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2 Kings 9:22

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When Joram saw Jehu he asked, ‘Do you come in peace, Jehu? ’ He answered, ‘What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and sorcery from your mother Jezebel? ’

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Because of the continual prostitution of the prostitute, the attractive mistress of sorcery, who treats nations and clans like merchandise by her prostitution and sorcery,


but have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel,  have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves like the house of Ahab  prostituted itself, and also have killed your brothers,  your father’s family, who were better than you,


the light of a lamp will never shine in you again; and the voice of a groom and bride will never be heard in you again. All this will happen because your merchants were the nobility of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.


For all the nations have drunk the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath. The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from her sensuality and excess.


Still, there was no one like Ahab, who devoted himself to do what was evil in the Lord’s sight, because his wife Jezebel incited him.


and took a hundred prophets and hid them, fifty men to a cave, and provided them with food and water when Jezebel  slaughtered the Lord’s prophets.


So a horseman went to meet Jehu and said, ‘This is what the king asks: “Do you come in peace? ” ’ Jehu replied, ‘What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me.’ The watchman reported, ‘The messenger reached them but hasn’t started back.’


Now summon all Israel to meet me at Mount Carmel,  along with the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah  who eat at Jezebel’s table.’


Samuel did what the Lord directed and went to Bethlehem.  When the elders of the town met him, they trembled  and asked, ‘Do  you come in peace? ’


a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.





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