<p class="poetry">Has the <sc>Lordsc> struck down Israel like he did their oppressors?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Has Israel been killed like their enemies?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies,<n id="1" /> he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon so that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">If a homicide victim<n id="1" /> should be found lying in a field in the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you,<n id="2" /> and no one knows who killed<n id="3" /> him,

<p class="bodytext">When King Ahaziah of Judah saw what happened, he took off<n id="1" /> up the road to Beth Haggan. Jehu chased him and ordered, &#8220;Shoot him too.&#8221; They shot him while he was driving his chariot up the ascent of Gur near Ibleam.<n id="2" /> He fled to Megiddo<n id="3" /> and died there.

His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him.<n id="1" /> He was buried<n id="2" /> with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king.p>

Jehoahaz&#8217;s son Jehoash took back from<n id="1" /> Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from his father Jehoahaz in war. Joash defeated him three times and recovered the Israelite cities.p>

One day,<n id="1" /> as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch,<n id="2" /> his sons<n id="3" /> Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword.<n id="4" /> They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.p>

Joram<n id="1" /> returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians<n id="2" /> in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah<n id="3" /> son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded.<n id="4" />p>

One day,<n id="1" /> as he was worshiping<n id="2" /> in the temple of his god Nisroch,<n id="3" /> his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword.<n id="4" /> They ran away to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.p>