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NOW Joram, the king of Israel, after the death of Benhadad, hoped
that he might now take Ramoth, a city of Gilead, from the Syrians. Accordingly
he made an expedition against it, with a great army; but as he was besieging
it, an arrow was shot at him by one of the Syrians, but the wound was not
mortal. So he returned to have his wound healed in Jezreel, but left his
whole army in Ramorb, and Jehu, the son of Nimshi, for their general; for
he had already taken the city by force; and he proposed, after he was healed,:
to make war with the Syrians; but Elisha the prophet sent one of his disciples
to Ramoth, and gave him holy oil to anoint Jehu, and to tell him that God
had chosen him to be their king. He also sent him to say other things to
him, and bid him to take his journey as if he fled, that when he came away
he might escape the knowledge of all men. So when he was come to the city,
he found Jehu sitting in the midst of the captains of the army, as Elisha
had foretold he should find him. So he came up to him, and said that he
desired to speak with him about certain matters; and when he was arisen,
and had followed him into an inward chamber, the young man took the oil,
and poured it on his head, and said that God ordained him to be king, in
order to his destroying the house of Ahab, and that he might revenge the
blood of the prophets that were unjustly slain by Jezebel, that so their
house might utterly perish, as those of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and
of Baasha, had perished for their wickedness, and no seed might remain
of Ahab's family. So when he had said this, he went away hastily out of
the chamber, and endeavored not to be seen by any of the army.
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