Day 185 (2 Kings 9-11) - Year 8

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[upbeat music] Hey, Bible readers. I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble, and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. Did you know we have another daily podcast? It's called The Bible Kneecap, like kneeling in prayer because your girl loves a pun. Anyway, it's a short prayer of response to what we've read and recapped each day, and each episode is about 60 to 90 seconds long. To give you a taste of it, we've uploaded a free preview of The Bible Kneecap for you today, so be sure to look for that in your feed. Prophets are powerful people in ancient Israel. We've repeatedly seen how they're the ones who anoint kings, especially when a line of heirs is interrupted. There's no voting because God is the one who runs their nation state, and He speaks through the prophets. Today, Elisha sends a young prophet to anoint Jehu as Israel's next king and to give him the weighty task of fulfilling God's prophecy to wipe out all of Ahab's descendants, including King Joram, who is currently on the throne. Jehu sets out on his secret campaign and is even able to convince some of the king's watchmen to follow him instead of oppose him, either because they had no idea what he was doing or because they respected him enough to do what he said. King Joram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah both go out to meet Jehu and his crew, and they meet him in the most appropriate of spots: The land of Naboth. His vineyard is the whole reason this trouble started to begin with. Ahab wanted it, Jezebel killed for it, and