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8 One day Elisha spoke to the Shunamit woman whose son he’d brought back to life, “Pack up and leave here, you and your household, and go and stay somewhere else, because Yahweh’s going to send a seven-year drought.” 2 So the woman got up, and she did what the man of God told her: She packed up her household and left to go and live in the Pelishtim’ region for seven years.
3 Then eventually after seven years, the woman returned from the Pelishtim’ region and she went to petition the king about her house and land. 4 When she arrived, the king had asked Geyhazi, the servant of the man of God, “Please tell me all the incredible things that Elisha has done.” 5 Then Geyhazi was telling the king that Elisha had made the dead live, and how the woman who he made her son live was petitioning the king on behalf of her house and her field. Then Geyhazi exclaimed, “My master, the king, this is the woman, and that’s her son, who Elisha made live!” 6 So the king questioned the woman and she told him her story. Then the king appointed a court official to attend to her case, saying, “Return everything that belongs to her plus the profit from her field from the day she left until now.”
7 Elisha went to Aram’s (Syria’s) capital Damesek (Damascus) at a time when King Ben-Hadad of Aram was very sick, and someone told him that the man of God was in town. 8 The king instructed an official named Hazael, “Take a gift with you and go and meet the man of God. Then inquire from Yahweh through him to find out if I’ll recover from this sickness.” 9 So Hazael went to meet Elisha and took presents with him loaded on forty camels—some of every good thing that he could find in Damesek. He went and stood in front of him and asked, “Your servant, King Ben-Hadad sent me to ask you if he’ll recover from his sickness?”
10 “Go and tell him that he’ll surely live,” Elisha answered. “But Yahweh has shown me that he’ll definitely die.” 11 Then Elisha stared at him until Hazael felt embarrassed, and then the man of God started to cry.
12 “Why are you crying, my master?” Hazael asked.
“Because I know what evil things you’ll do to the Israelis,” he said. “You’ll burn down their fortresses and kill their young men with the sword. You’ll smash their children’s heads on rocks, and rip open the bellies of their pregnant women.”
13 Hazael asked, “But how could your servant be in a position to do such a major thing when he’s only minor, like a dog in the palace?”
“Yahweh has let me see you as king over Aram (Syria).” Elisha replied.
14 Then he left Elisha and went back to his master who asked him, “What did Elisha tell you?”
And he answered, “He told me that you’ll certainly live.” 15 the very next day, Hazael dipped Ben-Hadad’s blanket in water and held it over his face until he died, and then Hazael started to reign in his place.
16 In the fifth year of the reign of Ahav’s son Yoram (Joram) as king of Yisrael (Israel), Yehoshafat’s (Jehoshaphat’s) son Yehoram (Jehoram) became king of Yehudah (Judah). 17 He was thirty-two when he became king and he reigned from Yerushalem (Jerusalem) for eight years. 18 He followed in the evil ways of the kings of the northern kingdom of Yisrael, just as Ahav’s descendants had done, because he’d married one of Ahav’s daughters. He did what Yahweh had said was evil, 19 but Yahweh wasn’t willing to destroy Yehudah, for the sake of his servant David—he’d promised David that his descendants would always rule Yehudah.
20 It was during King Yehoram’s time that Edom rebelled from Yehudah’s control, and they appointed their own king. 21 So Yoram took his army and chariots and crossed the valley towards Tsa’ir in Edom. They attacked at night, but as the Edomi army and chariots started to surround them, they had to retreat back to their tents. 22 So Edom has been out from under the control of Yehudah to this day. Then Livnah revolted at the same time.
23 Everything else that Yoram said and did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yehudah. 24 Then Yoram died and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David, and his son Ahazyah replaced him as king.
25 In the twelfth year of Ahav’s son Yoram’s (Joram’s) reign over Yisrael (Israel), Yehoram’s (Jehoram’s) son Ahazyah became the king of Yehudah (Judah). 26 Ahazyah was twenty-two when he became king, and he reigned from Yerushalem (Jerusalem) for one year. (His mother’s name was Atalyah (Athaliah), the daughter of King Omri of Yisrael.) 27 He followed Ahav’s customs and did what Yahweh had said was evil like Ahav’s descendants, because he was a son-in-law of a descendant of Ahav. 28 He joined Ahav’s son Yoram to battle against Aram’s (Syria’s) King Hazael at Ramot-Gilead, but the Arameans wounded Yoram. 29 King Yoram returned to Yizre’el (Jezreel) to recover from the wounds that Arameans had given him at Ramah when he’d fought with Aram’s King Hazael. Later, King Ahazyah of Yehudah (Yehoram’s son), went down to see (Ahav’s son) Yoram in Yizre’el because he was wounded.
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