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On Jehu: Text and Manuscripts

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Jehu , a puero helisei in regem inunctus, cum joram et aaziam occidisset, jezabel precipitasset , .lxx. filios achab capitibus truncasset et .xlii. fratres aazie occidisset, benedicente sibi jonadab , prophetas et sacerdotes baal in samaria sub dolo interfecit et templo eius destructo pro eo latrinas fecit.
Jehu was annointed king by Elisha's boy. He killed Jehoram and Ahaziah, threw down Jezebel, beheaded the seventy sons of Ahab and killed forty-two brothers of Ahaziah. With Jehonadab's blessing, he treacherously killed the prophets and priests of Baal in Samaria, and he destroyed the temple to build latrines in its place.

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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 29 (C2)

Iehu a puero helisej in re
gem inunctus. cum ioram et aa
ziam occidisset iezabel precipitasset .lxx. filios achab
capitibus truncasset. et xl.
duos fratres aazie occidisset
benedicente sibi benedab . pro
phetas et sacerdotes baal in sa
maria sub dolo interfecit.
et templo eius destructo. pro
eo latrinas fecit.


Version 1

Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 363 (W)

Manuscript group AT1

Iehu a puero helysei in regem inunctus cum ioram et azariam occidisset
et iezabel precipitasset. et lxx. filios achab precipitasset capitibus
truncasset. et xl. duos fratres aazie occidisset benedicente sibi
ionadab prophetas et sacerdotes baal. in samaria subdolo inter
fecit. et templo eius destructo. pro eo latrinas fecit.

Auxerre, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 145 (Ax)

Manuscript group FR2

Iehu a puero helisei
inunctus in regem. cum
ioram et aaziam occidis
set. iezabel precipitasset .lxx. filios achab capi
tibus truncasset. et xlii. fratres aazie occidisset. benedi
cente sibi ionadab. prophetas et sacerdotes baal
in samaria sub dolo interfecit. et templo eius de us
structo. pro eo latrinas fecit.

Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.5 (C)

Manuscript group GB6

Iehu a puero helisei in regem inunctus.
cum ioram uel oziam occidisset. iezabel
precipitasset .lxx. filios achab capitibus
truncasset. et xlii. fratres ozie occidisset.
benedicente sibi ionadab prophetas et sa
cerdotes baal in samaria sub dolo in
terfecit. et templo eius destructo. pro eo latri
nas fecit.


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Citation recommendation

On Jehu: Text and Manuscripts. In: Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae: a research platform and edition, ed. by Andrea Worm, et al., Graz: 2026. https://gams.uni-graz.at/query:chigc.thirdlayer?params=$1|t-jehu3.

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