^9:12But they said, “You’re lying! Tell us what he said.” So he told them what he had said. He also related how he had said,²² “This is what the Lord says, ‘I have designated you as king over Israel.’ ”

Read in Logos

Footnotes

22 Heb “So he said, ‘Like this and like this he said to me, saying.’ ” The words “like this and like this” are probably not a direct quote of Jehu’s words to his colleagues. Rather this is the narrator’s way of avoiding repetition and indicating that Jehu repeated, or at least summarized, what the prophet had said to him.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And they said, “That is not true; tell us now.” And he said, “Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord, I anoint you king over Israel.’ ”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“That’s not true!” they said. “Tell us.”

Jehu said, “Here is what he told me: ‘This is what the Lord says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ ”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

But they replied, “That’s a lie! Tell us!”

So Jehu said, “He talked to me about this and that and said, ‘This is what the Lord says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ ”

NLTNew Living Translation

“You’re hiding something,” they said. “Tell us.”

So Jehu told them, “He said to me, ‘This is what the Lord says: I have anointed you to be king over Israel.’ ”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Then they said, “Liar. Please tell us.” He said, “Thus and so he said to me, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I hereby anoint you as king over Israel.” ’ ”

KJV 1900King 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.

Public Domain