2 Kings 9:1-10
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9Now Elisha the prophet called one of athe sons of the prophets and said to him, “bGird up your loins, and ctake this flask of oil in your hand and go to dRamoth-gilead. 2“And you will come there and look there for aJehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi. And you will come in and 1,bbid him arise from among his brothers. And you will cause him to come in to an inner room. 3“Then you will take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “aI have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door and flee and do not wait.”
4So athe young man—the young man of the prophet—went to Ramoth-gilead. 5Then he came, and behold, the commanders of the military were sitting, and he said, “I have a word for you, O commander.” And Jehu said, “1For which one of us?” And he said, “For you, O commander.” 6And he arose and came into the house, and he poured the oil on his head and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘aI have anointed you king over the people of Yahweh, even over Israel. 7‘And you shall strike the house of Ahab your master, athat I may avenge bthe blood of My slaves the prophets, and the blood of all the slaves of Yahweh, cat the hand of Jezebel. 8‘For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and aI will cut off from Ahab bevery 1male person cboth bond and free in Israel. 9‘aAnd I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and blike the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah. 10‘aAnd the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the 1property of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.