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Then King Joram sent forth soldiers to seek Elisha and drag him to his court that he might be put to death, but Elisha foretold that the king's death would follow hard upon his own.

Then Jehoram repented of the beheading that he thought to do to Elisha, and swore to remove the idol at Beit-El. And the seige by the king of Damascus was lifted and food was brought into Samaria.

But Jehoram forgot his vow to Elisha and the golden calf remained in place at Beit-El. Then Elisha said to king Jehoram, "Behold, because you have sinned against God Most High, and have led the children of Israel to follow you in your sin, Bat-El has said the posterity of the House of Omri shall be brought to an end."

King Jehoram grew angry and ordered Elisha to depart from his presence forever.

Then Jehoram made alliance with Ahaziah, the son of his sister Athaliah. And Ahaziah was chieftain of the tribe of Judah. He gave battle at Ramoth-gilead to take back the city from Aram even as his father tried to do, but he was soundly defeated. Following the retreat of his army Jehoram was assassinated by General Jehu at Jezreel.

Jehu led a revolt and slew all the male descendants of Omri and Ahaziah in a great slaughter. Jezebel the widow of Ahab he also ordered to be killed by her own eunuch attendants. Jehu then entered the palace at Samaria and declared himself to be king.

Jehu caused the golden calf at Beit-El to be torn down, and the cult of priests that served the idol were put to death. Never again while the kingdom of Samaria endured would the city of Beit-El be disfigured by idolatrous images.

King Jehu reigned for twenty-eight years but during his reign he was ever assailed by the Arameans in all the lands held by the children of Israel east of the river Jordan. Therefore to gain an ally Jehu paid tribute to the Assyrians in the form of silver, gold, a golden bowl, a golden vase with pointed bottom, golden tumblers, golden buckets, tin, a staff for a king and many spears.

Jehoahaz the son of Jehu ascended to the throne in Samaria upon the death of his father and reigned for seventeen years. But King Jehoahaz permitted the people to erect a pillar to the goddess Asherah in Samaria.