Add parallel Print Page Options

And he arose and came into the house, and he poured the oil on his head and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘(A)I have anointed you king over the people of Yahweh, even over Israel. And you shall strike the house of Ahab your master, (B)that I may avenge (C)the blood of My slaves the prophets, and the blood of all the slaves of Yahweh, (D)at the hand of Jezebel. For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and (E)I will cut off from Ahab (F)every [a]male person (G)both bond and free in Israel.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 9:8 Lit him who urinates against the wall, cf. 1 Sam 25:22, 34; 1 Kin 14:10, 21:21; 2 Kin 9:8