After the death of Ahab, his son Joram became king and Jezebel was the powerful queen-mother. The chapter describes how Elisha continued with the task given to him by Elijah of removing the family of Ahab from Israel. Elisha sent a young prophet to anoint an Israelite army officer, named Jehu, as the next king. The only way open to Jehu to become king was by killing Joram and Jezebel. He did this and then went on to kill all the remaining members of Ahab' s family, this being described in 2 Kings 10. The reigning king of Judah, Ahaziah, whose mother was a daughter of Ahab as the two kingdoms had been linked by a marriage alliance during the reign of Ahab, was fatally wounded in Jehu's rebellion. 2 Kings 10 gives the information that Jehu was king over Israel for twenty-eight years and wiped out the worship of Baal in Israel, but the writer then adds that Jehu did not obey the law of the Lord with all his heart. He did not remove the Canaanite forms of the worship of Yahweh.