Discovery Box2 Kings 9:5 
Context9:5 When he arrived, the officers of the army were sitting there. 1 So he said, “I have a message for you, O officer.” 2 Jehu asked, “For which one of us?” 3 He replied, “For you, O officer.”
2 Kings 9:14
Context9:14 Then Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi conspired against Joram.
Now Joram had been in Ramoth Gilead with the whole Israelite army, 4 guarding against an invasion by King Hazael of Syria.
2 Kings 9:17-19
Context9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu’s troops approaching. 5 He said, “I see troops!” 6 Jehoram ordered, 7 “Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask, ‘Is everything all right?’” 8 9:18 So the horseman 9 went to meet him and said, “This is what the king says, ‘Is everything all right?’” 10 Jehu replied, “None of your business! 11 Follow me.” The watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but hasn’t started back.” 9:19 So he sent a second horseman out to them 12 and he said, “This is what the king says, ‘Is everything all right?’” 13 Jehu replied, “None of your business! Follow me.”
2 Kings 9:24
Context9:24 Jehu aimed his bow and shot an arrow right between Jehoram’s shoulders. 14 The arrow went through 15 his heart and he fell to his knees in his chariot.
2 Kings 9:33
Context9:33 He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down, and when she hit the ground, 16 her blood splattered against the wall and the horses, and Jehu drove his chariot over her. 17
2 Kings 10:1
Context10:1 Ahab had seventy sons living in Samaria. 18 So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the leading officials of Jezreel and to the guardians of Ahab’s dynasty. This is what the letters said, 19
2 Kings 10:5
Context10:5 So the palace supervisor, 20 the city commissioner, 21 the leaders, 22 and the guardians sent this message to Jehu, “We are your subjects! 23 Whatever you say, we will do. We will not make anyone king. Do what you consider proper.” 24
2 Kings 10:21
Context10:21 Jehu sent invitations throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one was absent. They arrived at the temple of Baal and filled it up from end to end. 25
2 Kings 10:24
Context10:24 They went inside to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside. He had told them, “If any of the men inside get away, you will pay with your lives!” 26
2 Kings 10:30-31
Context10:30 The Lord said to Jehu, “You have done well. You have accomplished my will and carried out my wishes with regard to Ahab’s dynasty. Therefore four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” 27 10:31 But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the Lord God of Israel. 28 He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit. 29
2 Kings 10:34
Context10:34 The rest of the events of Jehu’s reign, including all his accomplishments and successes, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 30
2 Kings 13:1
Context13:1 In the twenty-third year of the reign of Judah’s King Joash son of Ahaziah, Jehu’s son Jehoahaz became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria 31 for seventeen years.
1 tn Heb “and he arrived and look, the officers of the army were sitting.”
2 tn Heb “[there is] a word for me to you, O officer.”
3 tn Heb “To whom from all of us?”
4 tn Heb “he and all Israel.”
5 tn Heb “the quantity [of the men] of Jehu, when he approached.” Elsewhere שִׁפְעַה (shif’ah), “quantity,” is used of a quantity of camels (Isa 60:6) or horses (Ezek 26:10) and of an abundance of water (Job 22:11; 38:34).
6 tn The term שִׁפְעַת (shifat) appears to be a construct form of the noun, but no genitive follows.
7 tn Heb “said.”
8 tn Heb “Get a rider and send [him] to meet him and let him ask, ‘Is there peace?’”
9 tn Heb “the rider of the horse.”
10 tn Heb “Is there peace?”
11 tn Heb “What concerning you and concerning peace?” That is, “What concern is that to you?”
12 tn Heb “and he came to them.”
13 tc The MT has simply “peace,” omitting the prefixed interrogative particle. It is likely that the particle has been accidentally omitted; several ancient witnesses include it or assume its presence.
14 tn Heb “and Jehu filled his hand with the bow and he struck Jehoram between his shoulders.”
15 tn Heb “went out from.”
16 tn The words “when she hit the ground” are added for stylistic reasons.
17 tn Heb “and he trampled her.”
18 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
19 tn Heb “to the officers of Jezreel, the elders, and to the guardians of Ahab, saying.” It is not certain why the officials of Jezreel would be in Samaria. They may have fled there after they heard what happened to Joram and before Jehu entered the city. They would have had time to flee while Jehu was pursuing Ahaziah.
20 tn Heb “the one who was over the house.”
21 tn Heb “the one who was over the city.”
22 tn Or “elders.”
23 tn Heb “servants.”
24 tn Heb “Do what is good in your eyes.”
25 tn Heb “and the house of Baal was filled mouth to mouth.”
26 tn Heb “The man who escapes from the men whom I am bringing into your hands, [it will be] his life in place of his life.”
27 tn Heb “Because you have done well by doing what is proper in my eyes – according to all which was in my heart you have done to the house of Ahab – sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.” In the Hebrew text the Lord’s statement is one long sentence (with a parenthesis). The translation above divides it into shorter sentences for stylistic reasons.
sn Jehu ruled over Israel from approximately 841-814
28 tn Heb “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the
29 tn Heb “He did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to commit.”
30 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehu, and all which he did and all his strength, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”
31 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
