2 Kings 9: Jehu anointed king & executes Ahab’s family – Powerful Audio Bible Reading | Ambush, Betrayal, and Divine Judgment

Experience the intense events of 2 Kings 9 with this powerful audio recording. Follow the story of Jehu’s anointment as king and his mission to execute Ahab’s family, the ambush of King Joram, the betrayal of Jezebel, and the divine judgment that follows. Perfect for study, reflection, or meditation, immerse yourself in this gripping chapter and let the Scriptures come alive.

2 KINGS 9 (NIV)

1 The prophet Elisha summoned a man from the company of the prophets and said
to him, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take this flask of olive oil with you
and go to Ramoth Gilead.

2 When you get there, look for Jehu son of
Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go to him, get him away from his companions
and take him into an inner room.

3 Then take the flask and pour the oil on his
head and declare, ‘This is what the Lord says: I anoint you king over Israel.’
Then open the door and run; don’t delay!”

4 So the young prophet went to Ramoth Gilead.

5 When he arrived, he found the
army officers sitting together. “I have a message for you, commander,” he
said.
“For which of us?” asked Jehu.
“For you, commander,” he replied.

6 Jehu got up and went into the house. Then the prophet poured the oil on
Jehu’s head and declared, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I
anoint you king over the Lord’s people Israel.

7 You are to destroy the house
of Ahab your master, and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets
and the blood of all the Lord’s servants shed by Jezebel.

8 The whole house of
Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or
free.

9 I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat
and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah.

10 As for Jezebel, dogs will
devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.’” Then
he opened the door and ran.

11 When Jehu went out to his fellow officers, one of them asked him, “Is
everything all right? Why did this maniac come to you?”
“You know the man and the sort of things he says,” Jehu replied.

12 “That’s not true!” they said. “Tell us.”
Jehu said, “Here is what he told me: ‘This is what the Lord says: I anoint you
king over Israel.’”

13 They quickly took their cloaks and spread them under him on the bare steps.
Then they blew the trumpet and shouted, “Jehu is king!”

14 So Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram.
(Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth Gilead against Hazael king
of Aram,

15 but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds
the Arameans had inflicted on him in the battle with Hazael king of Aram.)
Jehu said, “If you desire to make me king, don’t let anyone slip out of the
city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”

16 Then he got into his chariot and
rode to Jezreel, because Joram was resting there and Ahaziah king of Judah had
gone down to see him.

17 When the lookout standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops
approaching, he called out, “I see some troops coming.”
“Get a horseman,” Joram ordered. “Send him to meet them and ask, ‘Do you come
in peace?’”

18 The horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king says:
‘Do you come in peace?’”
“What do you have to do with peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.”
The lookout reported, “The messenger has reached them, but he isn’t coming
back.”

19 So the king sent out a second horseman. When he came to them he said, “This
is what the king says: ‘Do you come in peace?’”
Jehu replied, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me.”

20 The lookout reported, “He has reached them, but he isn’t coming back
either. The driving is like that of Jehu son of Nimshi—he drives like a
maniac.”

21 “Hitch up my chariot,” Joram ordered. And when it was hitched up, Joram
king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah rode out, each in his own chariot, to
meet Jehu. They met him at the plot of ground that had belonged to Naboth the
Jezreelite.

22 When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?”
“How can there be peace,” Jehu replied, “as long as all the idolatry and
witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”

23 Joram turned about and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”

24 Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow
pierced his heart and he slumped down in his chariot.

25 Jehu said to Bidkar,
his chariot officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the field that belonged to
Naboth the Jezreelite. Remember how you and I were riding together in chariots
behind Ahab his father when the Lord spoke this prophecy against him:

26
‘Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons, declares the
Lord, and I will surely make you pay for it on this plot of ground, declares
the Lord.’ Now then, pick him up and throw him on that plot, in accordance
with the word of the Lord.”

27 When Ahaziah king of Judah saw what had happened, he fled up the road to
Beth Haggan. Jehu chased him, shouting, “Kill him too!” They wounded him in
his chariot on the way up to Gur near Ibleam, but he escaped to Megiddo and
died there.

28 His servants took him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him
with his ancestors in his tomb in the City of David.

29 (In the eleventh year
of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king of Judah.)

30 Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye
makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window.

31 As Jehu entered the
gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your
master?”

32 He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or
three eunuchs looked down at him.

33 “Throw her down!” Jehu said. So they
threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as
they trampled her underfoot.

34 Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said,
“and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.”

35 But when they went out to
bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands.

36 They
went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the Lord that he spoke
through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs
will devour Jezebel’s flesh.

37 Jezebel’s body will be like dung on the ground
in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is
Jezebel.’”