36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This isthe word of the LORD, which
he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the
flesh of Jezebel:
37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of
Jezreel; sothat they shall not say, This isJezebel.
1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the
rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,
2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons arewith you, and there
arewith you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
3 Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set himon his father's throne,
and fight for your master's house.
4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then
shall we stand?
5 And he that wasover the house, and he that wasover the city, the elders also, and the
bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We arethy servants, and will do all that thou
shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which isgood in thine eyes.
6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye bemine, and ifye will hearken
unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to
morrow this time. Now the king's sons, beingseventy persons, werewith the great men of the
city, which brought them up.
7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew
seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him themto Jezreel.
8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's
sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.
9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye
berighteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the
LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done thatwhich he spake by his
servant Elijah.
11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and
his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. Andas he wasat the shearing house in the
way,
13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who areye? And they
answered, We arethe brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and
the children of the queen.
14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the
shearing house, eventwo and forty men; neither left he any of them.
15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab comingto meet
him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart iswith thy heart? And
Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give methine hand. And he gave himhis hand; and he took him
up to him into the chariot.
16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his
chariot.
17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had
destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but
Jehu shall serve him much.
19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let

none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to doto Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall
not live. But Jehu did itin subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not
a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full
from one end to another.
22 And he said unto him that wasover the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the
worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.
23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the
worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the
LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.
24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men
without, and said, Ifany of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth
him go, his life shall befor the life of him.
25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu
said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, andslay them; let none come forth. And they smote
them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast themout, and went to the
city of the house of Baal.
26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a
draught house unto this day.
28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
29 Howbeit fromthe sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed
not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that werein Bethel, and that werein Dan.
30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which isright in
mine eyes, andhast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that wasin mine heart, thy
children of the fourth generationshall sit on the throne of Israel.
31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of
Israel;
33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the
Manassites, from Aroer, which isby the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, arethey not written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son
reigned in his stead.
36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria wastwenty and eight years.
1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed
all the seed royal.
2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah,
and stole him from among the king's sons which wereslain; and they hid him, evenhim and his
nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the
land.
4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains
and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with
them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.
5 And he commanded them, saying, This isthe thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that

enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
6 And a third part shall beat the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so
shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the
house of the LORD about the king.
8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he
that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as
he cometh in.
9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all thingsthat Jehoiada the priest
commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them
that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that
werein the temple of the LORD.
11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the
right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, alongby the altar and the temple.
12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave himthe testimony;
and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the
king.
13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard andof the people, she came to the people
into the temple of the LORD.
14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes
and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets:
and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host,
and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the
sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the
king's house: and there was she slain.
17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they
should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and the people.
18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and
his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of
the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the
gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah
with the sword besidethe king's house.
21 Seven years old wasJehoash when he began to reign.
1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name wasZibiah of Beersheba.
2 And Jehoash did that which wasright in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada
the priest instructed him.
3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the
high places.
4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into
the house of the LORD, eventhe money of every one that passeth the account, the money that
every man is set at, andall the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house
of the LORD,