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Jehu (c. 842-815 BC)

King of Israel. He led a successful rebellion against the family of Ahab and was responsible for the death of Jezebel.



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Then Jehu went in and sat down to dinner; and presently he said, Go and bury this cursed woman, for she is a King's daughter.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Our Jehu had carelessly driven over a heap of gravel and fairly capsized the coach, with the wheels in the air and our heels where our heads should have been.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
The Queen was abroad to-day in order to hunt, but finding it disposed to rain she kept in her coach; she hunts in a chaise with one horse, which she drives herself, and drives furiously, like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter, like Nimrod.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
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