Lexham English Bible

2 Kings 9:24-37 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

24. Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between his shoulders so that the arrow went out from his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot.

25. He said to Bidkar his third servant, “Lift him out and throw him on the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for remember, you and I were with the pair of chariots behind Ahab his father when Yahweh pronounced this oracle against him:

26. ‘ “Since I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his children yesterday,” declares Yahweh, “I will requite it for you in this tract of land,” declares Yahweh.’ So then lift him out and throw him on the tract of land according to the word of Yahweh.”

27. When Ahaziah king of Judah saw, he fled the way of Beth-Haggen. Jehu pursued after him and said, “Shoot him also, in the chariot.” They shot him at the ascent of Gur which is in Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo, but he died there.

28. Then his officers carried him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the city of David.

29. In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.

30. When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, so she painted her eyes with black eye paint and adorned her head and looked through the window.

31. Now Jehu had come in the gate, so she said, “Is it peace, O Zimri, murderer of his master?”

32. When he lifted up his face to the window, he asked, “Who is with me?” Two or three eunuchs looked down to him.

33. So he said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down, and her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled her.

34. Then he came and ate and drank, and said, “Please take care of this cursed one and bury her, for she is the daughter of a king.”

35. When they went to bury her, they could not find her, except the skull, the feet, and the palms of the hands.

36. They returned and told him, and he said, “This is the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘On the plot of ground of Jezreel, the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel.’ ”

37. So the dead body of Jezebel became dung on the surface spread on the field in the plot of ground of Jezreel, so one cannot say, “This is Jezebel.”