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20 The watchman exclaimed, “The messenger has met them, but he isn’t returning either! It must be Jehu son of Nimshi, for he’s driving like a madman.”

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27 “The first man runs like Ahimaaz son of Zadok,” the watchman said.

“He is a good man and comes with good news,” the king replied.

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12 You marched across the land in anger
    and trampled the nations in your fury.

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I am raising up the Babylonians,[a]
    a cruel and violent people.
They will march across the world
    and conquer other lands.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:6 Or Chaldeans.

44 “But then news from the east and the north will alarm him, and he will set out in great anger to destroy and obliterate many.

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16 “I have created the blacksmith
    who fans the coals beneath the forge
and makes the weapons of destruction.
    And I have created the armies that destroy.

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10 Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave,[a] there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:10 Hebrew to Sheol.

16 Then Jehu said, “Now come with me, and see how devoted I am to the Lord.” So Jehonadab rode along with him.

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17 Anyone who escapes from Hazael will be killed by Jehu, and those who escape Jehu will be killed by Elisha!

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