He said to his father, &#8220;My head! My head!&#8221; His father<n id="1" /> told a servant, &#8220;Carry him to his mother.&#8221;

Samaria&#8217;s food supply ran out.<n id="1" /> They laid siege to it so long that<n id="2" /> a donkey&#8217;s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver<n id="3" /> and a quarter of a kab<n id="4" /> of dove&#8217;s droppings<n id="5" /> for five shekels of silver.<n id="6" />p>

Then he said, &#8220;May God judge me severely<n id="1" /> if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Jehu approached Jezreel. When Jezebel heard the news, she put on some eye liner,<n id="1" /> fixed up her hair, and leaned out the window.

When they received the letter, they seized the king&#8217;s sons and executed all seventy of them.<n id="1" /> They put their heads in baskets and sent them to him in Jezreel.

The messenger came and told Jehu,<n id="1" /> &#8220;They have brought the heads of the king&#8217;s sons.&#8221; Jehu<n id="2" /> said, &#8220;Stack them in two piles at the entrance of the city gate until morning.&#8221;

This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says about him:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The virgin daughter Zion<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">despises you, she makes fun of you;p> <p class="poetry">Daughter Jerusalemp> <p class="poetry">shakes her head after you.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah, the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.

<p class="bodytext">The king<n id="1" /> sent a captain and his fifty soldiers<n id="2" /> to retrieve Elijah.<n id="3" /> The captain<n id="4" /> went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill.<n id="5" /> He told him, &#8220;Prophet,<n id="6" /> the king says, &#8216;Come down!&#8217;&#8221;

Some members of the prophetic guild<n id="1" /> in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, &#8220;Do you know that today the <sc>Lordsc> is going to take your master from you?&#8221;<n id="2" /> He answered, &#8220;Yes, I know. Be quiet.&#8221;p>

Some members of the prophetic guild in Jericho approached Elisha and said, &#8220;Do you know that today the <sc>Lordsc> is going to take your master from you?&#8221; He answered, &#8220;Yes, I know. Be quiet.&#8221;p>

Take the container of olive oil, pour it over his head, and say, &#8216;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8220;I have designated<n id="1" /> you as king over Israel.&#8221;&#8217; Then open the door and run away quickly!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

So Jehu<n id="1" /> got up and went inside. Then the prophet<n id="2" /> poured the olive oil on his head and said to him, &#8220;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel says, &#8216;I have designated you as king over the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s people Israel.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh<n id="1" /> day of the twelfth month,<n id="2" /> King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned<n id="3" /> King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him<n id="4" /> from prison.

<p class="bodytext">Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders.<n id="1" /> The king<n id="2" /> sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived,<n id="3" /> Elisha<n id="4" /> said to the leaders,<n id="5" /> &#8220;Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?&#8221;<n id="6" /> Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.&#8221;<n id="7" />

<p class="bodytext">He wrote them a second letter, saying, &#8220;If you are really on my side and are willing to obey me,<n id="1" /> then take the heads of your master&#8217;s sons and come to me in Jezreel at this time tomorrow.&#8221;<n id="2" /> Now the king had seventy sons, and the prominent<n id="3" /> men of the city were raising them.