STORY OF JEHU

JeHU


King Jehu, the tenth king of the separate kingdom of Israel, was raised to power by God's action, for the specific purpose of exterminating eviL kIMG aHABand his dynasty

.For this obedience, Jehu was rewarded with the longest dynasty in Israel's history...After Israel and Judah separated, every king of Israel except Jehu was committed to evil. By contrast, Judah had six kings who were wholeheartedly committed to the LORD, and two others who, like Jehu, did right some of the time and evil..


...Jehu left by chariot for Jezreel, where..King jehoram .was recuperating from a battle injury. When Jehu's chariot was seen by the lookout, the king assumed he must be bringing an urgent .message from the battle front. So he sent a rider to meet the chariot and bring him advance word of the charioteer's business. The rider questioned Jehu, but not wanting to give Jehoram any advantage, Jehu refused to allow him to return any message to the city. When the rider failed to return, Jehoram sent a second rider, with the same result


.By this time Jehu was close enough to the city that the lookout recognized him by his furious driving style. Jehoram, sensing a crisis and puzzled by the curious behavior of his riders...decided to meet Jehu himself. Providentially, King Ahaziah of neighboring Judah, also a descendent of King Ahab, was visiting Jehoram, allowing Jehu to kill two evil birds with one stone. He joined Jehoram, each king in his own chariot...

..When Jehoram asked Jehu the nature of the crisis, Jehu announced his intentions, drew his bow, and killed Jehoram with his first shot. Seeing this, Ahaziah fled. Jehu gave chase and mortally wounded Ahaziah, who managed to escape but soon died..

.Immediately Jehu set out on the LORD's assignment to exterminate....rvil of King Ahab dynasty   


.As he entered the city of Jezreel, Jehoram's mother, Ahab's widow Jezebel, shouted a taunt from a high window in her palace. Jehu called up, asking Jezebel's attendants if they would support his conspiracy. Immediately a few of them appeared at the window. Jehu ordered them to throw her out the window. She died on impact. Later, Jehu sent servants to bury her, but they found only a few of her bones, her body having been eaten by dogs in fulfillment of Elijah's prophecy.

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