Now Osee son of Ela conspired, and formed a plot against Phacee, the son of Romelia; and struck him; and slew him; and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Joatham the son of Ozias.
And Phacee the son of Romelia, his captain, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the tower of the king's house, near Argob, and near Arie: and with him fifty men of the sons of the Galaadites. And he slew him and reigned in his stead.
And Manahem the son of Gadi went up from Thersa. And he came into Samaria, and struck Sellum the son of Jabes in Samaria; and slew him; and reigned in his stead.
They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver, and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish.
There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up and taketh hold of thee: Thou hast hid thy face from us and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.
And I sought among them for a man that might set up a hedge and stand in the gap before me in favour of the land, that I might not destroy it: and I found none.
And when the letters came to them, they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezrahel.
And he said to them: Throw her down headlong. And they threw her down. And the wall was sprinkled with her blood: and the hoofs of the horses trod upon her.
But Jehu bent his bow with his hand, and shot Joram between the shoulders. And the arrow went out through his heart, and immediately he fell in his chariot.
Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.
From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.
And we are all become as one unclean: and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman. And we have all fallen as a leaf: and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.