17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and he saw the [a]company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a [b]company.” And Joram said, “Take a horseman and send him to meet them and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’” 18 So a horseman went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu said, “(A)What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me.” And the watchman [c]reported, “The messenger came to them, but he did not return.” 19 Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu [d]answered, “What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 9:17 Lit multitude
  2. 2 Kings 9:17 Lit multitude
  3. 2 Kings 9:18 Lit told, saying
  4. 2 Kings 9:19 Lit said