2 Kings 8

8^*Then spake Elisha unto the woman, ^awhose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the Lord ^bhath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years. ²And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. ^3*And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land. ⁴And the king talked with ^cGehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done. ⁵And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had ^drestored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her 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. ⁶And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain ^||officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

^7*And Elisha came to ^eDamascus; and ^fBen-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither. ⁸And the king said unto ^gHazael, Take ^ha present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and ⁱinquire of the Lord by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease? ⁹So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present ^†with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, ^kThy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease? ¹⁰And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the Lord hath shewed me that ^lhe shall surely die. ¹¹And he settled his countenance ^†stedfastly, ^muntil he was ashamed: and the man of God wept. ¹²And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know ⁿthe evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and ^owilt dash their children, and ^prip up their women with child. ¹³And Hazael said, But what, ^qis thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, ^rThe Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria. ¹⁴So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that ^sthou shouldest surely recover. ¹⁵And it came to pass on the morrow, that 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 stead.

^16*And in the fifth year of ^tJoram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, ^uJehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah ^†began to reign. ^17xThirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. ¹⁸And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for ^ythe daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the Lord. ¹⁹Yet the Lord would not destroy Judah for David his servant’s sake, ^zas he promised him to give him alway a ^†light, ^aand to his children. ²⁰In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and ^bmade a king over themselves. ²¹So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled ^cinto their tents. ^22||Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then ^dLibnah revolted at the same time. ²³And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? ^24*And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers ^ein the city of David: and ^f||Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

²⁵In the ^gtwelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign. ^26hTwo and twenty years old was Ahaziah 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*And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, as did the house of Ahab: for he was ⁱthe son in law of the house of Ahab. ²⁸And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against ^kHazael king of Syria in ^lRamoth-gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram. ²⁹And ^mking Joram went back to be healed in ⁿJezreel of the wounds ^†which the Syrians had given him at ^||Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. ^oAnd Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was ^†sick.