열왕기하 9

1선지자 엘리사가 선지자의 생도 중 하나를 불러 이르되 너는 허리를 동이고 이 기름병을 손에 가지고 길르앗 라못으로 가라 2거기 이르거든 님시의 손자 여호사밧의 아들 예후를 찾아 들어가서 그 형제 중에서 일어나게 하고 데리고 골방으로 들어가서 3기름병을 가지고 그 머리에 부으며 이르기를 여호와의 말씀이 내가 네게 기름을 부어 이스라엘 왕을 삼노라 하셨느니라 하고 곧 문을 열고 도망하되 지체치 말지니라 4그 소년 곧 소년 선지자가 드디어 길르앗 라못으로 가니라 5저가 이르러 보니 군대 장관들이 앉았는지라 소년이 가로되 장관이여 내가 당신에게 할 말씀이 있나이다 예후가 가로되 우리 모든 사람 중에 뉘게 하려느냐 가로되 장관이여 당신에게니이다 6예후가 일어나 집으로 들어가니 소년이 그 머리에 기름을 부으며 이르되 이스라엘 하나님 여호와의 말씀이 내가 네게 기름을 부어 여호와의 백성 곧 이스라엘의 왕을 삼노니 7너는 네 주 아합의 집을 치라 내가 나의 종 곧 선지자들의 피와 여호와의 종들의 피를 이세벨에게 갚아주리라 8아합의 온 집이 멸망하리니 이스라엘 중에 매인 자나 놓인 자나 아합에게 속한 모든 남자는 내가 다 멸절하되 9아합의 집을 느밧의 아들 여로보암의 집과 같게 하며 또 아히야의 아들 바아사의 집과 같게 할지라 10이스르엘 지방에서 개들이 이세벨을 먹으리니 저를 장사할 사람이 없으리라 하셨느니라 하고 곧 문을 열고 도망하니라 11예후가 나와서 그 주의 신복들에게 이르니 한 사람이 묻되 평안이뇨 그 미친 자가 무슨 까닭으로 그대에게 왔더뇨 대답하되 그대들이 그 사람과 그 말한 것을 알리라 12무리가 가로되 당치 않은 말이라 그대는 우리에게 이르라 대답하되 저가 이리 이리 내게 말하여 이르기를 여호와의 말씀이 내가 네게 기름을 부어 이스라엘 왕을 삼는다 하셨다 하더라 13무리가 각각 자기의 옷을 급히 취하여 섬돌 위 곧 예후의 밑에 깔고 나팔을 불며 가로되 예후는 왕이라 하니라 14이에 님시의 손자 여호사밧의 아들 예후가 요람을 배반하였으니 곧 요람이 온 이스라엘로 더불어 아람 왕 하사엘을 인하여 길르앗 라못을 지키다가 15아람 왕 하사엘로 더불어 싸울 때에 아람 사람에게 상한 것을 치료하려 하여 이스르엘로 돌아왔던 때라 예후가 이르되 너희 뜻에 합당하거든 한 사람이라도 이 성에서 도망하여 이스르엘에 전하러 가지 못하게 하라 하니라 16예후가 병거를 타고 이스르엘로 가니 요람이 거기 누웠음이라 유다 왕 아하시야는 요람을 보러 내려왔더라 17이스르엘 망대에 파수꾼 하나가 섰더니 예후의 무리의 오는 것을 보고 가로되 내가 한 무리를 보나이다 요람이 가로되 한 사람을 말을 태워 보내어 맞아 평안이냐 묻게 하라 18한 사람이 말을 타고 가서 만나 가로되 왕의 말씀이 평안이냐 하시더이다 하매 예후가 가로되 평안이 네게 상관이 있느냐 내 뒤로 돌이키라 하니라 파수꾼이 고하여 가로되 사자가 저희에게 갔으나 돌아오지 아니하나이다 하는지라 19다시 한 사람을 말을 태워 보내었더니 저희에게 가서 가로되 왕의 말씀이 평안이냐 하시더이다 하매 예후가 가로되 평안이 네게 상관이 있느냐 내 뒤로 돌이키라 하니라 20파수꾼이 또 고하여 가로되 저도 저희에게까지 갔으나 돌아오지 아니하고 그 병거 모는 것이 님시의 손자 예후의 모는 것 같이 미치게 모나이다 21요람이 가로되 메우라 하매 그 병거를 메운지라 이스라엘 왕 요람과 유다 왕 아하시야가 각각 그 병거를 타고 가서 예후를 맞을새 이스르엘 사람 나봇의 토지에서 만나매 22요람이 예후를 보고 가로되 예후야 평안이냐 대답하되 네 어미 이세벨의 음행과 술수가 이렇게 많으니 어찌 평안이 있으랴 23요람이 곧 손을 돌이켜 도망하며 아하시야에게 이르되 아하시야여 반역이로다 24예후가 힘을 다하여 활을 당기어 요람의 두 팔 사이를 쏘니 살이 그 염통을 꿰뚫고 나오매 저가 병거 가운데 엎드러진지라 25예후가 그 장관 빗갈에게 이르되 그 시체를 취하여 이스르엘 사람 나봇의 밭에 던지라 네가 기억하려니와 이전에 너와 내가 함께 타고 그 아비 아합을 좇았을 때에 여호와께서 이 아래 같이 저의 일을 예언하셨느니라 26여호와께서 말씀하시기를 내가 어젯날에 나봇의 피와 그 아들들의 피를 분명히 보았노라 또 말씀하시기를 이 토지에서 네게 갚으리라 하셨으니 그런즉 여호와의 말씀대로 그 시체를 취하여 이 밭에 던질지니라 27유다 왕 아하시야가 이를 보고 동산 정자 길로 도망하니 예후가 쫓아가며 이르되 저도 병거 가운데서 죽이라 하매 이블르암 가까운 구르 비탈에서 치니 저가 므깃도까지 도망하여 거기서 죽은지라 28그 신복들이 저를 병거에 싣고 예루살렘에 이르러 다윗 성에서 그 열조와 함께 그 묘실에 장사하니라 29아합의 아들 요람의 십일년에 아하시야가 유다 왕이 되었었더라 30예후가 이스르엘에 이르니 이세벨이 듣고 눈을 그리고 머리를 꾸미고 창에서 바라보다가 31예후가 문에 들어오매 가로되 주인을 죽인 너 시므리여 평안하냐 32예후가 얼굴을 들어 창을 향하고 가로되 내 편이 될 자가 누구냐 누구냐 하니 두어 내시가 예후를 내다보는지라 33가로되 저를 내려던지라 하니 내려던지매 그 피가 담과 말에게 뛰더라 예후가 그 시체를 밟으니라 34예후가 들어가서 먹고 마시고 가로되 가서 이 저주 받은 계집을 찾아 장사하라 저는 왕의 딸이니라 하매 35가서 장사하려 한즉 그 두골과 발과 손바닥 외에는 찾지 못한지라 36돌아와서 고한대 예후가 가로되 이는 여호와께서 그 종 디셉 사람 엘리야로 말씀하신바라 이르시기를 이스르엘 토지에서 개들이 이세벨의 고기를 먹을지라 37그 시체가 이스르엘 토지에서 거름 같이 밭 면에 있으리니 이것이 이세벨이라고 가리켜 말하지 못하게 되리라 하셨느니라

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 arise up from among his brothers, and carry him to an inner room. 3Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door, flee, and don’t wait.” 4So the young man, even the young man the 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 of us all?” 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, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of Yahweh, even over Israel. 7You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel. 8For the whole house of Ahab shall 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 the house of Ahab 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.’” He opened the door, and fled. 11Then Jehu came out to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and what his talk was.” 12They said, “That is a lie. Tell us now.” He said, “He said to me, ‘Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel.’” 13Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.” 14So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria; 15but king Joram was 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. 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 there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, “Thus says the king, ‘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, “Thus says the king, ‘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.” 21Joram said, “Get ready!” They got his chariot ready. 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 in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. 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, “There 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, Yahweh laid this burden on him: 26‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.” 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 the city of David. 29In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah. 30When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired 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 drink; and 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, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. 36Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, “This is Yahweh’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 shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, “This is Jezebel.”’”

1Toen riep de profeet Elisa een van de zonen der profeten, en hij zeide tot hem: Gord uw lenden, en neem deze oliekruik in uw hand, en ga heen naar Ramoth in Gilead. 2Als gij daar zult gekomen zijn, zo zie, waar Jehu, de zoon van Josafat, den zoon van Nimsi, is; en ga in, en doe hem opstaan uit het midden zijner broederen, en breng hem in een binnenste kamer. 3En neem de oliekruik, en giet ze uit op zijn hoofd, en zeg: Zo zegt de HEERE: Ik heb u tot koning gezalfd over Israel. Doe daarna de deur open, en vlied, en vertoef niet. 4Zo ging de jongeling, die jongeling van den profeet, naar Ramoth in Gilead. 5En toen hij inkwam, ziet, daar zaten de hoofdmannen van het heir, en hij zeide: Ik heb een woord aan u, o hoofdman! En Jehu zeide: Tot wien van ons allen? En hij zeide: Tot u, o hoofdman! 6Toen stond hij op, en ging in huis; hij dan goot de olie op zijn hoofd, en hij zeide tot hem: Zo zegt de HEERE, de God Israels: Ik heb u gezalfd tot koning over het volk des HEEREN, over Israel. 7En gij zult het huis van Achab, uw heer, slaan, opdat Ik het bloed van Mijn knechten, de profeten, en het bloed van alle knechten des HEEREN, wreke van de hand van Izebel. 8En het ganse huis van Achab zal omkomen; en Ik zal van Achab uitroeien, wat mannelijk is, ook den beslotene en verlatene in Israel. 9Want Ik zal het huis van Achab maken als het huis van Jerobeam, den zoon van Nebat, en als het huis van Baesa, den zoon van Ahia. 10Ook zullen de honden Izebel eten op het stuk lands van Jizreel, en er zal niemand zijn, die haar begrave. Toen deed hij de deur open en vlood. 11En als Jehu uitging tot de knechten zijns heren, zeide men tot hem: Is het al wel? Waarom is deze onzinnige tot u gekomen? En hij zeide tot hen: Gij kent den man en zijn spraak. 12Maar zij zeiden: Het is leugen; geef het ons nu te kennen. En hij zeide: Zo en zo heeft hij tot mij gesproken, zeggende: Zo zegt de HEERE: Ik heb u gezalfd tot koning over Israel. 13Toen haastten zij zich, en een iegelijk nam zijn kleed, en legde het onder hem, op den hoogsten trap; en zij bliezen met de bazuin, en zeiden: Jehu is koning geworden! 14Alzo maakte Jehu, de zoon van Josafat, den zoon van Nimsi, een verbintenis tegen Joram. (Joram nu had Ramoth in Gilead bewaard, hij en gans Israel, uit oorzake van Hazael, den koning van Syrie; 15Maar de koning Joram was wedergekeerd, opdat hij zich te Jizreel helen liet van de slagen, die hem de Syriers geslagen hadden, als hij streed tegen Hazael, den koning van Syrie.) En Jehu zeide: Zo het ulieder wil is, laat niemand van de stad uittrekken, die ontkome, om dit in Jizreel te gaan verkondigen. 16Toen reed Jehu, en toog naar Jizreel; want Joram lag aldaar; en Ahazia, de koning van Juda, was afgekomen, om Joram te bezien. 17De wachter nu stond op den toren te Jizreel, en zag den hoop van Jehu, als hij aankwam, en zeide: Ik zie een hoop. Toen zeide Joram: Neem een ruiter, en zend dien hunlieden tegemoet, en dat hij zegge: Is het vrede? 18En de ruiter te paard toog heen hem tegemoet, en zeide: Zo zegt de koning: Is het vrede? En Jehu zeide: Wat hebt gij met den vrede te doen? Keer om naar achter mij. En de wachter gaf het te kennen, zeggende: De bode is tot hen gekomen, maar hij komt niet weder. 19Toen zond hij een anderen ruiter te paard; en als deze tot hen gekomen was, zeide hij: Zo zegt de koning: Is het vrede? En Jehu zeide: Wat hebt gij met den vrede te doen? Keer om achter mij. 20En de wachter gaf dit te kennen, zeggende: Hij is tot aan hen gekomen, maar hij komt niet weder; en het drijven is als het drijven van Jehu, den zoon van Nimsi, want hij drijft onzinniglijk. 21Toen zeide Joram: Span aan. En men spande zijn wagen aan. Zo toog Joram, de koning van Israel, uit, en Ahazia, de koning van Juda, een ieder op zijn wagen; en zij togen uit Jehu tegemoet, en vonden hem op het stuk lands van Naboth, den Jizreeliet. 22Het geschiedde nu, als Joram Jehu zag, dat hij zeide: Is het ook vrede, Jehu? Maar hij zeide: Wat vrede, zo lang als de hoererijen van uw moeder Izebel, en haar toverijen zo vele zijn? 23Toen keerde Joram zijn hand, en vlood, en zeide tot Ahazia: Het is bedrog, Ahazia! 24Maar Jehu spande den boog met volle kracht, en schoot Joram tussen zijn armen, dat de pijl door zijn hart uitging; en hij kromde zich in zijn wagen. 25Toen zeide Jehu tot Bidkar, zijn hoofdman: Neem, werp hem op dat stuk lands van Naboth, den Jizreeliet; want gedenk, als ik en gij nevens elkander achter zijn vader Achab reden, dat hem de HEERE dezen last oplegde, zeggende: 26Zo Ik gisteravond niet gezien heb het bloed van Naboth, en het bloed zijner zonen, zegt de HEERE, en Ik u dat niet vergelde op dit stuk lands, zegt de HEERE. Nu dan, neem, werp hem op dat stuk land, naar het woord des HEEREN. 27Als Ahazia, de koning van Juda, dat zag, zo vlood hij door den weg van het huis des hofs; doch Jehu vervolgde hem achterna, en zeide: Slaat hem ook op den wagen, aan den opgang naar Gur, die bij Jibleam is; en hij vlood naar Megiddo, en stierf aldaar. 28En zijn knechten voerden hem naar Jeruzalem, en zij begroeven hem in zijn graf, bij zijn vaderen in de stad Davids. 29In het elfde jaar nu van Joram, den zoon van Achab, was Ahazia koning geworden over Juda. 30En Jehu kwam te Jizreel. Als Izebel dat hoorde, zo blankette zij haar aangezicht, en versierde haar hoofd, en keek ten venster uit. 31Toen nu Jehu ter poorte inkwam, zeide zij: Is het wel, o Zimri, doodslager van zijn heer? 32En hij hief zijn aangezicht op naar het venster, en zeide: Wie is met mij? Wie? Toen zagen op hem twee, drie kamerlingen. 33En hij zeide: Stoot ze van boven neder. En zij stieten haar van boven neder, zodat van haar bloed aan den wand en aan de paarden gesprengd werd; en hij vertrad haar. 34Als hij nu ingekomen was, en gegeten en gedronken had, zeide hij: Ziet nu naar die vervloekte, en begraaf ze; want zij is eens konings dochter. 35En zij gingen heen om haar te begraven; doch zij vonden niet van haar, dan het bekkeneel, en de voeten, en de palmen harer handen. 36Toen kwamen zij weder, en gaven het hem te kennen, en hij zeide: Dit is het woord des HEEREN, dat Hij gesproken heeft door den dienst van Zijn knecht Elia, den Thisbiet, zeggende: Op het stuk lands van Jizreel zullen de honden het vlees van Izebel eten. 37En het dode lichaam van Izebel zal zijn gelijk mest op het veld, in het stuk lands van Jizreel, dat men niet zal kunnen zeggen: Dit is Izebel.