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The Second Book of Kings 8

8 And Elisha spoke to the woman, who he made her son live, saying, “Get up and go, you and your house, and sojourn where you will sojourn, for Yahweh has called for a famine, and also it will come to the land seven years.” 2 And the woman got up, and she did according to the word of the man of God. And she went, she and her house, and she sojourned in the land of the Philistines for seven years. 3 And it happened at the end of seven years, and the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. And she went out to cry out to the king on behalf of her house and on behalf of her land. 4 And the king was speaking to Gehazi, the young man of the man of God, saying, “Please report to me all the great things that Elisha has done.” 5 And it happened, he was reporting to the king that he made the dead live, and look—the woman who he made her son live was crying out to the king on behalf of her house and on behalf of her field. And Gehazi said, “My lord, the king, this is the woman, and this is her son, who Elisha made live.” 6 And the king inquired of the woman, and she reported to him. So the king gave to her one eunuch, saying, “Return everything that belongs to her and all the produce of the field from the day she left the land and up to now.”

7 And Elisha came to Damascus, and Ben Hadad the king of Aram was sick. And it was declared to him, saying, “The man of God has come to here.” 8 And the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand, and go to meet the man of God. And you will inquire of Yahweh through him, saying, ‘Will I live from this sickness?’ ” 9 And Hazael went to meet him and he took a gift in his hand, and every good thing of Damascus, a burden of 40 camels. And he came, and he stood to his face, and he said, “Your son, Ben Hadad the king of Aram, sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I live from this sickness?’ ” 10 And Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him, ‘You will surely live.’ But Yahweh has made me see that he will surely die.” 11 And he made his face stand, and he set until shaming, and the man of God wept. 12 And Hazael said, “Why is my lord weeping?” And he said, “Because I know that which you will do evil to the sons of Israel. Their fortresses you will send into the fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their infants you will dash to pieces, and their pregnant women you will split open.” 13 And Hazael said, “But what is your servant, the dog, that he will do this great thing?” And Elisha said, “Yahweh has made me see you—king over Aram.” 14 And he went from with Elisha, and he came to his lord. And he said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he said, “He said to me, ‘Surely you will live.’ ” 15 And it happened, from the following day, and he took the covering, and he dipped in the waters, and he spread it over his face, and he died. And Hazael became king in his place.

16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab, the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, became king. 17 He was a son of 32 years when he became king, and he was king eight years in Jerusalem. 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab became a wife to him. And he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh. 19 But Yahweh was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David, his servant, just as he had said to him—to give to him a lamp for his sons all the days.

20 In his days, Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah, and they made a king be king over them. 21 And Joram crossed over to Zair, and with all the chariots with him. And it happened, he himself got up at night, and he struck Edom, the one surrounding him and the captains of the chariots, but the people fled to their tents. 22 And Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah rebelled at that time. 23 And the rest of the words of Joram, and all that he did—are they not written on the scroll of the words of the days of the kings of Judah? 24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Ahaziah his son was king in his place.

25 In the year of the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, the king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, the king of Judah, became king. 26 Ahaziah was a son of 22 years when he became king, and he was king one year in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Athaliah the daughter of Omri the king of Israel. 27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, as the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab. 28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war with Hazael the king of Aram at Ramoth-Gilead, but the Arameans struck Joram. 29 And King Joram returned to heal himself in Jezreel from the wounds that Arameans had struck him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael the king of Aram. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, the king of Judah, went down to see Joram, the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was wounded.

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