2 Kings 9:23–29 · BSB
9:23
Joram turned around and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”
9:24
Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot.
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9:25
And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him:
9:26
‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”
9:27
When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there.
9:28
Then his servants carried him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him with his fathers in his tomb in the City of David.
9:29
(In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.)
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