Bible Strands
2 Kings 9:12
“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.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The servants of Jehu demand an explanation after his prophetic visitor departs, and Jehu relays the prophet's direct report of the LORD's anointing him king over Israel.
The words — שֶׁקֶר (Sheker) translates as falsehood, and הַגֵּד־נָּא (haged-na) means tell now, marking the servants' insistence on truth and Jehu's unvarnished quotation of the oracle.
The thread — The verse advances the theme of divinely initiated royal succession through prophetic proclamation, recurring in the anointing narratives of 1 Samuel 10:1 and 1 Samuel 16:13 where the same mechanism transfers authority.
Why it lands — The text demands that the reader acknowledge the origin of the political shift as a spoken divine word, requiring attention to the speaker's authority rather than human strategy.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I have anointed thee king over Israel.