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His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in
his tomb with his fathers in the city of David. 29 In the eleventh year
of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah. 30
When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her
eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out of the window. 31 And as Jehu
entered the gate, she said, “Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your
master?” 32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is
on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him. 33 He said,
“Throw her down.” So they threw her down; and some of her blood
spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her. 34
Then he went in and ate and drank; and he said, “See now to this cursed
woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.” 35 But when they
went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet
and the palms of her hands. 36 When they came back and told him, he
said, “This is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant
Elijah the Tishbite, ‘In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the
flesh of Jezebel; 37 and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung upon
the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can
say, This is Jezebel.’”
The Revised Standard Version, (New York: Oxford University Press, Inc.) 1973, 1977.