II Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 387
The History of the People of Israel
intention, let none escape from_ the town to go to report in jezrahal. (ac. 884.) Qebu Narzhzs nn Qzgrahal. 16 18 20 2I 22 jehu then mounted and marched
towards jezrahal ; for joram was stay- ing there, and Akhaziah, king of judah, had come to visit Joram. A watchman, however, was posted
on the tower in jezrahal, and he saw the squadrons of jehu as I see squadrons!' Take a horseman,
and send to meet them, and enquire if all is peace! A horseman therefore went to
The king asks this, ‘ Is all peace? What have
you to do with peace? Turn behind The watchman again reported,
The messenger arrived at them-——·but does not return ! Then he sent a second horseman,
who came to him, and said, “The king asks this, ‘ Is all peace What have
you to do with peace? Turn behind Again the watchman reported,
He arrived at them-»but does not return! And the driving is like the driving of jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives like a mad- I-Iarness l And they harnessed his chariot; and joram, king of Israel, went out with Akhaziah, king of judah, each in his chariotyand advanced to meet jehu, and they met him at the farm of Naboth the jezreelite. And when Is all peace, jehu? How can there
be peace while the whoredoms of your mother Aisabel, and her per- sonmgs are so many Then joram turned his hand and
It isa rebellion, Akhaziahf jehu, however, seized his how and
hit joram between his arms, andthe arrow passed through his heart, and he dropped down in the chariot. Then he said to Bidkar, the 25 Lift him up, and Bing him out on the vine- yard of Naboth the ]ezreelite,——for remember when I and you were riding together after Akhab his father, the Even-Livme laid this burden upon him: ‘As I saw the blood of 26 Naboth, and the blood of his sons, last night (says the LORD), I will repay it to you upon this very farm} the EvER—L1v1NG declared. So new take, and fling him on. to the spot, according to the word of the EVER- And Akhaziah, king of judah, saw it. Then he lied towards the garden-
house; butvjehu followed after him, Him also! They wounded him in his chariot
at the ascent of the summer-house at Iblam; but he lied to Megido, and died there, and his oliicers carried him in the chariot to jerusalem, and buried him in the graves of his fathers, in the City of David. (lt was in the eleventh year of
]oram—ben-Akhab that Akhaziah had begun to reign over judah.) (ac. 884.) {grail; uf Jzgnhri.
But Aisabel heard of the coming of
jehu towards jezreel, so she painted her face, and adorned her head, and looked out of a window; and when he came to the court she asked: Had Zimri peace who slew his But he raised his face to the win-
Who is on my When two or three eunuchs looked out to him; then he So they threw her down, and her blood splashed the wall, and the horses who trampled upon her! Then he entered, and ate and
Pick up that damned woman, and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter} They therefore went to bury her,
but found nothing of her, except her skull, and feet, and the palms of her hands. So they returned and reported it to
It was the sentence of the EVER-L1v1NG, which He delivered by the means of His ser- vant Eliah the T hishbite, saying, Upon the vineyard of jezreel dogs shall eat the carcase of Aisabell 3**7 28 32 33 34 35
