Jehu (son of Nimshi)
예후 (님시의 아들)
Named at 1 Kings 19:16, where the LORD says, “Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel”. At 19:17 the LORD goes on, “He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.” 2 Kings 9:1–3 says that Elisha the prophet told one of the sons of the prophets to go to Ramoth Gilead, find “Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi”, and pour the vial of oil on his head; at 9:4–10 the young man, the young prophet, goes to Ramoth Gilead, pours the oil on Jehu’s head, and speaks words that begin, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel. You must strike your master Ahab’s house’”. The Korean Revised Version calls Jehu 님시의 손자, the grandson of Nimshi, at 9:2, 9:14 and 9:20, where WEB reads “Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi” (9:2, 9:14) and “Jehu the son of Nimshi” (9:20). At 9:11–13, when Jehu comes out to the servants of his lord, they blow the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.” 9:14–24 say that Jehu conspired against Joram and struck Joram between his arms; 9:27, that he followed after Ahaziah the king of Judah, who fled, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!”, and that Ahaziah fled to Megiddo, and died there; and 9:30–33, that when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel was thrown down. 10:1–11 say that after Jehu’s letters the king’s seventy sons were killed and their heads sent in baskets to him to Jezreel, and that Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel; 10:12–14, that the brothers of Ahaziah were killed at the pit of the shearing house, even forty-two men; and 10:15–17, that Jehu took Jehonadab the son of Rechab up into the chariot and struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria (the Korean Revised Version names Jehu there, where WEB reads “he”). 10:18–27 say that Jehu, doing deceptively, said, “I have a great sacrifice to Baal”, that all the worshipers of Baal came and filled the house of Baal, and that he said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” At 10:30 the LORD says to Jehu, “your descendants shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation”; 10:29 and 10:31 say that Jehu didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan; and 10:35–36, that Jehu slept with his fathers and they buried him in Samaria, and that the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
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- 1KI 19:15–18, engwebp
15The LORD said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
16Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.
17He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.
18Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
- 2CH 22:5–7, engwebp
5He also followed their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
6He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Azariah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
7Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram; for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off Ahab’s house.
- 2CH 22:8–9, engwebp
8When Jehu was executing judgment on Ahab’s house, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah serving Ahaziah, and killed them.
9He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.
- 2CH 25:17–19, engwebp
17Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come! Let’s look one another in the face.”
18Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as his wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.
19You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you and Judah with you?’”
- 2KI 9:1–3, engwebp
1Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.
2When you come there, find Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in and make him rise up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.
3Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘The LORD says, “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door, flee, and don’t wait.”
- 2KI 9:4–10, engwebp
4So the young man, the young prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead.
5When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting. Then he said, “I have a message for you, captain.” Jehu said, “To which one of us?” He said, “To you, O captain.”
6He arose, and went into the house. Then he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.
7You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
8For the whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.
9I will make Ahab’s house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.
10The dogs will eat Jezebel on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall be no one to bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.
- 2KI 9:11–13, engwebp
11When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this madman come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”
12They said, “That is a lie. Tell us now.” He said, “He said to me, ‘The LORD says, I have anointed you king over Israel.’”
13Then they hurried, and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.”
- 2KI 9:14–16, engwebp
14So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was defending Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;
15but 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.) Jehu said, “If this is your thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.”
16So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
- 2KI 9:17–20, engwebp
17Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”
18So one went on horseback to meet him, and said, “the king says, ‘Is it peace?’” Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!” The watchman said, “The messenger came to them, but he isn’t coming back.”
19Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them and said, “The king says, ‘Is it peace?’” Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!”
20The watchman said, “He came to them, and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”
- 2KI 9:21–26, engwebp
21Joram said, “Get ready!” They got his chariot ready. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot; and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him on Naboth the Jezreelite’s land.
22When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?”
23Joram turned his hands and fled, and said to Ahaziah, “This is treason, Ahaziah!”
24Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
25Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden on him:
26‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says the LORD; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to the LORD’s word.”
- 2KI 9:27–29, engwebp
27But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.
28His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in David’s city.
29In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
- 2KI 9:30–37, engwebp
30When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.
31As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”
32He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
33He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.
34When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”
35They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.
36Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, “This is the LORD’s word, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel,
37and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the surface of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they won’t say, “This is Jezebel.”’”
- 2KI 10:1–5, engwebp
1Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s sons, saying,
2“Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor,
3select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”
4But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?”
5He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes.”
- 2KI 10:6–11, engwebp
6Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men who are your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time.” Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
7When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.
8A messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” He said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”
9In the morning, he went out and stood, and said to all the people, “You are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these?
10Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of the LORD’s word, which the LORD spoke concerning Ahab’s house. For the LORD has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.”
11So Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him no one remaining.
- 2KI 10:12–14, engwebp
12He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on the way,
13Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, “Who are you?” They answered, “We are the brothers of Ahaziah. We are going down to greet the children of the king and the children of the queen.”
14He said, “Take them alive!” They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, even forty-two men. He didn’t leave any of them.
- 2KI 10:15–17, engwebp
15When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?” Jehonadab answered, “It is.” “If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
16He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD.” So they made him ride in his chariot.
17When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed them, according to the LORD’s word which he spoke to Elijah.
- 2KI 10:18–24, engwebp
18Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much.
19Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent, for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshipers of Baal.
20Jehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!” So they proclaimed it.
21Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.
22He said to him who kept the wardrobe, “Bring out robes for all the worshipers of Baal!” So he brought robes out to them.
23Jehu went with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that none of the servants of the LORD are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”
24So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.”
- 2KI 10:25–27, engwebp
25As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” So they struck them with the edge of the sword. The guard and the captains threw the bodies out, and went to the inner shrine of the house of Baal.
26They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal and burned them.
27They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.
- 2KI 10:28–31, engwebp
28Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
29However, Jehu didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin—the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.
30The LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done to Ahab’s house according to all that was in my heart, your descendants shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”
31But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
- 2KI 10:34–36, engwebp
34Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
35Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.
36The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
- 2KI 12:1–3, engwebp
1Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
- 2KI 13:1–9, engwebp
1In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria for seventeen years.
2He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from it.
3The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, continually.
4Jehoahaz begged the LORD, and the LORD listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.
5(The LORD gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their tents as before.
6Nevertheless they didn’t depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)
7For he didn’t leave to Jehoahaz of the people any more than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them and made them like the dust in threshing.
8Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
9Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria; and Joash his son reigned in his place.
- 2KI 14:8–14, engwebp
8Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let’s look one another in the face.”
9Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife.’ Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.
10You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?”
11But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
12Judah was defeated by Israel; and each man fled to his tent.
13Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh and came to Jerusalem, then broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
14He took all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in the LORD’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
- 2KI 15:8–12, engwebp
8In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.
9He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, as his fathers had done. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
10Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people and killed him, and reigned in his place.
11Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
12This was the LORD’s word which he spoke to Jehu, saying, “Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” So it came to pass.
- HOS 1:3–5, engwebp
3So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
4The LORD said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
5It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”
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Unresolved interpretation: Jehu “the son of Nimshi” at 1 Kings 19:16, and “the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi” at 2 Kings 9:2 and 9:14
- 1 Kings 19:15–16 has the LORD say, “Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel”.
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- 1KI 19:15–18, engwebp
15The LORD said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
16Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.
17He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.
18Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
- 1KI 19:15–18, engwebp
- At 2 Kings 9:1–2 Elisha the prophet tells one of the sons of the prophets to go to Ramoth Gilead, and says, “When you come there, find Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi”; 9:14 says, “So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram.” In both verses the Korean Revised Version reads 님시의 손자 여호사밧의 아들 예후, Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the grandson of Nimshi.
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- 2KI 9:1–3, engwebp
1Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.
2When you come there, find Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in and make him rise up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.
3Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘The LORD says, “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door, flee, and don’t wait.”
- 2KI 9:14–16, engwebp
14So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was defending Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;
15but 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.) Jehu said, “If this is your thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.”
16So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
- 2KI 9:1–3, engwebp
- 2 Kings 9:20 gives the watchman’s words, “The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.” The Korean Revised Version reads 님시의 손자 예후, Jehu the grandson of Nimshi.
Source evidence (1)
AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.
- 2KI 9:17–20, engwebp
17Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”
18So one went on horseback to meet him, and said, “the king says, ‘Is it peace?’” Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!” The watchman said, “The messenger came to them, but he isn’t coming back.”
19Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them and said, “The king says, ‘Is it peace?’” Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!”
20The watchman said, “He came to them, and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”
- 2KI 9:17–20, engwebp
1 Kings 19:16 names “Jehu the son of Nimshi” in the LORD’s word. 2 Kings 9:2 and 9:14 read 님시의 손자 여호사밧의 아들 예후 in the Korean Revised Version, Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the grandson of Nimshi, and “Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi” in WEB; 9:20 reads 님시의 손자 예후, Jehu the grandson of Nimshi, in the Korean Revised Version, and “Jehu the son of Nimshi” in WEB. The text does not say how “the son of Nimshi” of 1 Kings 19:16 and of WEB 9:20 stands with the father Jehoshaphat of 9:2 and 9:14, or with the Korean 님시의 손자. This collection records Nimshi as the father of Jehu, as 1 Kings 19:16 states it, and Jehoshaphat as the father of Jehu and Nimshi as the father of Jehoshaphat, as 9:2 and 9:14 state them (WEB makes Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi; the Korean makes Jehu the grandson of Nimshi), and decides none of this.
Unresolved interpretation: The place and circumstances of Ahaziah’s death
- 2 Chronicles 22:9 says Ahaziah hid in Samaria, was caught, brought to Jehu, and killed.
Source evidence (1)
AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.
- 2CH 22:8–9, engwebp
8When Jehu was executing judgment on Ahab’s house, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah serving Ahaziah, and killed them.
9He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.
- 2CH 22:8–9, engwebp
- 2 Kings 9:27–28 says Ahaziah was attacked at the ascent of Gur, fled to Megiddo, and died there.
Source evidence (1)
AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.
- 2KI 9:27–29, engwebp
27But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.
28His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in David’s city.
29In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
- 2KI 9:27–29, engwebp
The two routes are retained separately rather than combined into an invented itinerary.
All 19 relationships: AI-assisted, human review pending
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Nimshi — Father of — Jehu (son of Nimshi)
Evidence: 1 Kings 19:15–18
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Jehoshaphat (father of Jehu) — Father of — Jehu (son of Nimshi)
Evidence: 2 Kings 9:1–3, 2 Kings 9:14–16
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Jehu (son of Nimshi) — Father of — Jehoahaz (son of Jehu)
Evidence: 2 Kings 10:34–36, 2 Kings 13:1–9, 2 Kings 14:8–14
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Took part in (16) — The young prophet pours the oil on Jehu’s head and gives him the LORD’s word against Ahab’s house, Jehu comes out to the servants of his lord, and they blow the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king”, Jehu conspires against Joram and rides in a chariot to Jezreel, The watchman on the tower in Jezreel sees the company of Jehu, and the two sent on horseback do not come back, Jehu strikes Joram between his arms and tells Bidkar to throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth, Ahaziah king of Judah flees, is struck at the ascent of Gur, dies at Megiddo, and is buried in David’s city, Jezebel is thrown down, and those who go to bury her find no more of her than the skull, the feet and the palms of her hands, Jehu writes letters and sends them to Samaria, and he who was over the household, he who was over the city and the elders send to Jehu, The letter Jehu writes the second time, and the heads of the king’s seventy sons sent in baskets to Jezreel, Jehu meets with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah at the shearing house of the shepherds, and none of the forty-two men is left, Jehu takes Jehonadab the son of Rechab up into the chariot, and all who remained to Ahab in Samaria are destroyed, Jehu says he has a great sacrifice to Baal, and the worshipers of Baal fill the house of Baal, The guard and the captains strike the worshipers of Baal with the sword, and break down the house of Baal and make it a latrine, Jehu destroys Baal out of Israel but does not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, and the LORD speaks to Jehu, Jehu sleeps with his fathers and is buried in Samaria, and Jehoahaz his son reigns in his place, Ahaziah is brought to Jehu and killed by the men
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Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.
He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.
When you come there, find Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in and make him rise up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.
When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting. Then he said, “I have a message for you, captain.” Jehu said, “To which one of us?” He said, “To you, O captain.”
When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this madman come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”
Then they hurried, and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.”
So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was defending Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;
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.) Jehu said, “If this is your thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.”
So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”
So one went on horseback to meet him, and said, “the king says, ‘Is it peace?’” Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!” The watchman said, “The messenger came to them, but he isn’t coming back.”
Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them and said, “The king says, ‘Is it peace?’” Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!”
The watchman said, “He came to them, and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”
Joram said, “Get ready!” They got his chariot ready. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot; and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him on Naboth the Jezreelite’s land.
When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?”
Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden on him:
But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.
When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.
As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”
Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s sons, saying,
He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes.”
So Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him no one remaining.
Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much.
Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent, for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshipers of Baal.
Jehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!” So they proclaimed it.
Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.
Jehu went with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that none of the servants of the LORD are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”
So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.”
As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” So they struck them with the edge of the sword. The guard and the captains threw the bodies out, and went to the inner shrine of the house of Baal.
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
The LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done to Ahab’s house according to all that was in my heart, your descendants shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.
The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria for seventeen years.
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let’s look one another in the face.”
This was the LORD’s word which he spoke to Jehu, saying, “Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” So it came to pass.
Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram; for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off Ahab’s house.
When Jehu was executing judgment on Ahab’s house, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah serving Ahaziah, and killed them.
He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.
Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come! Let’s look one another in the face.”
The LORD said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
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Entry: Jehu (son of Nimshi) (person-jehu-nimshi)
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Current wording: Named at 1 Kings 19:16, where the LORD says, “Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel”. At 19:17 the LORD goes on, “He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.” 2 Kings 9:1–3 says that Elisha the prophet told one of the sons of the prophets to go to Ramoth Gilead, find “Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi”, and pour the vial of oil on his head; at 9:4–10 the young man, the young prophet, goes to Ramoth Gilead, pours the oil on Jehu’s head, and speaks words that begin, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel. You must strike your master Ahab’s house’”. The Korean Revised Version calls Jehu 님시의 손자, the grandson of Nimshi, at 9:2, 9:14 and 9:20, where WEB reads “Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi” (9:2, 9:14) and “Jehu the son of Nimshi” (9:20). At 9:11–13, when Jehu comes out to the servants of his lord, they blow the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.” 9:14–24 say that Jehu conspired against Joram and struck Joram between his arms; 9:27, that he followed after Ahaziah the king of Judah, who fled, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!”, and that Ahaziah fled to Megiddo, and died there; and 9:30–33, that when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel was thrown down. 10:1–11 say that after Jehu’s letters the king’s seventy sons were killed and their heads sent in baskets to him to Jezreel, and that Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel; 10:12–14, that the brothers of Ahaziah were killed at the pit of the shearing house, even forty-two men; and 10:15–17, that Jehu took Jehonadab the son of Rechab up into the chariot and struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria (the Korean Revised Version names Jehu there, where WEB reads “he”). 10:18–27 say that Jehu, doing deceptively, said, “I have a great sacrifice to Baal”, that all the worshipers of Baal came and filled the house of Baal, and that he said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” At 10:30 the LORD says to Jehu, “your descendants shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation”; 10:29 and 10:31 say that Jehu didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan; and 10:35–36, that Jehu slept with his fathers and they buried him in Samaria, and that the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
Cited evidence: 1KI 19:15–18, engwebp / 2CH 22:5–7, engwebp / 2CH 22:8–9, engwebp / 2CH 25:17–19, engwebp / 2KI 9:1–3, engwebp / 2KI 9:4–10, engwebp / 2KI 9:11–13, engwebp / 2KI 9:14–16, engwebp (and 17 more of 25)
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