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But Jehu came out, and went to the place where he before sat with
the captains; and when they asked him, and desired him to tell them, wherefore
it was that this young man came to him, and added withal that he was mad,
he replied, —"You guess right, for the words he spake were the words of
a madman;" and when they were eager about the matter, and desired
he would tell them, he answered, that God had said he had chosen him to
be king over the multitude. When he had said this, every one of them put
off his garment, 1
and strewed it under him, and blew with trumpets, and gave notice that
Jehu was king. So when he had gotten the army together, he was preparing
to set out immediately against Joram, at the city Jezreel, in which city,
as we said before, he was healing of the wound which he had received in
the siege of Ramoth. It happened also that Ahaziah, king of Jerusalem,
was now come to Joram, for he was his sister's son, as we have said already,
to see how he did after his wound, and this upon account of their kindred;
but as Jehu was desirous to fall upon Joram, and those with him, on the
sudden, he desired that none of the soldiers might run away and tell to
Joram what had happened, for that this would be an evident demonstration
of their kindness to him, and would show that their real inclinations were
to make him king.
1 Spanheim here notes, that this putting off men's garments, and strewing them under a king, was an Eastern custom, which he had elsewhere explained.
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