The Antiquities of the Jews, 9.118

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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118and when Joram met him in the field of Naboth, he asked him if all things were well in the camp; but Jehu reproached him bitterly, and ventured to call his mother a witch and a harlot. Upon this the king, fearing what he intended, and suspecting he had no good meaning, turned his chariot about as soon as he could, and said to Ahaziah, “We are fought against by deceit and treachery.” But Jehu drew his bow, and smote him, the arrow going through his heart:

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