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Jehu's drunk. Throwing up the sash he addressed the driver. 'What do you mean with your old gent at the window? what window? 'That window, sir. 'Go to! you're dreaming, man! there's no one here. 'Begging your pardon, sir, but there was someone there not a minute ago. 'Imagination, cabman, the slant of the light on the glass, or your eyesight's defective.
He acted under the conviction that he was God's instrument, and at each new deed of blood asserted his fulfilment of prophecy. The Rechabite sheikh was evidently a man of mark, and apparently one of the leaders of those who had not 'bowed the knee to Baal'; and Jehu's disclosure of his animating motive was meant to secure the alliance of that party through one of its chiefs.
Ah, well, papa has taught me that heaven will make amends for everything." They had now reached a little clearing, and Rita said that they were near Jehu's cabin, and that their final words had better be said before awakening the old man. "I must bathe my face, too," she added, "for he would not understand my tears," and went to a clear little spring but a few paces away. Graham also dismounted.
Ahaziah was only twenty-two, and was ruled by his mother Athaliah for the one year before, going to visit his uncle Jehoram, of Israel, he was slain with him in Jehu's massacre of the House of Ahab. Athaliah herself fulfilled the rest of the decree which she did not acknowledge.
Forcing his way to the house where Jehu and his brother officers were sitting in council, he called Jehu apart, led him to an innermost chamber of the house, took out a small horn of sacred oil, and poured it on Jehu's head, telling him that God had anointed him king to cut off the whole house of Ahab, and destroy idolatry.
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