1 O profeta Eliseu chamou um dos filhos dos profetas e disse-lhe: Põe o teu cinto e parte para Ramot de Galaad com este frasco de óleo.
2 Ali chegando, procurarás Jeú, filho de Josafá, filho de Namsi. Aproximar-te-ás dele, fá-lo-ás levantar-se do meio de seus irmãos e o conduzirás a um aposento retirado.
3 Tomarás então o frasco de óleo e lho derramarás na cabeça, dizendo: Isto diz o Senhor: Sagro-te rei de Israel. Depois abrirás a porta e fugirás sem demora.
4 O jovem servo do profeta partiu para Ramot de Galaad.
5 Quando lá chegou, os chefes do exército estavam sentados em reunião. E disse: General, tenho uma palavra a dizer-te. Jeú perguntou: A qual de nós? A ti, general, respondeu ele.
6 E Jeú, levantando-se, entrou na casa. O jovem derramou-lhe então o óleo na cabeça, dizendo: Isto diz o Senhor: Sagro-te rei de Israel, o povo do Senhor.
7 Ferirás a casa de Acab, teu soberano, e vingarás o sangue de meus servos, os profetas, e o sangue de todos os servos do Senhor, derramado por Jezabel.
8 Toda a casa de Acab perecerá: cortarei da casa de Acab em Israel todo varão, seja escravo ou livre.
9 Farei da casa de Acab o que fiz da de Jeroboão, filho de Nabat, e da de Baasa, filho de Aía.
10 E Jezabel será devorada pelos cães no solo de Jezrael: Não haverá ninguém que a sepulte. Dizendo isso, o jovem abriu a porta e fugiu.
11 Quando Jeú voltou para junto dos oficiais de seu soberano, estes perguntaram-lhe: Tudo vai bem? Por que te veio ver esse louco? Ele respondeu-lhes: Vós bem conheceis esse homem, e a sua maneira de falar.
12 Mentira!, exclamaram eles; conta-nos a verdade. Pois bem, disse ele, ele disse-me isto e isto, e acrescentou: Eis o que diz o Senhor: Sagro-te rei de Israel.
13 Levantaram-se então imediatamente e, tomando cada qual o seu manto, estenderam-no aos seus pés, em cima dos degraus, e tocaram a trombeta, gritando: Jeú é rei!
14 Jeú, filho de Josafá, filho de Namsi, conspirou contra Jorão, no tempo em que Jorão, com todo o Israel, defendia Ramot de Galaad contra Hazael, rei da Síria.
15 Jorão tinha voltado a Jezrael para se curar dos ferimentos recebidos dos sírios, quando combatia contra Hazael, rei da Síria. Se esta é a vossa vontade, disse Jeú, ninguém fuja da cidade para ir dar a notícia a Jezrael.
16 E Jeú subiu para o seu carro, partiu para Jezrael, onde Jorão, que estava de cama, recebia a visita de Ocozias, rei de Judá.
17 A sentinela que estava no alto da torre de Jezrael, viu aproximar-se a tropa de Jeú e anunciou: Vejo aproximar-se uma tropa. Jorão disse: Toma um carro e manda alguém ao seu encontro para perguntar se tudo vai bem.
18 Chegando o cavaleiro junto de Jeú, disse: O rei manda perguntar se tudo vai bem. Que te importa se tudo vai bem?, respondeu Jeú. Passa para trás de mim. A sentinela anunciou: O mensageiro chegou a ele, mas não volta.
19 O rei mandou um segundo cavaleiro, que se apresentou a Jeú, dizendo: O rei manda saber se tudo vai bem. Que te importa se tudo vai bem?, respondeu Jeú. Passa para trás de mim.
20 A sentinela anunciou: Também este chegou até eles, mas não volta. Pela maneira de conduzir o carro, parece que é Jeú, filho de Namsi: ele corre como um louco.
21 Preparai o meu carro, disse Jorão. Atrelaram os cavalos ao carro de Jorão, rei de Israel, e este partiu com Ocozias, rei de Judá, cada um em seu carro, para se encontrarem com Jeú, e o encontraram no campo de Nabot de Jezrael.
22 Ao vê-lo, Jorão perguntou-lhe. Tudo vai bem, Jeú? Como poderá ir tudo bem, enquanto durar a prostituição e a magia de Jezabel, tua mãe?
23 Então Jorão voltou as rédeas e fugiu, gritando a Ocozias: Traição, Ocozias!
24 Mas Jeú, retesando o arco, atingiu Jorão entre as espáduas, de modo que a flecha atravessou-lhe o coração e ele caiu morto no seu carro.
25 Jeú disse ao seu oficial Badacer: Toma-o e joga-o no campo de Nabot de Jezrael; pois deves estar lembrado do oráculo que pronunciou o Senhor contra ele, quando tu e eu, montados, seguíamos o seu pai Acab:
26 Tão certo como ontem vi correr o sangue de Nabot e o sangue de seus filhos - palavra do Senhor! - pagar-te-ei com a mesma moeda, neste mesmo campo - palavra do Senhor! Assim, pois, toma-o e joga-o neste campo, como o disse o Senhor.
27 Vendo isso, Ocozias, rei de Judá, fugiu para as banda de Betgã. Jeú lançou-se a persegui-lo, gritando: Também ele! Feriram-no em seu carro na subida de Gur, perto de Jeblaão. Ele fugiu para Magedo, e morreu ali.
28 Seus servos transportaram-no para Jerusalém em seu carro e sepultaram-no em seu túmulo com seus irmãos, na cidade de Davi.
29 Ocozias tornara-se rei de Judá no décimo primeiro ano de Jorão, filho de Acab.
30 Jeú fez a sua entrada em Jezrael. Jezabel, ao sabê-lo, pintou os olhos, adornou a cabeça e pôs-se a olhar, à janela.
31 Quando Jeú entrou pela porta, ela disse-lhe: Como vais, Zamri, assassino de seu amo?
32 Jeú levantou os olhos para a janela e disse: Quem está do meu lado? Quem? Dois ou três eunucos {inclinaram-se} e olharam para ele.
33 Atirai-a, daí abaixo, disse ele. Jogaram-na, e seu sangue salpicou as paredes e os cavalos; estes esmagaram-na aos pés.
34 Jeú entrou. Depois de ter comido e bebido, disse: Ide ver aquela mulher maldita, e sepultai-a, porque ela é de sangue real.
35 Foram para sepultá-la, mas só encontraram dela o crânio, os pés e as palmas das mãos.
36 Quando voltaram para dizê-lo a Jeú, este disse: Foi justamente este o oráculo que o Senhor pronunciou pela boca de seu servo Elias, o tesbita: no solo de Jesrael os cães devorarão a carne de Jezabel,
37 e seu cadáver estará sobre a terra como esterco derramado, de sorte que não se poderá dizer que era ela.
1 And Elisha the prophet sent for one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Make yourself ready for a journey, and take this bottle of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
2 And when you get there, go in search of Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi; and go in and make him get up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.
3 Then take the bottle and put the oil on his head, and say, The Lord says, I have put the holy oil on you to make you king over Israel. Then, opening the door, go in flight, without waiting.
4 So the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead.
5 And when he came, he saw the captains of the army seated together; and he said, I have something to say to you, O captain. And Jehu said, To which of us? And he said, To you, O captain.
6 And he got up and went into the house; then he put the holy oil on his head and said to him, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, I have made you king over the people of the Lord, over Israel.
7 You are to see that the family of Ahab your master is cut off, so that I may take from Jezebel payment for the blood of my servants the prophets, and for the blood of all the servants of the Lord.
8 For the family of Ahab will come to an end; every male of Ahab's family will be cut off, he who is shut up and he who goes free in Israel.
9 I will make the family of Ahab like that of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and Baasha, the son of Ahijah.
10 And Jezebel will become food for the dogs in the heritage of Jezreel, and there will be no one to put her body into the earth. Then, opening the door, he went in flight.
11 Then Jehu came out again to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, Is all well? why did this man, who is off his head, come to you? And he said to them, You have knowledge of the man and of his talk.
12 And they said, That is not true; now give us his story. Then he said, This is what he said to me: The Lord says, I have made you king over Israel.
13 Then straight away everyone took his robe and put it under him on the top of the steps, and, sounding the horn, they said, Jehu is king.
14 So Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, made designs against Joram. (Now Joram and all the army of Israel were keeping watch on Ramoth-gilead because of Hazael, king of Aram:
15 But King Joram had gone back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the Aramaeans had given him when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram.) And Jehu said, If this is your purpose, then let no one get away and go out of the town to give news of it in Jezreel.
16 So Jehu got into his carriage and went to Jezreel, for Joram was ill in bed there; and Ahaziah, king of Judah, had come down to see Joram.
17 And the watchman on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu and his band coming, and said, I see a band of people. And Joram said, Send out a horseman to them, and let him say, Is it peace?
18 So a horseman went out to them and said, The king says, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? come after me. And the watchman gave them word, saying, The horseman went up to them, but has not come back.
19 Then he sent out a second horseman, who came up to them and said, The king says, Is it peace? And Jehu said in answer, What have you to do with peace? come after me.
20 And the watchman gave them word, saying, He went up to them and has not come back again; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu, son of Nimshi, for he is driving violently.
21 Then Joram said, Make ready. So they made his carriage ready; and Joram, king of Israel, with Ahaziah, king of Judah, went out in their carriages for the purpose of meeting Jehu; and they came face to face with him at the field of Naboth the Jezreelite.
22 Now when Joram saw Jehu he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he said in answer, What peace is possible while all the land is full of the disgusting sins of your mother Jezebel, and her secret arts?
23 Then Joram, turning his horses in flight, said to Ahaziah, Broken faith, O Ahaziah!
24 Then Jehu took his bow in his hand, and with all his strength sent an arrow, wounding Joram between the arms; and the arrow came out at his heart, and he went down on his face in his carriage.
25 Then Jehu said to Bidkar, his captain, Take him up, and put him in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for is not that day in your memory when you and I together on our horses were going after Ahab, his father, and the Lord put this fate on him, saying:
26 I saw the blood of Naboth and of his sons yesterday; and I will give you full payment in this field, says the Lord? So now, take him and put him in this field, as the Lord said.
27 Now when Ahaziah, king of Judah, saw this, he went in flight by the way of the garden house. And Jehu came after him and said, Put him to death in the same way; and they gave him a death-wound in his carriage, on the slope up to Gur, by Ibleam; and he went in flight to Megiddo, where death came to him.
28 And his servants took him in a carriage to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David.
29 (In the eleventh year of the rule of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.)
30 And when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel had news of it; and, painting her eyes and dressing her hair with ornaments, she put her head out of the window.
31 And when Jehu was coming into the town, she said, Is all well, O Zimri, taker of your master's life?
32 Then, looking up to the window, he said, Who is on my side, who? and two or three unsexed servants put out their heads.
33 And he said, Take her and put her out of the window. So they sent her down with force, and her blood went in a shower on the wall and on the horses; and she was crushed under their feet.
34 And he came in, and took food and drink; then he said, Now see to this cursed woman, and put her body into the earth, for she is a king's daughter.
35 And they went out to put her body into the earth, but nothing of her was to be seen, only the bones of her head, and her feet, and parts of her hands.
36 So they came back and gave him word of it. And he said, This is what the Lord said by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the heritage of Jezreel the flesh of Jezebel will become food for dogs;
37 And the dead body of Jezebel will be like waste dropped on the face of the earth in the heritage of Jezreel; so that they will not be able to say, This is Jezebel.