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  COMMENTARY ON 2 KINGS 9-16
  by Chuck Smith
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Chapter nine.

Elisha is an extremely colorful character. And we are coming towards the
end of the career of Elisha, a prophet to the northern kingdom of
Israel. And Elisha commanded one of the young prophets to go to Jezreel
and there to take a cruse of oil and call Jehu, who was a captain of the
host of Israel, into another room secretly, and there anoint him with
the oil to be king over Israel, and then get out of there as fast as you
can. So this young man came to Jezreel where Jehu was sitting with a
bunch of the officers and all. And he said, "I have a message for you, O
Jehu." And Jehu said...or he said, "I have a message for you." And he
said, "Which one of us?" And he said, "You." And he said, "Come into the
other room." And so he went into the other room and he said, "Thus saith
the Lord, He has anointed you to be king over Israel." And of course, to
replace the house of Ahab and Jehoahaz who was a descendant of Ahab. And
so he poured this cruse of oil over Jehu and then he took off. When Jehu
came out with the rest of the officers, they said, "What in the world
was that guy all about? Man, he was wild looking. What did he tell you?"
And Jehu said, "He anointed me with oil and told me that I was going to
be the king over Israel." And so the guys all took their coats out and
they made this stairway. They had him stand at the top of the stairs and
they put began to blow the trumpets and say, "Long live Jehu king," you
know.

And so he said, "Now look, you guys, really serious about this, don\

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