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Bible Verses About Naboth: His murder avenged

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Verses on His murder avenged

  1. "Harness my chariot!" ordered Yoram. They got it ready. Then Yoram king of Isra'el and Achazyah king of Y'hudah, each in his chariot, went out to meet Yehu. They met him in the field of Navot the Yizre'eli.

  2. When Yoram saw Yehu he said, "Are you coming in peace, Yehu?" He answered, "Peace? With your mother Izevel continuing all her cult prostitution and witchcraft? What a question!"

  3. Yoram wheeled around and fled, shouting, "Treachery, Achazyah!"

  4. Yehu drew his bow with all his strength and struck Yoram between the shoulder-blades; the arrow went through his heart, and he collapsed in his chariot.

  5. "Pick him up," said Yehu to Bidkar his servant, "and throw him into the field of Navot the Yizre'eli; for remember how, when you and I were riding together after Ach'av his father, ADONAI pronounced this sentence against him:

  6. 'ADONAI says: "Yesterday I saw the blood of Navot and the blood of his sons." ADONAI also says: "I will pay you back in this field."' Therefore, pick him up; and throw him into the field, in keeping with what ADONAI said."

  7. But when Achazyah the king of Y'hudah saw this, he fled on the road past Beit-HaGan. Yehu pursued him and ordered, "Strike him too in his chariot!" [So they struck him] at the Gur ascent, near Yivle'am. He fled to Megiddo, but there he died.

  8. His servants carried him in a chariot to Yerushalayim and buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the City of David.

  9. It was in the eleventh year of Yoram the son of Ach'av that Achazyah had begun his rule over Y'hudah.

  10. When Yehu reached Yizre'el, and Izevel heard of it, she put on eye make-up, fixed her hair and looked out the window.

  11. As Yehu came through the city gate, she asked, "Are you here in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?"

  12. Looking up at the window he said, "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three officers looked out toward him.

  13. He said, "Throw her down!" So they threw her down. Some of her blood splashed onto the wall and the horses, and she was trampled underfoot.

  14. He went in, ate and drank, and then said, "Deal with this accursed woman - bury her, because she's a king's daughter."

  15. They went to bury her but found no more of her than her skull, feet and hands.

  16. So they came back and told him. He said, "This is what ADONAI said through his servant Eliyahu from Tishbe: 'In the field of Yizre'el the dogs will eat the flesh of Izevel;