Liber Secundus Regum

II Regum, chapter 9, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 9 Vulgate

   1 Eliseus autem prophetes vocavit unum de filiis prophetarum et ait illi: "Accinge lumbos tuos et tolle lenticulam olei hanc in manu tua et vade in Ramoth Galaad.
   2 Cumque veneris illuc, videbis Iehu filium Iosaphat filii Namsi et ingressus suscitabis eum de medio fratrum suorum et introduces interius cubiculum.
   3 Tenensque lenticulam olei fundes super caput eius et dices: "Haec dicit Dominus: Unxi te regem super Israel". Aperiesque ostium et fugies et non ibi subsistes".
   4 Abiit ergo adulescens puer prophetae Ramoth Galaad
   5 et ingressus est. Ecce autem principes exercitus sedebant, et ait: "Verbum mihi ad te, princeps". Dixitque Iehu: "Ad quem ex omnibus nobis?". At ille dixit: "Ad te, o princeps".
   6 Et surrexit et ingressus est cubiculum. At ille fudit oleum super caput eius et ait: "Haec dicit Dominus, Deus Israel: Unxi te regem super populum Domini, super Israel.
   7 Percuties domum Achab domini tui, ut ulciscar sanguinem servorum meorum prophetarum et sanguinem omnium servorum Domini de manu Iezabel.
   8 Perdamque omnem domum Achab et interficiam de Achab quidquid masculini sexus et impuberem et puberem in Israel.
   9 Et dabo domum Achab sicut domum Ieroboam filii Nabat et sicut domum Baasa filii Ahiae.
   10 Iezabel quoque comedent canes in agro Iezrahel, nec erit qui sepeliat eam". Aperuitque ostium et fugit.
   11 Iehu autem egressus est ad servos domini sui, qui dixerunt ei: "Rectene sunt omnia? Quid venit insanus iste ad te?". Qui ait eis: "Nostis hominem et loquelam eius".
   12 At illi responderunt: "Mendacium! Narra nobis!". Qui ait eis: "Haec et haec locutus est mihi dicens: "Haec dicit Dominus: Unxi te regem super Israel" ".
   13 Festinaverunt itaque et unusquisque tollens pallium suum posuerunt sub pedibus eius super structuram graduum et cecinerunt tuba atque dixerunt: "Regnavit Iehu!".
   14 Coniuravit ergo Iehu filius Iosaphat filii Namsi contra Ioram. Porro Ioram defenderat Ramoth Galaad ipse et omnis Israel contra Hazael regem Syriae
   15 et reversus fuerat, ut curaretur in Iezrahel propter vulnera, quia percusserant eum Syri proeliantem contra Hazael regem Syriae. Dixitque Iehu: "Si placet vobis, nemo egrediatur profugus de civitate, ne vadat et nuntiet in Iezrahel".
   16 Et ascendit et profectus est in Iezrahel; Ioram enim aegrotabat ibi, et Ochozias rex Iudae descenderat ad visitandum Ioram.
   17 Igitur speculator, qui stabat super turrim Iezrahel, vidit globum Iehu venientis et ait: "Video ego globum". Dixitque Ioram: "Tolle equitem et mitte in occursum eorum, et dicat vadens: "Rectene sunt omnia?" ".
   18 Abiit igitur, qui ascenderat equum in occursum eius, et ait: "Haec dicit rex: Pacatane sunt omnia?". Dixitque ei Iehu: "Quid tibi et paci? Transi et sequere me". Nuntiavit quoque speculator dicens: "Venit nuntius ad eos et non revertitur".
   19 Misit etiam equitem secundum; venitque ad eos et ait: "Haec dicit rex: Num pax est?". Et ait Iehu: "Quid tibi et paci? Transi et sequere me".
   20 Nuntiavit autem speculator dicens: "Venit usque ad eos et non revertitur. Est autem incessus quasi incessus Iehu filii Namsi; praeceps enim graditur".
   21 Et ait Ioram: "Iunge currum!". Iunxeruntque currum eius, et egressus est Ioram rex Israel et Ochozias rex Iudae singuli in curribus suis. Egressique sunt in occursum Iehu et invenerunt eum in agro Naboth Iezrahelitis.
   22 Cumque vidisset Ioram Iehu, dixit: "Estne pax, Iehu?". At ille respondit: "Quae pax? Adhuc fornicationes Iezabel matris tuae et veneficia eius multa vigent!".
   23 Convertit autem Ioram manum suam et fugiens ait ad Ochoziam: "Insidiae, Ochozia!".
   24 Porro Iehu tetendit arcum manu et percussit Ioram inter scapulas. Et egressa est sagitta per cor eius; statimque corruit in curru suo.
   25 Dixitque Iehu ad Badacer ducem: "Tolle, proice eum in agro Naboth Iezrahelitae! Memento enim: ego et tu eramus cum his, qui vectabantur gemini post Achab patrem huius, quando Dominus onus hoc levavit super eum dicens:
   26 "Pro sanguine Naboth et pro sanguine filiorum eius, quem vidi heri, ait Dominus, reddam tibi in agro isto, dicit Dominus". Nunc igitur tolle, proice eum in agro iuxta verbum Domini".
   27 Ochozias autem rex Iudae videns hoc fugit per viam Bethgan; persecutusque est eum Iehu et ait: "Etiam hunc percutite!". Et percusserunt eum in curru suo in ascensu Gaver, qui est iuxta Ieblaam. Qui fugit in Mageddo et mortuus est ibi.
   28 Et imposuerunt eum servi eius super currum suum et tulerunt Ierusalem sepelieruntque in sepulcro cum patribus suis in civitate David.
   29 Anno undecimo Ioram filii Achab regnavit Ochozias super Iudam.
   30 Venit Iehu Iezrahel. Porro Iezabel, introitu eius audito, depinxit oculos suos stibio et ornavit caput suum et respexit per fenestram
   31 ingredientem Iehu per portam et ait: "Numquid pax esse potest Zamri, qui interfecit dominum suum?".
   32 Levavitque Iehu faciem suam ad fenestram et ait: "Quis est mecum, quisnam?". Et inclinaverunt se ad eum duo vel tres eunuchi.
   33 At ille dixit eis: "Praecipitate eam deorsum!". Et praecipitaverunt eam; aspersusque est sanguine paries et equi, qui conculcaverunt eam.
   34 Cumque ingressus esset, ut comederet biberetque, ait: "Ite, videte maledictam illam et sepelite eam, quia filia regis est".
   35 Cumque issent, ut sepelirent eam, non invenerunt nisi calvariam et pedes et summas manus.
   36 Reversique nuntiaverunt ei. Et ait Iehu: "Sermo Domini est, quem locutus est per servum suum Eliam Thesbiten dicens: In agro Iezrahel comedent canes carnes Iezabel;
   37 et erit cadaver Iezabel sicut stercus super faciem terrae in agro Iezrahel, ita ut non dicatur: "Haeccine est illa Iezabel" ".

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead:
   2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
   3 Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
   4 ¶ So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.
   5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.
   6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.
   7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
   8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:
   9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:
   10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
   11 ¶ Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
   12 And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.
   13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
   14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
   15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
   16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
   17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?
   18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
   19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
   20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
   21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
   22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
   23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
   24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
   25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
   26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.
   27 ¶ But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
   28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
   29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
   30 ¶ And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
   31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
   32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
   33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.
   34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.
   35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
   36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the 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; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.