Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Profits are powerful people in ancient Israel. We've repeatedly seen how they're the ones who

anoint kings, especially when a line of errors is interrupted. There's no voting because God is the one who runs their nation state

and he speaks through the prophets. Today, Elisha sends a young prophet to

anoint Jehu as Israel's next king and to give him the weighty task of fulfilling God's prophecy to wipe out all of

Ahab's descendants, including King Joram, who is currently on the throne.

Jehu sets out on his secret campaign and is even able to convince some of the King's watchman to follow him instead of oppose him,

either because they had no idea what he was doing or because they respected him enough to do what he said.

King Joram of Israel and King Ahazaya of Judah both go out to meet

Jehu and his crew. And they meet him in the most appropriate of spots, the land of

Naboth. His vineyard is the whole reason this trouble started to begin with.

Ahab wanted it, Jezebel killed for it, and God pronounced the death penalty on their whole family,

which Jehu is here to enact. He kills both kings, then he goes after Jezebel.

She gets dressed up for the occasion. It seems like she wants to look lovely when she dies.

Maybe this is where she gets the reputation of being a loose woman. After all, everybody knows you can't

trust a woman wearing eyeshadow for crying out loud. She yells out the window and compares

Jehu to Zimri. Israel's seven-day king who killed King Ela.

She's basically saying Jeu might get away with what he's trying to do, but that his kingdom

won't last long.

And she's calling him a murderer. That's ironic. But Jay who yells out and asks,

who's with me? And two or three eunuchs give him a head nod, then he tells him to throw her out the window.

And she dies in exactly the way Elijah prophesied she would.

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