Second Kings Chapter 8
1 Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life saying, Arise and go, you and your household, and live wherever you can live. For the Lord has called for a famine. And it will also come on the land seven years.
2 The woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. And she went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines seven years.
3 At the end of seven years, the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines. And she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.
4 The king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God saying, Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.
5 As he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life cried out to the king for the house and for her land. And Gehazi said, my lord, O king, this is the woman and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
6 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain eunuch saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day when she left the land, even until now.
7 Elisha came to Damascus where King Benhadad of Syria was sick. They told him, The man of God has come here.
8 The king said to Hazael, Take a present and go to meet the man of God and ask of the Lord by him saying, Will I recover of this disease?
9 Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, 40 camels loaded, stood before him, and said, Your servant King Benhadad of Syria has sent me to you saying, Will I recover from this disease?
10 Elisha said to him, Go and say to him, You will certainly recover. But the Lord has shown me that he will surely die.
11 He settled his face steadfastly until he was ashamed. And the man of God wept.
12 Hazael said, Why does my lord weep? And he answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
13 Hazael said, What. Is your servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Syria.
14 He departed from Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, What did Elisha say to you? And he answered, He told me you would surely recover.
15 On the next day he took a thick cloth and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face so that he died. And Hazael reigned in his place.
16 In the fifth year of Jehoram the son of King Ahab of Israel, Jehoshaphat then being king of Judah, Jehoram the son of King Jehoshaphat of Judah began to reign.
17 He was 32 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
18 He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel as the house of Ahab did. For the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
19 Yet the Lord would not destroy Judah for David His servant's sake, as He promised him to give him a light to his children.
20 In his days, Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah and made a king over themselves.
21 Jehoram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him. And he rose by night and struck the Edomites who were all around him, and the commanders of the chariots. And the people fled into their tents.
22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
23 The rest of the acts of Jehoram and all that he did are written in the book of the kings of Judah.
24 Jehoram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
25 In the twelfth year of Jehoram the son of King Ahab of Israel, Ahaziah the son of King Jehoram of Judah, began to reign.
26 Ahaziah was 22 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
27 He walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Ahab, for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
28 He went with Jehoram the son of Ahab to the war against King Hazael of Syria in Ramoth of Gilead. And the Syrians wounded Jehoram.
29 King Jehoram went back to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds that the Syrians had given him in Ramah, when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.