9 A·liʹsha the prophet then called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him: “Wrap your garments around your waist, and quickly take this flask of oil with you and go to Raʹmoth-gilʹe·ad. 2 When you arrive there, look for Yeʹhu the son of Ye·hoshʹa·phat the son of Nimʹshi; go in and have him get up from among his brothers and take him into the innermost room. 3 Then take the flask of oil and pour it out on his head and say, ‘This is what Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} says: “I anoint you as king over Isra'Al.”’ Then open the door and flee without delay.”
4 So the prophet’s attendant got on his way to Raʹmoth-gilʹe·ad. 5 When he arrived, the army chiefs were seated there. He said: “I have a message for you, O chief.” Yeʹhu asked: “For which one of us?” He said: “For you, O chief.” 6 So Yeʹhu got up and went into the house; the attendant poured the oil out on his head and said to him, “This is what Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} the Al {pre. Ahl} of Isra'Al says: ‘I anoint you as king over Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}’s people, over Isra'Al. 7 You must strike down the house of Aʹhab your lord, and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and of all the servants of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} who died at the hands of Yezʹe·bel. 8 And the whole house of Aʹhab will perish; and I will annihilate from Aʹhab every male, including the helpless and weak in Isra'Al. 9 And I will make the house of Aʹhab like the house of Yer·o·boʹam the son of Neʹbat and like the house of Baʹa·sha the son of A·hiʹyah. 10 As for Yezʹe·bel, the dogs will eat her up in the plot of land at Yezʹre·Al, and no one will bury her.’” With that he opened the door and fled.
11 When Yeʹhu went back to the servants of his lord, they asked him: “Is everything all right? Why did this crazy man come to you?” He answered them: “You know that sort of man and his sort of talk.” 12 But they said: “That is not true! Tell us, please.” Then he said: “This is what he said to me, and then he added, ‘This is what Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} says: “I anoint you as king over Isra'Al.”’” 13 At this each of them quickly took his garment and put it under him on the bare steps, and they blew the horn and said: “Yeʹhu has become king!” 14 Then Yeʹhu the son of Ye·hoshʹa·phat the son of Nimʹshi conspired against Ye·hoʹram.
Ye·hoʹram had been on guard at Raʹmoth-gilʹe·ad, he with all Isra'Al, because of King Hazʹa·Al of Syria. 15 King Ye·hoʹram later returned to Yezʹre·Al to recover from the wounds that the Syrians inflicted on him when he fought King Hazʹa·Al of Syria.
Yeʹhu now said: “If you agree, do not let anyone escape from the city to go and report this in Yezʹre·Al.” 16 Then Yeʹhu mounted his chariot and went to Yezʹre·Al, for Ye·hoʹram was lying there wounded, and King A·ha·zyʹah of Judah had gone down to see Ye·hoʹram. 17 As the watchman was standing on the tower in Yezʹre·Al, he saw the throng of Yeʹhu’s men approaching. At once he said: “I see a throng of men.” Ye·hoʹram said: “Take a cavalryman and send him to meet them, and let him say, ‘Are you coming in peace?’” 18 So a horseman went to meet him and said: “This is what the king says, ‘Are you coming in peace?’” But Yeʹhu said: “What do you have to do with ‘peace’? Fall in behind me!”
The watchman then reported: “The messenger reached them, but he has not returned.” 19 So he sent out a second horseman, who said when he came to them: “This is what the king says, ‘Are you coming in peace?’” But Yeʹhu said: “What do you have to do with ‘peace’? Fall in behind me!”
20 The watchman then reported: “He reached them, but he has not returned, and the driving is like the driving of Yeʹhu the grandson of Nimʹshi, for he drives like a madman.” 21 Ye·hoʹram said: “Hitch up!” So his war chariot was hitched up and King Ye·hoʹram of Isra'Al and King A·ha·zyʹah of Judah each went out in his own war chariot to meet Yeʹhu. They encountered him in the plot of land of Naʹboth the Yezʹre·Al·ite.
22 As soon as Ye·hoʹram saw Yeʹhu, he said: “Are you coming in peace, Yeʹhu?” But he said: “What peace could there be as long as there is the prostitution of Yezʹe·bel your mother and her many sorceries?” 23 At once Ye·hoʹram turned his chariot to flee, and he said to A·ha·zyʹah: “We have been tricked, A·ha·zyʹah!” 24 Yeʹhu took his bow in hand and shot Ye·hoʹram between the shoulders, and the arrow came out at his heart, and he collapsed in his war chariot. 25 He then said to Bidʹkar his adjutant: “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naʹboth the Yezʹre·Al·ite. Remember, you and I were riding together behind Aʹhab his father when Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} himself made this pronouncement against him: 26 ‘“As surely as I saw the blood of Naʹboth and the blood of his sons yesterday,” declares Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}, “I will repay you in this very plot of land,” declares Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}.’ So now pick him up and throw him into the plot of land, according to the word of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}.”
27 When King A·ha·zyʹah of Judah saw what was happening, he fled by way of the garden house. (Later Yeʹhu pursued him and said: “Strike him down also!” So they struck him down in the chariot on his way up to Gur, which is by Ibʹle·am. But he continued his flight to Me·gidʹdo and died there. 28 Then his servants carried him in a chariot to Yerushalom, and they buried him in his grave with his forefathers in the City of David. 29 It was in the 11th year of Ye·hoʹram the son of Aʹhab that A·ha·zyʹah had become king over Judah.)
30 When Yeʹhu came to Yezʹre·Al, Yezʹe·bel heard of it. So she painted her eyes with black paint and adorned her head and looked down through the window. 31 As Yeʹhu came in through the gate, she said: “Did it go well with Zimʹri, the killer of his lord?” 32 Looking up to the window, he said: “Who is on my side? Who?” Immediately two or three court officials looked down at him. 33 He said: “Throw her down!” So they threw her down, and some of her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her. 34 After that he went in and ate and drank. He then said: “Please, take care of this accursed woman and bury her. After all, she is the daughter of a king.” 35 But when they went to bury her, they did not find anything but her skull and her feet and the palms of her hands. 36 When they returned and told him, he said: “This fulfills the word of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} that he spoke through his servant A·liʹyah the Tishʹbite, saying, ‘In the plot of land of Yezʹre·Al, the dogs will eat the flesh of Yezʹe·bel. 37 And the dead body of Yezʹe·bel will become as manure on the surface of the field in the plot of land of Yezʹre·Al, so that they may not say: “This is Yezʹe·bel.”’”