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2 Kungaboken 9
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2 Kungaboken 9
Svenska Folkbibeln 2015
Jehu blir smord till Israels kung
9 Profeten Elisha kallade till sig en av profetlärjungarna och sade till honom: ”Spänn bältet om livet och ta med dig den här oljeflaskan och gå till Ramot i Gilead. 2 (A) När du har kommit dit, sök då upp Jehu[a], son till Joshafat, son till Nimshi. Gå in till honom och be honom resa sig upp, där han sitter bland sina bröder, och för in honom i den innersta kammaren. 3 Ta oljeflaskan och häll olja på hans huvud och säg: Så säger Herren: Jag har smort dig till kung[b] över Israel. Öppna sedan dörren och fly utan att dröja.”
4 Den unge mannen, profetens tjänare, gav sig i väg till Ramot i Gilead. 5 När han kom dit fick han se härens befälhavare sitta där. Han sade till honom: ”Överste, jag har ett ärende till dig.” Jehu frågade: ”Till vem av oss alla här?” Han svarade: ”Till dig, överste.” 6 (B) Då reste han sig och gick in i huset. Profetlärjungen hällde olja på hans huvud och sade till honom: ”Så säger Herren, Israels Gud: Jag har smort dig till kung över Herrens folk, över Israel. 7 (C) Du ska förgöra Ahabs, din herres, hus, för jag ska på Isebel hämnas mina tjänare profeternas blod, ja, alla Herrens tjänares blod. 8 (D) Hela Ahabs hus ska utrotas. Jag ska utrota alla av mankön i Ahabs hus, både små och stora i Israel. 9 (E) Jag ska göra med Ahabs hus, som jag gjorde med Jerobeams, Nebats sons, hus och som jag gjorde med Bashas, Ahias sons, hus. 10 Hundarna ska äta upp Isebel på Jisreels åkerfält, och ingen ska begrava henne.” Därefter öppnade han dörren och flydde.
11 (F) När Jehu kom tillbaka ut till sin herres tjänare, frågade man honom: ”Är allt bra? Varför kom den där galningen till dig?” Han svarade dem: ”Ni känner ju den mannen och hur han pratar.” 12 Men de sade: ”Du försöker lura oss. Säg som det är.” Då sade han: ”Så och så sade han till mig: Så säger Herren: Jag har smort dig till kung över Israel.” 13 (G) Då tog var och en av dem genast sin mantel och lade den under honom på trappan. De blåste i hornet och ropade: ”Jehu är kung!”
Kung Joram i Israel dödas
14 Jehu, son till Joshafat, son till Nimshi, anstiftade en sammansvärjning mot Joram. Joram hade legat med hela Israel vid Ramot i Gilead för att försvara det mot kung Hasael av Aram. 15 (H) Men kung Joram hade vänt tillbaka till Jisreel för att läka såren som arameerna hade gett honom under hans strid mot kung Hasael av Aram. Och Jehu sade: ”Om ni vill det, så låt inte någon slippa ut ur staden som sedan kan gå och berätta det i Jisreel.” 16 Jehu steg upp i sin vagn och for till Jisreel[c], eftersom Joram låg sjuk där och Juda kung Ahasja hade rest dit för att besöka Joram.
17 När väktaren som stod på tornet i Jisreel fick se Jehu komma med sitt följe, sade han: ”Jag ser ett följe.” Då befallde Joram att man skulle sända en ryttare att möta dem och fråga: Är det fred? 18 Ryttaren red mot Jehu och sade: ”Kungen frågar: Är allt bra?” Då svarade Jehu: ”Vad har du med det att göra? Vänd om och följ efter mig.” Väktaren rapporterade: ”Den du skickade i väg har hunnit fram till dem, men han kommer inte tillbaka.”
19 Då sände han en annan ryttare. När han hade hunnit fram till dem sade han: ”Kungen frågar: Är allt bra?” Jehu svarade: ”Vad har du med det att göra? Vänd om och följ efter mig.” 20 Väktaren meddelade på nytt: ”Han har hunnit fram till dem, men han kommer inte tillbaka. De kör som Jehu, Nimshis son, för han kör som en galning.” 21 (I) Då sade Joram: ”Spänn för.” Och man spände för hans vagn. Joram, Israels kung, och Ahasja, Juda kung, for ut i var sin vagn. De for för att möta Jehu, och de mötte honom på jisreeliten Nabots åkermark.
22 (J) När Joram fick se Jehu sade han: ”Är allt bra, Jehu?” Han svarade: ”Hur skulle det kunna vara det så länge som din mor Isebels avgudaväsen och hennes många trolldomskonster finns kvar?” 23 Då vände Joram vagnen och flydde, medan han ropade till Ahasja: ”Förräderi, Ahasja!” 24 Men Jehu hade tagit bågen i sin hand och sköt Joram i ryggen så att pilen gick ut genom hjärtat, och han sjönk ner i sin vagn. 25 (K) Sedan sade han till sin officer Bidkar: ”Ta honom och kasta ut honom på jisreeliten Nabots åker. Kom ihåg hur du och jag red bredvid varandra bakom hans far Ahab och hur Herren uttalade följande profetia om honom: 26 Sannerligen, i går såg jag Nabots och hans söners blod, säger Herren. Just på denna åker ska jag vedergälla dig, säger Herren. Så ta honom nu och kasta honom här på åkern enligt Herrens ord.”
Kung Ahasja i Juda dödas
27 (L) När kung Ahasja av Juda såg detta, flydde[d] han mot Bet-Haggan. Men Jehu satte efter honom och ropade. ”Honom också! Döda honom i vagnen!” Så blev det också i Gurbacken vid Jibleam. Men han flydde till Megiddo och dog där. 28 Sedan förde hans tjänare honom i vagnen till Jerusalem. Man begravde honom i hans grav hos hans fäder i Davids stad.
29 (M) Och Ahasja hade blivit kung över Juda i Jorams, Ahabs sons, elfte regeringsår.
Isebel dödas
30 Så kom Jehu till Jisreel. När Isebel fick höra det, sminkade hon sig kring ögonen och smyckade sitt huvud och såg ut genom fönstret. 31 (N) När Jehu kom in genom porten ropade hon: ”Är allt bra, du Simri[e] som mördat din herre?” 32 Han såg upp mot fönstret och sade: ”Vem står på min sida? Vem?” Då tittade två eller tre hovmän ner på honom. 33 Han sade: ”Kasta ner henne!” De kastade då ner henne, så att hennes blod stänkte på väggen och på hästarna. Och han körde över henne.
34 (O) Därefter gick Jehu in och åt och drack. Sedan sade han: ”Ta rätt på henne, den förbannade, och begrav henne. Hon är ju en kungadotter.” 35 Men när de gick för att begrava henne, fann de ingenting annat än huvudskålen, fötterna och händerna kvar av henne. 36 (P) De vände tillbaka och berättade det för Jehu. Då sade han: ”Detta är vad Herren talade genom sin tjänare tishbiten Elia, när han sade: På Jisreels åkerfält ska hundarna äta upp Isebels kött. 37 Isebels döda kropp ska ligga som gödsel på marken på Jisreels åkerfält, så att ingen ska kunna säga: Detta är Isebel.”
Footnotes
- 9:2 Jehu Betyder ”Det är Herren”. Han blev kung 841 f Kr. Senare samma år blev han tvungen att frambära tribut till Assyriens kung Shalmaneser III, enligt ”den svarta obelisken” som avbildar Jehu knäböjande framför kungen och räknar upp föremål av silver och guld som överlämnades.
- 9:3 smort dig till kung Uttryck för invigning, beskydd och den helige Ande (jfr David i 1 Sam 16:13).
- 9:16 for till Jisreel Staden med Isebels befästa vinterpalats, ca 7 mil väster om Ramot i Gilead.
- 9:27 flydde Bet-Haggan är nutida Jenin. Jibleam låg 1,5 mil söder om Jisreel.
- 9:31 Simri En kuppmakare som besegrats av Isebels svärfar 44 år tidigare (1 Kung 16:15f).
2 Kings 9
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2 Kings 9
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Jehu Anointed King of Israel
9 The prophet Elisha summoned a man from the company(A) of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak into your belt,(B) take this flask of olive oil(C) with you and go to Ramoth Gilead.(D) 2 When you get there, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go to him, get him away from his companions and take him into an inner room. 3 Then take the flask and pour the oil(E) on his head and declare, ‘This is what the Lord says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and run; don’t delay!”
4 So the young prophet went to Ramoth Gilead. 5 When he arrived, he found the army officers sitting together. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said.
“For which of us?” asked Jehu.
“For you, commander,” he replied.
6 Jehu got up and went into the house. Then the prophet poured the oil(F) on Jehu’s head and declared, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the Lord’s people Israel. 7 You are to destroy the house of Ahab your master, and I will avenge(G) the blood of my servants(H) the prophets and the blood of all the Lord’s servants shed by Jezebel.(I) 8 The whole house(J) of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male(K) in Israel—slave or free.[a] 9 I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam(L) son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha(M) son of Ahijah. 10 As for Jezebel, dogs(N) will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.’” Then he opened the door and ran.
11 When Jehu went out to his fellow officers, one of them asked him, “Is everything all right? Why did this maniac(O) come to you?”
“You know the man and the sort of things he says,” Jehu replied.
12 “That’s not true!” they said. “Tell us.”
Jehu said, “Here is what he told me: ‘This is what the Lord says: I anoint you king over Israel.’”
13 They quickly took their cloaks and spread(P) them under him on the bare steps. Then they blew the trumpet(Q) and shouted, “Jehu is king!”
Jehu Kills Joram and Ahaziah(R)
14 So Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth Gilead(S) against Hazael king of Aram, 15 but King Joram[b] had returned to Jezreel to recover(T) from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him in the battle with Hazael king of Aram.) Jehu said, “If you desire to make me king, don’t let anyone slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.” 16 Then he got into his chariot and rode to Jezreel, because Joram was resting there and Ahaziah(U) king of Judah had gone down to see him.
17 When the lookout(V) 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?(W)’”
18 The horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king says: ‘Do you come in peace?’”
“What do you have to do with peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.”
The lookout reported, “The messenger has reached them, but he isn’t coming back.”
19 So the king sent out a second horseman. When he came to them he said, “This is what the king says: ‘Do you come in peace?’”
Jehu replied, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me.”
20 The lookout reported, “He has reached them, but he isn’t coming back either. The driving is like(X) that of Jehu son of Nimshi—he drives like a maniac.”
21 “Hitch up my chariot,” Joram ordered. And when it was hitched up, Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah rode out, each in his own chariot, to meet Jehu. They met him at the plot of ground that had belonged to Naboth(Y) the Jezreelite. 22 When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?”
“How can there be peace,” Jehu replied, “as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel(Z) abound?”
23 Joram turned about and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery,(AA) Ahaziah!”
24 Then Jehu drew his bow(AB) and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart and he slumped down in his chariot. 25 Jehu said to Bidkar, his chariot officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the field that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite. Remember how you and I were riding together in chariots behind Ahab his father when the Lord spoke this prophecy(AC) against him: 26 ‘Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth(AD) and the blood of his sons, declares the Lord, and I will surely make you pay for it on this plot of ground, declares the Lord.’[c] Now then, pick him up and throw him on that plot, in accordance with the word of the Lord.”(AE)
27 When Ahaziah king of Judah saw what had happened, he fled up the road to Beth Haggan.[d] Jehu chased him, shouting, “Kill him too!” They wounded him in his chariot on the way up to Gur near Ibleam,(AF) but he escaped to Megiddo(AG) and died there. 28 His servants took him by chariot(AH) to Jerusalem and buried him with his ancestors in his tomb in the City of David. 29 (In the eleventh(AI) year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king of Judah.)
Jezebel Killed
30 Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup,(AJ) arranged her hair and looked out of a window. 31 As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri,(AK) you murderer of your master?”[e]
32 He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him. 33 “Throw her down!” Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot.(AL)
34 Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.”(AM) 35 But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands. 36 They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the Lord that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs(AN) will devour Jezebel’s flesh.[f](AO) 37 Jezebel’s body will be like dung(AP) on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.’”
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 9:8 Or Israel—every ruler or leader
- 2 Kings 9:15 Hebrew Jehoram, a variant of Joram; also in verses 17 and 21-24
- 2 Kings 9:26 See 1 Kings 21:19.
- 2 Kings 9:27 Or fled by way of the garden house
- 2 Kings 9:31 Or “Was there peace for Zimri, who murdered his master?”
- 2 Kings 9:36 See 1 Kings 21:23.
2 Kings 9
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2 Kings 9
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9 And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, Gird up your loins, take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
2 When you arrive, look there for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi; and go in and have him arise from among his brethren and lead him to an inner chamber.
3 Then take the cruse of oil and pour it on his head and say, Thus says the Lord: I have anointed you king over Israel. Then open the door and flee; do not tarry.
4 So the young man, the young prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.
5 And when he came, the captains of the army were sitting outside; and he said, I have a message for you, O captain. Jehu said, To which of us? And he said, To you, O captain.
6 And Jehu arose, and they went into the house. And the prophet poured the oil on Jehu’s head and said to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I have anointed you king over the people of the Lord, even over Israel.
7 You shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and of all the servants of the Lord [who have died] at the hands of Jezebel.
8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.
9 I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah.(A)
10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and none shall bury her. And he opened the door and fled. [Fulfilled in II Kings 9:33-37.]
11 When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, one said to him, Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you? And he said to them, You know that class of man and what he would say.
12 And they said, That is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus he spoke to me, saying, Thus says the Lord: I have anointed you king over Israel.
13 Then they hastily took every man his garment and put it [for a cushion] under Jehu on the top of the [outside] stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king!
14 So Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram [to dethrone and slay him]. Now Joram was holding Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, against Hazael king of Syria,
15 But King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Jehu said, If this is your mind, let no one make his escape from the city [Ramoth-gilead] to go and tell it in Jezreel [the capital].
16 So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
17 A watchman on the tower in Jezreel spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Send a horseman to meet them and have him ask, Do you come in peace?
18 So one on horseback went to meet him and said, Thus says the king: Is it peace? And Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? Rein in behind me. And the watchman reported, The messenger came to them, but he does not return.
19 Then Joram sent out a second man on horseback, who came to them and said, Thus says the king: Is it peace? Jehu replied, What have you to do with peace? Ride behind me.
20 And the watchman reported, He came to them, but does not return; also the driving is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.
21 Joram said, Make ready. When his chariot was made ready, Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot. Thus they went out to meet Jehu and met him in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite.
22 When Joram saw Jehu, he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, How can peace exist as long as the fornications of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
23 Then Joram reined about and fled, and he said to Ahaziah, Treachery, Ahaziah!
24 But Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his shoulders; and the arrow went out through his heart, and he sank down in his chariot.
25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take [Joram] up and cast him in the plot of Naboth the Jezreelite’s field; for remember how, when I and you rode together after Ahab his father, the Lord uttered this prophecy against him:
26 As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons, says the Lord, I will repay you on this plot of ground, says the Lord. Now therefore, take and cast Joram into the plot of ground [of Naboth], as the word of the Lord said.(B)
27 When Ahaziah king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed him and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the ascent to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And [Ahaziah] fled to Megiddo and died there.
28 His servants took him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulcher with his fathers in the City of David.
29 In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah’s reign over Judah began.
30 Now when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and beautified her head and looked out of [an upper] window.
31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, [Have you come in] peace, you Zimri, who slew his master?(C)
32 Jehu lifted up his face to the window and said, Who is on my side? Who? And two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
33 And he said, Throw her down! So they threw her down, and some of her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses, and he drove over her.
34 When he came in, he ate and drank, and said, See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.
35 They went to bury her, but they found nothing left of her except the skull, feet, and palms of her hands.
36 They came again and told Jehu. He said, This is the word of the Lord which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel.(D)
37 The corpse of Jezebel shall be like dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
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