You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.”

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 against him:

Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they throw off restraint in my presence.

“Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.”

“‘Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a lament on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned this generation that is under his wrath.

It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white.