Killing Kings

[In Judah]

... Yahweh afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels. In the course of time, at the end of the second year, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great pain. His people made no fire in his honor, as they had for his fathers. Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He passed away, to no one's regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 21:18-20 NIV

Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year... He too walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him in doing wrong. He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, as the house of Ahab had done, for after his father's death they became his advisers, to his undoing.

2 Chronicles 22:2-4 NIV

[In Israel]

... Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart and he slumped down in his chariot. Jehu said ... "pick him up and throw him on that plot, in accordance with the word of Yahweh."

2 Kings 9:24,25a,26b NIV

When Jehu came to Samaria, he killed all who were left there of Ahab's family; he destroyed them, according to the word of Yahweh spoken to Elijah.


2 Kings 10:17 NIV

[Yahweh, grant us peace that we may we never live through such horrid times nor with horrid leadership.]