Jehu: Regicide

A Novel

J. L. Wildeboer

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN:
  9781666741438
• Print ISBN:
  9781666741414
  9781666741421

Chariot commander Jehu is anointed king of Israel to strike down the House of Ahab. Drawn from the biblical account of 2 Kings 9 and 10, this fictional narrative recounts Jehu's rebellion from his early years as a charioteer under King Ahab through his anointing by a prophet under Elisha and his assault against the royal house of Israel, told in the voices of Jehu, Queen Jezebel, King Ahab, Elijah, Elisha, Jezebel's daughter Queen Athaliah and granddaughter Jehosheba, High Priest Jehoiada, King Ethbaal I of Tyre, and others. The union of Phoenician princess Jezebel and Ahab of Israel has combined the sea powers of Tyre and Sidon and the land power of Israel--a union that is being extended to Israel's sister kingdom of Judah with the union of Jezebel's daughter Athaliah with the king of Judah. The melding of Phoenicia, Israel, and Judah is reaching its tipping point as a harried prophet rushes into Jehu's army camp and anoints him king of Israel. Jezebel, her prophets of Baal, her son King Joram of Israel, her daughter Queen Athaliah of Judah, and Athaliah's daughter Jehosheba conspire together and against each other as Jehu's rebellion threatens Jezebel's realm.

Table of contents

• TITLE PAGE
• DISCLAIMER
• THE FLIGHT OF AN ARROW
• WISDOM FROM AN ARMY’S CAMPFIRE
• JEROBOAM’S REVOLT
• THE SUCCESSION OF ASSASSINS
• THE DISPOSITION OF KING PHELLES OF TYRE
• REFASHIONING SAMARIA
• POTTERS, PROPHETS and DYNASTIES
• AHAB PONDERS
• THE ROUT OF THE ARAMEANS
• JEHU’S MISSION TO ELIJAH
• THE BATTLE OF THE VALLEYS
• ELIJAH RUMINATES
• THE CAPTURE Of KING BEN-HADAD
• A PROPHETIC DISSENT
• AHAB THE INNOCENT
• HE DOES NOT PRIZE HIS HEAD
• ATHALIAH
• THE FICKLE PROPHETS
• THIS TOO CAME TO PASS
• MESSAGE TO JEZEBEL
• THE FESTIVAL FOR KING JEHOSHAPHAT
• A CONJURING OF PROPHETS
• THE PROPHET MICAIAH
• THE PROPHETS RIDDLE
• THE ARAMEAN ARROW
• AHAZIAH THE SOT
• JEHONADAB
• KING AHAZIAH AND ELIJAH
• GRISTLE AND BONE
• MIRACLES
• THE MOAB REVOLT
• BATTLING FOR THE POOR
• THE SACRIFICE TO CHEMOSH
• THE BESEIGED
• THE BESEIGERS RETREAT
• A DISH OF SCORPIONS
• JEHORAM ASCENDANT
• THE REDUCTION OF JEHORAM
• THE MADNESS BEGINS
• WAITING
• JEHU ANOINTED
• THE DASH TO JEZREEL
• MADNESS ON THE PLAINS OF JEZREEL
• THE KINGS RIDE OUT
• THE FALL OF JEZEBEL
• SAMARIA CAPITULATED
• THE HEADS OF SAMARIA AT THE GATES OF JEZREEL
• ENTOURAGE OF RELATIVES
• THE RACE TO SAMARIA
• FACTORING SAMARIA
• ALONG THE WALLS OF SAMARIA
• MY ROYAL FAMILY
• THE RENDITION OF JEHOSHEBA
• JEHOHADAB IMPRISONED
• THE FINAL FESTIVAL
• ATHALIAH’s PURGE
• MY KINGDOM, THE WILDERNESS
• THE DEPOSITION OF ATHALIAH
• JEHU’S CODA
• THE COURSE OF AN ARROW
• AND JEHU RESTED