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Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and

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I'm your host for The Bible Recap. Prophets

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are powerful people in ancient Israel. We've repeatedly

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seen how they're the ones who anoint kings,

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especially when a line of errors is interrupted.

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There's no voting because God is the one

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who runs their nation-state, and He speaks through

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the prophets. Today Elisha

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sends a young prophet to anoint Jehu as

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Israel's next king, and to

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give him the weighty task of fulfilling God's

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prophecy to wipe out all of Ahab's descendants,

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including King Joram, who is currently on the throne. Jehu

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sets out on his secret campaign and is

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even able to convince some of the king's

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watchmen to follow him instead of oppose him,

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either because they had no idea what he was doing or

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because they respected him enough to do what he said. King

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Joram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah both

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go out to meet Jehu and his crew, and

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they meet him in the most appropriate

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of spots—the land of Naboth. His

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vineyard is the whole reason this trouble started

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to begin with. Ahab wanted it,

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Jezebel killed for it, and God pronounced the

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death penalty on their whole family, which Jehu

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is here to enact. He

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kills both kings, then he goes after

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Jezebel. She gets dressed

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up for the occasion. It seems like she

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wants to look lovely when she dies. Maybe

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this is where she gets the reputation of being a loose

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woman. After all, everybody knows you

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can't trust a woman wearing eyeshadow for crying out

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loud. She yells out the

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window and compares Jehu to Zimri, Israel's

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seven-day king who killed King Elah. She's

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basically saying Jehu might get away with

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what he's trying to do, but that

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his kingdom won't last long. And

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she's calling him a murderer. That's

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ironic. But Jehu yells out

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and asks, who's with me? And

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two or three eunuchs give him a head nod? Then he

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tells him to throw her out the window. And

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she dies in exactly the way Elijah prophesied

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she would. Then

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Jehu goes after the remaining descendants of Ahab. He

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says,