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27 Ahaziah (Judah’s king) witnessed all of this from a distance, and he rode away by the path to Beth-haggan. Jehu went after him.

Jehu (calling out): Send an arrow toward his chariot, and kill him too!

They shot him at Ibleam as he was driving up toward Gur. But he did not die there. He continued on to Megiddo, where he took his last breath.

28 Ahaziah’s servants transported him to Jerusalem in a chariot. They buried him with his fathers in the city of David.

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27 When Ahaziah king of Judah saw what had happened, he fled up the road to Beth Haggan.[a] Jehu chased him, shouting, “Kill him too!” They wounded him in his chariot on the way up to Gur near Ibleam,(A) but he escaped to Megiddo(B) and died there. 28 His servants took him by chariot(C) to Jerusalem and buried him with his ancestors in his tomb in the City of David.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 9:27 Or fled by way of the garden house

27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.

28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.

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