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2 Kings 9:24

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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.

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2 Kings 9:24 in other translations

And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and smote Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

2 Kings 9:24 · American Standard Version

2 Kings 9:24 in context

  1. 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?”
  2. 23Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, “This is treason, Ahaziah!”
  3. 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.
  4. 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:
  5. 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.”