When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this madman come to you?”
He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Kings 9:11 in context
2 Kings 9:8–14
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For the whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.
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I will make Ahab’s house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.
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The dogs will eat Jezebel on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall be no one to bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.
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When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this madman come to you?”
He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”
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They said, “That is a lie. Tell us now.”
He said, “He said to me, ‘The LORD says, I have anointed you king over Israel.’”
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Then they hurried, and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.”
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So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was defending Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;
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