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So Hazael went to meet him and took a present in his hand, even every kind of good thing of Damascus, forty camels' loads; and he came and stood before him and said, "Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I be restored to life from this sickness?'"

So he went from Elisha and came to his master. And he said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" And he said, "He said to me that you would surely be restored to life."

Now it happened that on the following day, he took the cover and dipped it in water and spread it on his face; so he died. And Hazael became king in his place.

So Edom revolted against Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.

So King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had caused by striking him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick.

So the young man—the young man of the prophet—went to Ramoth-gilead.

So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Now Joram with all Israel was guarding Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,

but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had struck him with when he fought with Hazael king of Aram. So Jehu said, "If this is your mind, then let no one escape or leave the city to go declare it in Jezreel."

So a horseman went to meet him and said, "Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?'" And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me." And the watchman declared saying, "The messenger came to them, but he did not return."

Now it happened that when Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" And he answered, "What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are so many?"

So Joram turned about and fled and said to Ahaziah, "There is deception, O Ahaziah!"

‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,' says Yahweh, ‘and I will repay you in this property,' says Yahweh. So now, lift him up and cast him into the property, according to the word of Yahweh."

And Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this and fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu pursued him and said, "Strike him down too, in the chariot." So they struck him down at the ascent of Gur, which is at Ibleam. But he fled to Megiddo and died there.

And he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her under foot.

and the corpse of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field in the property of Jezreel, so they cannot say, "This is Jezebel."'"

"So now, when this letter comes to you, since your master's sons are with you, as well as the chariots and horses and a fortified city and the weapons,

Then the messenger came and told him, saying, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons." So he said, "Put them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning."

So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men and his acquaintances and his priests, until there was no survivor remaining for him.

Then he said, "Take them alive." So they took them alive and slaughtered them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two men; and he left none of them.