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2 Kings 9:17

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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?’ ”

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2 Kings 9:17 in other translations

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. And Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

2 Kings 9:17 · American Standard Version

2 Kings 9:17 in context

  1. 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.”
  2. 16So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
  3. 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?’ ”
  4. 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.”
  5. 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!”