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2 Kings 9:13

Jehu

11 When Jehu went out to the servants of his master, they asked, “Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?” “You know his kind and their babble,” he replied.

12 “That is a lie!” they said. “Tell us now!” So Jehu answered, “He talked to me about this and that, and he said, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’”

Quickly, each man took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. Then they blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”

14 Thus 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 he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the battle against Hazael their king.) So Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king, then do not let anyone escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”

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BSB
Quickly, each man took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. Then they blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”
KJV
Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
WEB
Then they hurried, and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.”
ASV
Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king.
DARBY
Then they hasted and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the very stairs, and blew with trumpets, and said, Jehu is king!
BLB
And they hurried, and each man took his garment and put [it] under him on the top of the steps, and they blew with the shofar and said, “Jehu is king.”
ÅB
Da skyndte de seg og tok hver sin kappe og la dem under ham på trappetrinene; og de støtte i basunen og ropte: Jehu er konge!
OTB
Da skyndte de seg, og hver mann tok sitt plagg og la det under ham på de nakne trinnene, og blåste i trompeten og proklamerte, “Jehu er konge!”
B1930
Da skyndte de sig og tok hver sin kappe og la dem under ham på trappetrinene; og de støtte i basunen og ropte: Jehu er konge!

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Cross references

  • 1 Kings 1:39

    Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tabernacle and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the ram’s horn, and all the people proclaimed, “Long live King Solomon!”

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  • Mark 11:7–8

    Then they led the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, and He sat on it.

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  • 1 Kings 1:34

    There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him king over Israel. You are to blow the ram’s horn and declare, ‘Long live King Solomon!’

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  • Psalms 47:5–7

    God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD with the sound of the horn.

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  • Matthew 21:7–8

    They brought the donkey and the colt and laid their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them.

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  • Psalms 98:6

    With trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn shout for joy before the LORD, the King.

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  • 2 Samuel 15:10

    Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron!’”

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