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13 So they hastened each one to take his cloak, and they spread them under him on the bare steps, blew on the trumpet, and said, “Jehu is king!”

14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Now Joram was keeping guard in Ramoth-Gilead, he and all of Israel, because of the threat[a] of Hazael king of Aram. 15 But Joram the king had returned to heal in Jezreel from the wound which the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Aram. Jehu said, “If this is what you want,[b] do not let him go out as a fugitive from the city to go to make it known in Jezreel.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 9:14 Literally “from the face/presence of”
  2. 2 Kings 9:15 Literally “If there is your soul”