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11 Jehu went back to his fellow officers, and one of them asked him, “What did that madman want? Is everything all right?”

“You know how a man like that babbles on,” Jehu replied.

12 “You’re hiding something,” they said. “Tell us.”

So Jehu told them, “He said to me, ‘This is what the Lord says: I have anointed you to be king over Israel.’”

13 Then they quickly spread out their cloaks on the bare steps and blew the ram’s horn, shouting, “Jehu is king!”

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11 When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, (A)“Is all well? Why did (B)this mad fellow come to you?” And he said to them, “You know the fellow and his talk.” 12 And they said, “That is not true; tell us now.” And he said, “Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord, I anoint you king over Israel.’” 13 Then in haste (C)every man of them took his garment and put it under him on the bare[a] steps, and they blew the trumpet and proclaimed, (D)“Jehu is king.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 9:13 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain