim and buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the City of David.

It was in the eleventh year of Yoram the son of Ach'av that Achazyah had begun his rule over Y'hudah.

So they came back and told him. He said, "This is what Adonai said through his servant Eliyahu from Tishbe: ‘In the field of Yizre‘el the dogs will eat the flesh of Izevel;

choose the best and most suitable of your master's sons, set him on his father's throne and fight for your master's dynasty."

Understand, then, that no part of Adonai 's word which Adonai spoke concerning the dynasty of Ach'av falls to the ground; because Adonai has done what he said through his servant Eliyahu."

So Yehu killed everyone who remained from the house of Ach'av in Yizre‘el, all his leading men, his close friends and his cohanim, until not one of them was left alive.

On leaving there, he happened upon Y'honadav the son of Rekhav coming toward him. He greeted him and said to him, "Are you wholeheartedly with me, as I am with you?" "Yes," answered Y'honadav. "If so, give me your hand." He gave him his hand, and Yehu took him up into the chariot.

He said, "Come with me, and see how zealous I am for Adonai ." So they had him ride in his chariot.

Therefore summon all the prophets of Ba‘al to me, all his worshippers and all his priests. None of them is to be missing, because I am going to offer a great sacrifice to Ba‘al; whoever is missing will not remain alive." But Yehu was setting a trap, in order to destroy the worshippers of Ba‘al.

Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. But Yehu had chosen eighty men to remain outside. He said, "If any of the men I am about to put in your hands escapes, it will be your life for his."

Other activities of Yehu, all his accomplishments and all his power are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Isra'el.

Yehu slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in Shomron. Then Y'ho'achaz his son became king in his place.

But Y'hosheva the daughter of King Yoram, sister of Achazyah, took Yo'ash the son of Achazyah and stole him away from among the princes who were being slaughtered. She took him and his nurse, sequestered them in a bedroom, and hid them from ‘Atalyah, so that he was not killed.

He remained hidden with his nurse in the house of Adonai for six years; during this time ‘Atalyah ruled the land.