1. The prophet Elisha summoned a man from the company of the prophets and said to him,
   "Tuck your cloak into your belt, take this flask of oil with you and go to Ramoth Gilead.
2. When you get there, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi.
   Go to him, get him away from his companions and take him into an inner room.
3. Then take the flask and pour the oil on his head and declare,
   'This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and run; don't delay!"
4. So the young man, the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead.
5. When he arrived, he found the army officers sitting together.
   "I have a message for you, commander," he said.
   "For which of us?" asked Jehu. "For you, commander," he replied.
6. Jehu got up and went into the house.
   Then the prophet poured the oil on Jehu's head and declared,
   "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'I anoint you king over the LORD'S people Israel.
7. You are to destroy the house of Ahab your master,
   and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the LORD'S servants shed by Jezebel.
8. The whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel--slave or free.
9. I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah.
10. As for Jezebel, dogs will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.'"
   Then he opened the door and ran.
11. When Jehu went out to his fellow officers, one of them asked him,
   "Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?"
   "You know the man and the sort of things he says," Jehu replied.
12. "That's not true!" they said.
   "Tell us." Jehu said, "Here is what he told me:
   'This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.'"
13. They hurried and took their cloaks and spread them under him on the bare steps.
   Then they blew the trumpet and shouted, "Jehu is king!"
14. So Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram.
   (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth Gilead against Hazael king of Aram,
15. but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans
   had inflicted on him in the battle with Hazael king of Aram.)
   Jehu said, "If this is the way you feel, don't let anyone slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel."
16. Then he got into his chariot and rode to Jezreel,
   because Joram was resting there and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see him.
17. When the lookout standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu's troops approaching,
   he called out, "I see some troops coming." "Get a horseman," Joram ordered.
   "Send him to meet them and ask, 'Do you come in peace?'"
18. The horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, "This is what the king says:
   'Do you come in peace?'" "What do you have to do with peace?" Jehu replied.
   "Fall in behind me." The lookout reported, "The messenger has reached them, but he isn't coming back."
19. So the king sent out a second horseman.
   When he came to them he said, "This is what the king says:
   'Do you come in peace?'" Jehu replied, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me."
20. The lookout reported, "He has reached them, but he isn't coming back either.
   The driving is like that of Jehu son of Nimshi--he drives like a madman."
21. "Hitch up my chariot," Joram ordered.
   And when it was hitched up, Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah rode out,
   each in his own chariot, to meet Jehu.
   They met him at the plot of ground that had belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite.
22. When Joram saw Jehu he asked, "Have you come in peace, Jehu?"
   "How can there be peace," Jehu replied,
   "as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?"
23. Joram turned about and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, "Treachery, Ahaziah!"
24. Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders.
   The arrow pierced his heart and he slumped down in his chariot.
25. Jehu said to Bidkar, his chariot officer,
   "Pick him up and throw him on the field that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite.
   Remember how you and I were riding together in chariots behind Ahab his father
   when the LORD made this prophecy about him:
26. 'Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons, declares the LORD,
   and I will surely make you pay for it on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.
   ' Now then, pick him up and throw him on that plot, in accordance with the word of the LORD."
27. When Ahaziah king of Judah saw what had happened,
   he fled up the road to Beth Haggan.
   Jehu chased him, shouting, "Kill him too!"
   They wounded him in his chariot on the way up to Gur near Ibleam,
   but he escaped to Megiddo and died there.
28. His servants took him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him with his fathers in his tomb in the City of David.
29. (In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king of Judah.)
30. Then Jehu went to Jezreel.
   When Jezebel heard about it, she painted her eyes, arranged her hair and looked out of a window.
31. As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, "Have you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?"
32. He looked up at the window and called out,
   "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three eunuchs looked down at him.
33. "Throw her down!" Jehu said.
   So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot.
34. Jehu went in and ate and drank. "Take care of that cursed woman," he said,
   "and bury her, for she was a king's daughter."
35. But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands.
36. They went back and told Jehu, who said,
   "This is the word of the LORD that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite:
   On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel's flesh.
37. Jezebel's body will be like refuse on the ground in the plot at Jezreel,
   so that no one will be able to say, 'This is Jezebel.'"





요람의 죽음과
예후의 이스라엘의 왕됨
그리고 이세벨의 죽음

아합이 죽고
그 아들중 두번째로 요람이 이스라엘의 왕이 되었으나
여전히 아버지의 범죄를 떠나지 않았고
그 어머니 이세벨의 범죄도 그치지 아니하였다.
하나님은 엘리사를 통하여
요람과 이세벨의 죽음을 예언하셨고
또한 이일들을 위하여
예후를 왕으로 세우실 것을 예언하신다.

예후는 비록 용감하고
하나님의 도우심으로 이스라엘의 왕이 되기는 하지만
그 역시 하나님 앞에서 신실한 왕은 아니었다.
앞으로의 이스라엘과
이전의 이스라엘 어느곳에도
하나님의 말씀이 살아있는 희망을 보기는 어렵다.

하나님이 이렇게 살아계심을 보이셔도
당신의 선지자들을 보내시고
또 말씀하고 계심에도 불구하고
이스라엘은 변하지 않으며
그 믿음과 심앙의 대상이 바뀌지 않는다.

이 세상이 물이없어 갈함이 아니요
여호와의 입에서 나오는 말씀이 없으므로 갈한다고 하신 하나님
그러나 그 말씀이 이들의 귀에 들리고 눈에 보여도
그들은 말씀에 갈하고 목이 메는 삶을 살 뿐이다.


지금 나에게도
하나님의 말씀은 그저 ....

다시 돌이켜 볼일이다.