2 Kings 9:13 “Quickly, each man took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare s…”

2 Kings 9:13

Quickly, each man took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. Then they blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.

World English Bible

Then they hurried, and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.”

American Standard Version

Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then they made haste, and tooke euerie man his garment, and put it vnder him on the top of the staires, and blewe the trumpet, saying, Iehu is King.

Darby Translation

Then they hasted and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the very stairs, and blew with trumpets, and said, Jehu is king!

Young's Literal Translation

And they haste and take each his garment, and put [it] under him at the top of the stairs, and blow with a trumpet, and say, 'Reigned hath Jehu!'

Bible in Basic English

Then straight away everyone took his robe and put it under him on the top of the steps, and, sounding the horn, they said, Jehu is king.

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Cross references

“and took every”

Matthew 21:7 Matthew 21:8 Mark 11:7 Mark 11:8

Matthew 21:7 · BSB

They brought the donkey and the colt and laid their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them.

Matthew 21:8 · BSB

A massive crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

Mark 11:7 · BSB

Then they led the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, and He sat on it.

Mark 11:8 · BSB

Many in the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut from the fields.

“blew with trumpets”

1 Kings 1:34 1 Kings 1:39 2 Samuel 15:10 Psalm 47:5–7 Psalm 98:6

1 Kings 1:34 · BSB

There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him king over Israel. You are to blow the ram’s horn and declare, ‘Long live King Solomon!’

1 Kings 1:39 · BSB

Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tabernacle and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the ram’s horn, and all the people proclaimed, “Long live King Solomon!”

2 Samuel 15:10 · BSB

Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron!’”

Psalm 47:5–7 · BSB

God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD with the sound of the horn.

Psalm 98:6 · BSB

With trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn shout for joy before the LORD, the King.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12“That is a lie!” they said. “Tell us now!” So Jehu answered, “He talked to me about this and that, saying, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’”

14Thus Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,

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