16. So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was laid up there; and Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
17. Now a watchman stood on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company of men.”And Joram said, “Get a horseman and send him to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’ ”
18. So the 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 around and follow me.”So the watchman reported, saying, “The messenger went to them, but is not coming back.”
19. Then he sent out a second horseman who came to them, and said, “Thus says the king: ‘Is it peace?’ ”And Jehu answered, “What have you to do with peace? Turn around and follow me.”
20. So the watchman reported, saying, “He went up to them and is not coming back; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously!”