New Revised Standard Version
Then hurriedly they all took their cloaks and spread them for him on the bare steps; and they blew the trumpet, and proclaimed, “Jehu is king.”

Contemporary English Version
They quickly grabbed their coats and spread them out on the steps where Jehu was standing. Someone blew a trumpet, and everyone shouted, "Jehu is king!"

New American Bible
At once each took his garment, spread it under Jehu on the bare steps, blew the horn, and cried out, “Jehu is king!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then they made haste, and taking every man his garment, laid it under his feet, after the manner of a judgment seat, and they sounded the trumpet, and said: Jehu is king.

Then they made haste, and taking every man his garment, laid it under his feet, after the manner of a judgment seat, and they sounded the trumpet, and said: Jehu is king.

Matthew 21:7,8 And they brought the ass and the colt and laid their garments upon them and made him sit thereon. . . .

Mark 11:7,8 And they brought the colt to Jesus. And they lay their garments on him: and he sat upon him. . . .

9:46,51) commonly built on an eminence, to which they ascended by a {flight of stairs}, (

Nehemiah 3:15 And the gate of the fountain, Sellum, the son of Cholhoza, built, lord of the street of Maspha: he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars, and the walls of the pool of Siloe unto the king's guard, and unto the steps that go down from the city of David.

) It is extremely probable, therefore, that Ramoth-gilead, being a frontier town of Israel and Syria, had a tower of this nature; and that Jehu was proclaimed king on the {top of the stairs} by which they ascended the hill on which the tower stood, i.e, in the area before the door of the tower, and consequently the most public place in the city.

blew with trumpets

2 Samuel 15:10 And Absalom sent spies into all the tribes of Israel, saying: As soon as you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, say ye: Absalom reigneth in Hebron.

1 Kings 1:34,39 And let Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, anoint him there king over Israel: and you shall sound the trumpet, and shall say: God save king Solomon. . . .

Psalm 47:5-7 God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet. . . .

Psalm 98:6 With long trumpets, and sound of cornet. Make a joyful noise before the Lord our king:

is king [heb] reigneth