¹⁷ Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and he saw the ^[a]company of Jehu as he came, and he said, “I see a ^[b]company.” And ^[c]Joram said, “Take a horseman and send him to meet them and have him ^[d]ask, ‘Is your intention peace?’”

¹⁹ Then he sent a second horseman, and he came to them and said, “This is what the king says: ‘Is your intention peace?’” And Jehu ^[a]answered, “^[b]How is peace any business of yours? Turn and follow me.”

²² When ^[a]Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is your intention peace, Jehu?” And he ^[b]answered, “What ‘peace,’ ^(A)so long as your mother Jezebel’s acts of prostitution and witchcraft are so many?”