Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored
to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn
wherever you can sojourn: for Yahweh has called for a famine; and it
shall also come on the land seven years.
The woman arose, and did
according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her
household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
It happened at the seven years' end, that 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.
Now 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.
It happened, as he was telling
the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, that behold, the
woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her
house and for her land. Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the
woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
When
the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to 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.
Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick;
and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come here.
The
king said to Hazael, Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man
of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, Shall I recover of this
sickness?
So 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, Your son Benhadad king of Syria
has sent me to you, saying, Shall I recover of this sickness?
Elisha said to him, Go, tell him, You shall surely recover; however
Yahweh has shown me that he shall surely die.
He settled his
gaze steadfastly [on him], until he was ashamed: and the man of God
wept.
Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? He answered, Because I
know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: their
strongholds will you set on fire, and their young men will you kill
with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up
their women with child.
Hazael said, But what is your servant,
who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? Elisha answered,
Yahweh has shown me that you shall be king over Syria.
Then he
departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What
said Elisha to you? He answered, He told me that you would surely
recover.
It happened on the next day, that he took the coverlet,
and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and
Hazael reigned in his place.
In the fifth year of Joram the son
of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram
the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
Thirty-two
years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in
Jerusalem.
He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did
the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife; and he did
that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
However Yahweh would
not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to
give to him a lamp for his children always.
In his days Edom
revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him:
and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him,
and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then
did Libnah revolt at the same time.
The rest of the acts of
Joram, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Joram slept with his fathers,
and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his
son reigned in his place.
In the twelfth year of Joram the son
of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah
begin to reign.
Twenty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began
to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was
Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
He walked in the
way of the house of Ahab, and did that which was evil in the sight of
Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for he was the son-in-law of the
house of Ahab.
He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against
Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram.
King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which
the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king
of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see
Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.