2 Kings 9Anointing of Jehu9:1 Then the prophet Elisha called a member of the company of prophets and said to him, ‘Gird up your loins; take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead. 2 When you arrive, look there for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi; go in and get him to leave his companions, and take him into an inner chamber. 3Then take the flask of oil, pour it on his head, and say, “Thus says the Lord: I anoint you king over Israel.” Then open the door and flee; do not linger.’ 4 So the young man, the young prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead. 5 He arrived while the commanders of the army were in council, and he announced, ‘I have a message for you, commander.’ ‘For which one of us?’ asked Jehu. ‘For you, commander.’ 6 So Jehu got up and went inside; the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, ‘Thus says the Lord the God of Israel: I anoint you king over the people of the Lord, over Israel. 7 You shall strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge on Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord. 8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel. 9 I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah. 10 The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and no one shall bury her.’ Then he opened the door and fled. 11 When Jehu came back to his master’s officers, they said to him, ‘Is everything all right? Why did that madman come to you?’ He answered them, ‘You know the sort and how they babble.’ 12 They said, ‘Liar! Come on, tell us!’ So he said, ‘This is just what he said to me: “Thus says the Lord, I anoint you king over Israel.” ’ 13 Then hurriedly they all took their cloaks and spread them for him on the bare steps; and they blew the trumpet, and proclaimed, ‘Jehu is king.’ Joram of Israel Killed14 Thus Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Joram with all Israel had been on guard at Ramoth-gilead against King Hazael of Aram; 15 but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him, when he fought against King Hazael of Aram. So Jehu said, ‘If this is your wish, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.’ 16 Then Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, where Joram was lying ill. King Ahaziah of Judah had come down to visit Joram. 17 In Jezreel, the sentinel standing on the tower spied the company of Jehu arriving, and said, ‘I see a company.’ Joram said, ‘Take a horseman; send him to meet them, and let him say, “Is it peace?” ’ 18 So the horseman went to meet him; he said, ‘Thus says the king, “Is it peace?” ’ Jehu responded, ‘What have you to do with peace? Fall in behind me.’ The sentinel reported, saying, ‘The messenger reached them, but he 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?” ’ Jehu answered, ‘What have you to do with peace? Fall in behind me.’ 20 Again the sentinel reported, ‘He reached them, but he is not coming back. It looks like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi; for he drives like a maniac.’ 21 Joram said, ‘Get ready.’ And they got his chariot ready. Then King Joram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah set out, each in his chariot, and went to meet Jehu; they met him at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite. 22 When Joram saw Jehu, he said, ‘Is it peace, Jehu?’ He answered, ‘What peace can there be, so long as the many whoredoms and sorceries of your mother Jezebel continue?’ 23 Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahaziah, ‘Treason, Ahaziah!’ 24 Jehu drew his bow with all his strength, and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart; and he sank in his chariot. 25 Jehu said to his aide Bidkar, ‘Lift him out, and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when you and I rode side by side behind his father Ahab, how the Lord uttered this oracle against him: 26 “For the blood of Naboth and for the blood of his children that I saw yesterday, says the Lord, I swear I will repay you on this very plot of ground.” Now therefore lift him out and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the Lord.’ Ahaziah of Judah Killed27 When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Beth-haggan. Jehu pursued him, saying, ‘Shoot him also!’ And they shot him in the chariot at the ascent to Gur, which is by Ibleam. Then he fled to Megiddo, and died there. 28 His officers carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the city of David. 29 In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah. Jezebel’s Violent Death
2 Kings 10Massacre of Ahab’s Descendants
12 Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds, 13 Jehu met relatives of King Ahaziah of Judah and said, ‘Who are you?’ They answered, ‘We are kin of Ahaziah; we have come down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother.’ 14 He said, ‘Take them alive.’ They took them alive, and slaughtered them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two in all; he spared none of them. 15 When he left there, he met Jehonadab son of Rechab coming to meet him; he greeted him, and said to him, ‘Is your heart as true to mine as mine is to yours?’ Jehonadab answered, ‘It is.’ Jehu said, ‘If it is, give me your hand.’ So he gave him his hand. Jehu took him up with him into the chariot. 16 He said, ‘Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord.’ So hehad him ride in his chariot. 17 When he came to Samaria, he killed all who were left to Ahab in Samaria, until he had wiped them out, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke to Elijah. Slaughter of Worshippers of Baal
Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside, saying, ‘Whoever allows any of those to escape whom I deliver into your hands shall forfeit his life.’25 As soon as he had finished presenting the burnt-offering, Jehu said to the guards and to the officers, ‘Come in and kill them; let no one escape.’ So they put them to the sword. The guards and the officers threw them out, and then went into the citadel of the temple of Baal. 26 They brought out the pillar that was in the temple of Baal, and burned it. 27 Then they demolished the pillar of Baal, and destroyed the temple of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.
Death of Jehu32 In those days the Lord began to trim off parts of Israel. Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel: 33 from the Jordan eastwards, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the Wadi Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan. 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, all that he did, and all his power, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel? 35 So Jehu slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in Samaria. His son Jehoahaz succeeded him. 36 The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years. (2 Kings 9-10)
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Saul | 1050-1010 BC |
David | 1010-970 |
Solomon | 970-930 |
Judah (and Benjamin) |
Israel (Ten Northern Tribes) |
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King | Reign | Character | Prophets | King | Reign | Character | Prophets | ||
1. Rehoboam | 931-913 | 17 years | Bad | Shemaiah | 1. Jeroboam I | 931-910 | 22 years | Bad | Ahijah |
2. Abijah | 913-911 | 3 years | Bad | 2. Nadab | 910-909 | 2 years | Bad | ||
3. Asa | 911-870 | 41 years | Good | 3. Baasha | 909-886 | 24 years | Bad | ||
4. Elah | 886-885 | 2 years | Bad | ||||||
5. Zimri | 885 | 7 days | Bad | ||||||
6. Omri | 885-874* | 12 years | Bad | Elijah Micaiah | |||||
4. Jehoshaphat | 870-848* | 25 years | Good | 7. Ahab | 874-853 | 22 years | Bad | ||
5. Jehoram | 848-841* | 8 years | Bad | 8. Ahaziah | 853-852 | 2 years | Bad | ||
6. Ahaziah | 841 | 1 years | Bad | 9. Joram | 852-841 | 12 years | Bad | Elisha | |
7. Athaliah | 841-835 | 6 years | Bad | 10. Jehu | 841-814 | 28 years | Bad | ||
8. Joash | 835-796 | 40 years | Good | Joel | 11. Jehoahaz | 814-798 | 17 years | Bad | Jonah Amos Hosea |
9. Amaziah | 796-767 | 29 years | Good | 12. Jehoash | 798-782 | 16 years | Bad | ||
10. Uzziah (Azariah) | 767-740* | 52 years | Good | Isaiah Micah |
13. Jeroboam II | 782-753* | 41 years | Bad | |
11. Jotham | 740-732* | 16 years | Good | 14. Zechariah | 753-752 | 6 mo | Bad | ||
12. Ahaz | 732-716 | 16 years | Bad | 15. Shallum | 752 | 1 mo | Bad | ||
13. Hezekiah | 716-687 | 29 years | Good | 16. Menahem | 752-742 | 10 years | Bad | ||
14. Manasseh | 687-642* | 55 years | Bad/Repented | Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah |
17. Pekahiah | 742-740 | 2 years | Bad | |
15. Amon | 642-640 | 2 years | Bad | 18. Pekah | 740-732* | 20 years | Bad | ||
16. Josiah | 640-608 | 31 years | Good | 19. Hoshea | 732-712 | 9 years | Bad | ||
17. Jehoahaz | 608 | 3 mo | Bad | 722 BC Fall of Samaria to Assyria | |||||
18. Jehoiakim | 608-597 | 11 years | Bad | Daniel |
* Co-regency |
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19. Jehoiachin | 597 | 3 mos | Bad | ||||||
20. Zedekiah | 597-586 | 11 years | Bad | ||||||
Destruction of Jerusalem, 9th Av, 586 BC, Babylonian Captivity |
1. Josiah Reigned 31 years (640-609 BC) |
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2. Jehoahaz (Shallum) Reigned 3 months (609 BC) Taken prisoner to Egypt by Pharaoh Neco |
3. Jehoiakim (Eliakim) Reigned 11 years (609-598 BC) Died in Jerusalem |
5. Zedekiah Reigned 11 years (597--586 BC) Taken prisoner to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar |
4. Jehoichin (Jeconiah, Coniah) Reigned 3 months (December 9, 598 - March 16, 597 BC) Taken prisoner to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar (with Ezekiel) |
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