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When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he ran away toward the garden house. Jehu went after him and said, "Shoot him in the war-wagon also." So they shot him at the hill of Gur, by Ibleam. But he got away to Megiddo and died there.

So they went to bury her. But all they found were her skull and feet and hands.

But they were filled with fear, and said, "See, the two kings could not stand in front of him. How can we stand?"

In the morning Jehu went out and stood, and said to all the people, "You are without guilt. See, I made plans against my owner and killed him. But who killed all these?

Now call all the men who speak for Baal, all his worshipers and all his religious leaders. Let no one be missing. For I have a big gift for Baal. Whoever is missing will not live." But Jehu did this to fool them, so that he might destroy the worshipers of Baal.

Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab. And he said to the worshipers of Baal, "Look and see that there are no servants of the Lord here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal."

But Jehu did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin. He kept the gold calves at Bethel and Dan.

But Jehu was not careful to walk in the Law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel sin.

But King Joram's daughter Jehosheba, Ahaziah's sister, took Joash the son of Ahaziah. She stole him away from the king's sons who were being killed, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. They hid him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.

But the high places were not taken away. The people still gave gifts and burned special perfume on the high places.

But by the twenty-third year of King Joash, the religious leaders had not put together the broken places of the house.

So King Joash called for Jehoiada the religious leader and the other religious leaders. He said to them, "Why do you not put together the broken places of the house? Do not take any more money from those you know, but give it for the work that is needed on the house."

But there were no silver cups, objects to put out the lights, pots, horns, or dishes of gold or silver made for the house of the Lord. None of these were made from the money brought into the house of the Lord.

But Joash king of Judah took all the holy things that had been set apart by his fathers, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah. He took his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the storehouses of the house of the Lord and the king's house. And he sent it to Hazael king of Syria. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.

But they did not turn away from the sins of the family of Jeroboam, which made Israel sin. They walked in those sins. And the object of the false goddess Asherah was left standing in Samaria.

And he did what was sinful in the eyes of the Lord. He did not turn away from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel sin. But he walked in those sins.

So the man of God was angry with him and said, "You should have hit it five or six times. Then you would have fought Syria until you had destroyed it. But now you will win the fight against Syria only three times."

But the Lord showed them kindness and loving-pity and turned to them because of His agreement with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He would not destroy them or put them away from Him until now.

Amaziah did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not like David his father. He did all that his father Joash had done.

But the high places were not taken away. The people still gave gifts and burned special perfume on the high places.