¹⁷ When the lookout^(A) standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, he called out, “I see some troops coming.”

“Get a horseman,” Joram ordered. “Send him to meet them and ask, ‘Do you come in peace?^(B)’”

⁸ From watchtower to fortified city,^(A) he defeated the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory.