2 Kings 9:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then he sent out a second horseman, who came up to them and said, The king says, Is it peace? And Jehu said in answer, What have you to do with peace? come after me.

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  • 2 Kgs 9:11-18
    8 verses
    96%

    11 Then Jehu came out again to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, Is all well? why did this man, who is off his head, come to you? And he said to them, You have knowledge of the man and of his talk.

    12 And they said, That is not true; now give us his story. Then he said, This is what he said to me: The Lord says, I have made you king over Israel.

    13 Then straight away everyone took his robe and put it under him on the top of the steps, and, sounding the horn, they said, Jehu is king.

    14 So Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, made designs against Joram. (Now Joram and all the army of Israel were keeping watch on Ramoth-gilead because of Hazael, king of Aram:

    15 But King Joram had gone back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the Aramaeans had given him when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram.) And Jehu said, If this is your purpose, then let no one get away and go out of the town to give news of it in Jezreel.

    16 So Jehu got into his carriage and went to Jezreel, for Joram was ill in bed there; and Ahaziah, king of Judah, had come down to see Joram.

    17 And the watchman on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu and his band coming, and said, I see a band of people. And Joram said, Send out a horseman to them, and let him say, Is it peace?

    18 So a horseman went out to them and said, The king says, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? come after me. And the watchman gave them word, saying, The horseman went up to them, but has not come back.

  • 2 Kgs 9:20-25
    6 verses
    83%

    20 And the watchman gave them word, saying, He went up to them and has not come back again; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu, son of Nimshi, for he is driving violently.

    21 Then Joram said, Make ready. So they made his carriage ready; and Joram, king of Israel, with Ahaziah, king of Judah, went out in their carriages for the purpose of meeting Jehu; and they came face to face with him at the field of Naboth the Jezreelite.

    22 Now when Joram saw Jehu he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he said in answer, What peace is possible while all the land is full of the disgusting sins of your mother Jezebel, and her secret arts?

    23 Then Joram, turning his horses in flight, said to Ahaziah, Broken faith, O Ahaziah!

    24 Then Jehu took his bow in his hand, and with all his strength sent an arrow, wounding Joram between the arms; and the arrow came out at his heart, and he went down on his face in his carriage.

    25 Then Jehu said to Bidkar, his captain, Take him up, and put him in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for is not that day in your memory when you and I together on our horses were going after Ahab, his father, and the Lord put this fate on him, saying:

  • 2 Kgs 9:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4 So the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead.

    5 And when he came, he saw the captains of the army seated together; and he said, I have something to say to you, O captain. And Jehu said, To which of us? And he said, To you, O captain.

  • 2 Kgs 9:31-32
    2 verses
    73%

    31 And when Jehu was coming into the town, she said, Is all well, O Zimri, taker of your master's life?

    32 Then, looking up to the window, he said, Who is on my side, who? and two or three unsexed servants put out their heads.

  • 2 Kgs 9:27
    72%

    27 Now when Ahaziah, king of Judah, saw this, he went in flight by the way of the garden house. And Jehu came after him and said, Put him to death in the same way; and they gave him a death-wound in his carriage, on the slope up to Gur, by Ibleam; and he went in flight to Megiddo, where death came to him.

  • 2 Chr 19:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 And Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, went back to his house in Jerusalem in peace.

    2 And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.

  • 2 Kgs 9:2
    72%

    2 And when you get there, go in search of Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi; and go in and make him get up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.

  • 2 Kgs 10:2
    72%

    2 Straight away, when you get this letter, seeing that your master's sons are with you, and that you have carriages and horses and a walled town and arms;

  • 1 Kgs 22:32-33
    2 verses
    72%

    32 So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Truly, this is the king of Israel; and turning against him, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry.

    33 And when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him.

  • 2 Kgs 10:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12 Then he got up and came to Samaria. And he was at the meeting-place of the keepers of sheep, by the way,

    13 When he came across the brothers of Ahaziah, king of Judah, and said, Who are you? And they said, We are the brothers of Ahaziah, king of Judah; we are going down to see the children of the king and of the queen.

  • 2 Chr 18:32
    72%

    32 Now when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him.

  • 2 Chr 35:21
    71%

    21 But he sent representatives to him, saying, What have I to do with you, O king of Judah? I have not come against you this day, but against those with whom I am at war; and God has given me orders to go forward quickly: keep out of God's way, for he is with me, or he will send destruction on you.

  • 2 Kgs 10:4-6
    3 verses
    71%

    4 But they were full of fear, and said, The two kings have gone down before him: how may we keep our place?

    5 So the controller of the king's house, with the ruler of the town, and the responsible men, and those who had the care of Ahab's sons, sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants and will do all your orders; we will not make any man king; do whatever seems best to you.

    6 Then he sent them a second letter, saying, If you are on my side, and if you will do my orders, come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow, with the heads of your master's sons. Now the king's seventy sons were with the great men of the town, who had the care of them.

  • 1 Kgs 22:4
    70%

    4 And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead to make war? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are: my people as your people, my horses as your horses.

  • 2 Kgs 3:7
    70%

    7 And he sent to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has got free from my authority: will you go with me to make war on Moab? And he said, I will go with you: I am as you are, my people as your people, and my horses as your horses.

  • 1 Kgs 20:9
    70%

    9 So he said to the representatives of Ben-hadad, Say to my lord the king, All the orders you sent the first time I will do; but this thing I may not do. And the representatives went back with this answer.

  • 2 Kgs 1:5
    70%

    5 And the men he had sent came back to the king; and he said to them, Why have you come back?

  • 1 Kgs 19:17
    70%

    17 And it will come about that the man who gets away safe from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will put to death; and whoever gets away safe from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will put to death.

  • 2 Sam 11:19
    69%

    19 And he gave orders to the man who took the news, saying, After you have given the king all the news about the war,

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
    69%

    18 But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: As to the words which have come to your ears,

  • 2 Kgs 7:14
    68%

    14 So they took two horsemen; and the king sent them after the army of the Aramaeans, saying, Go and see.

  • 2 Kgs 1:9
    68%

    9 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men; and he went up to him where he was seated on the top of a hill, and said to him, O man of God, the king has said, Come down.

  • 1 Kgs 22:44
    68%

    44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 18:17
    68%

    17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say that he would not be a prophet of good to me, but of evil?

  • 1 Kgs 22:28
    68%

    28 And Micaiah said, If you come back at all in peace, the Lord has not sent his word by me.

  • 2 Kgs 5:19
    68%

    19 And he said to him, Go in peace. And he went from him some distance.

  • 1 Kgs 22:18
    68%

    18 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say that he would not be a prophet of good but of evil?

  • 2 Kgs 10:25
    68%

    25 Then when the burned offering was ended, straight away Jehu said to the armed men and the captains, Go in and put them to death; let not one come out. So they put them to the sword; and, pulling the images to the earth, they went into the holy place of the house of Baal.

  • 2 Chr 34:26
    68%

    26 But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: Because you have given ear to my words,

  • 2 Sam 15:9
    68%

    9 And the king said to him, Go in peace. So he got up and went to Hebron.

  • 2 Chr 18:27
    68%

    27 And Micaiah said, If you come back at all in peace, the Lord has not sent his word by me.