King Joram may well have been influenced on this occasion by Israelite custom that considered the end of the seventh year the appropriate time for restitution of property and cancellation of debt (2 Kings 8:3; cf. Ex. 21:2–3; Deut. 15:1). Yet he went further than restoring everything that belonged to her; he also provided her with all the income from her land that she would have received had she stayed in the country. ) Damascus (8:7). Situated on the Barada River—