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he fell in his chariot. woman, and bury her; because she is a king’s
25 And Jehu said to Badacer, his captain: daughter.
Take him, and cast him into the field of Naboth, 35 And when they went to bury her, they
the Jezrahelite: for I remember, when I and found nothing but the skull, and the feet, and
thou, sitting in a chariot, followed Achab, this the extremities of her hands.
man’s father, that the Lord laid this burden 36 And coming back they told him. And Jehu
upon him, saying: said: It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke
26 If I do not requite thee in this field, saith by his servant Elias, the Thesbite, saying: In the
the Lord, for the blood of Naboth, and for the field of Jezrahel the dogs shall eat the flesh of
blood of his children, which I saw yesterday, Jezabel.
saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him 37 And the flesh of Jezabel shall be as dung
into the field, according to the word of the Lord. upon the face of the earth in the field of Jezrahel;
27 But Ochozias, king of Juda, seeing this, so that they who pass by shall say: Is this that
fled by the way of the garden house: and Jehu same Jezabel?
pursued him, and said: Strike him also in his
chariot. And they struck him in the going up
to Gaver, which is by Jeblaam: and he fled into Chapter 10
Mageddo, and died there.
28 And his servants laid him upon his chariot, And Achab had seventy sons in Samaria: so Jehu
and carried him to Jerusalem: and they buried wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the chief
him in his sepulchre with his fathers, in the city men of the city, and to the ancients, and to them
of David. that brought up Achab’s children, saying:
29 In the eleventh year of Joram, the son of 2 As soon as you receive these letters, ye
Achab, Ochozias reigned over Juda; that have your master’s sons, and chariots, and
30 And Jehu came into Jezrahel. But Jezabel, horses, and fenced cities, and armour,
hearing of his coming in, painted her face with 3 Choose the best, and him that shall please
stibic stone, and adorned her head, and looked you most of your master’s sons, and set him on
out of a window. his father’s throne, and fight for the house of
31 At Jehu coming in at the gate, and said: your master.
Can there be peace for Zambri, that hath killed 4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said:
his master? Behold two kings could not stand before him,
32 And Jehu lifted up his face to the window, and how shall we be able to resist?
and said: Who is this? And two or three eunuchs 5 Therefore they that were over the king’s
bowed down to him. house, and the rulers of the city, and the an-
33 And he said to them: Throw her down cients, and the bringers up of the children, sent
headlong; And they threw her down, and the to Jehu, saying: We are thy servants: whatso-
wall was sprinkled with her blood, and the hoofs ever thou shalt command us we will do; we will
of the horses trod upon her. not make us any king: do thou all that pleaseth
34 And when he was come in to eat, and to thee.
drink, he said: Go, and see after that cursed 6 And he wrote letters the second time to