CHAPTER XI: THE REVOLT OF JEHU (B.C. 842) [11]106

TWO SONS OF JEHOSHAPHAT [10]99

Jehoram (b.c. 851-843)--Ahaziah (b.c. 843-842)--Jehoram ben-Jehoshaphat of Judah--Perplexing uncertainty of minute chronological details--The blight of the Jezebel-alliance--The husband of Athaliah--His apostasies--Revolt of Edom--Narrow escape of Jehoram--Revolt of Libnah--Jehoram's murder by his brethren--Philistine invasion--Incurable disease--Ahaziah ben-Jehoram--Joins his uncle (Jehoram ben-Ahab) in the campaign against Ramoth-Gilead--Visits him at Jezreel--Shot down by Jehu.

THE REVOLT OF JEHU (B.C. 842) [11]106

Misery of Jehoram's reign--Thwarted invasion of Moab--Aggression of Benhadad--At Ramoth-Gilead--The young prophet--The two kings absent from the camp--The dangerous commission--The assembled captains--Jehu secretly anointed--His accession enthusiastically welcomed by the army--His sudden enthronement--His swift resolution--The watchman at Jezreel--The two horsemen--The two kings--Their murder--Ferocity of Jehu--Elijah's prophecy--Jezebel--She is hurled down--Jehu drives over her body--The curse fulfilled.