When you arrive there, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi and take him aside into an inner room.

they observed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel.

The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, by carrying out the terms of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant.

He went inside and had a meal. Then he said, “Dispose of this accursed woman’s corpse. Bury her, for after all, she was a king’s daughter.”

So Jehu eradicated Baal worship from Israel.

Naaman went and told his master what the girl from the land of Israel had said.

His servants conspired against him and murdered Joash at Beth-Millo, on the road that goes down to Silla.

Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the Lord their God; they followed Israel’s example.

He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines with human bones.

They also took the pots, shovels, trimming shears, pans, and all the bronze utensils used by the priests.

But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Jehu told his supporters, “If you really want me to be king, then don’t let anyone escape from the city to go and warn Jezreel.”

When King Ahaziah of Judah saw what happened, he took off up the road to Beth Haggan. Jehu chased him and ordered, “Shoot him too.” They shot him while he was driving his chariot up the ascent of Gur near Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo and died there.

The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. Hoshea had sent messengers to King So of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him.

Indeed, fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. So now, please have respect for my life.”

When they got up early the next morning, the sun was shining on the water. To the Moabites, who were some distance away, the water looked red like blood.

Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers; set aside each one when you have filled it.”

Now the king of Syria was at war with Israel. He consulted his advisers, who said, “Invade at such and such a place.”

During Jehoiakim’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him.

When he turned around and saw them, he called God’s judgment down on them. Two female bears came out of the woods and ripped forty-two of the boys to pieces.

Samaria’s food supply ran out. They laid siege to it so long that a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver and a quarter of a kab of dove’s droppings for five shekels of silver.