II Kings Chapter 8

II Kings Chapter 8
1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman,
whose son he had restored to life,
saying, Up, and go, thou, and thine
house, and sojourn where thou canst
sojourn: for the Lord hath called for a
famine, and it cometh also upon the land
seven years.
2 And the woman arose, and did after
the saying of the man of God, and went
both she and her household and
sojourned in the land of the Philistines
seven years.
3 And at the seven years' end, the
woman returned out of the land of the
Philistines, and went out to call upon the
king for her house and for her land. 4
And the king talked with Gehazi the
servant of the man of God, saying, Tell
me, I pray thee, all the great acts, that
Elisha hath done.
5 And as he told the king, how he had
restored one dead to life, behold, the
woman, whose son he had raised to life,
called upon the king for her house and
for her land. Then Gehazi said, My lord,
O king, this is the woman, and this is her
son, whom Elisha restored to life.
6 And when the king asked the woman,
she told him: so the king appointed her
an eunuch, saying, Restore thou all that
are hers, and all the fruits of her lands
since the day she left the land, even until
this time. 7 Then Elisha came to
Damascus, and Ben-hadad the king of
Aram [Syria]
was sick, and one told him, saying, The
man of God is come hither. 8 And the
king said unto Hazael, Take a present in
thine hand, and go meet the man of God,
that thou mayest inquire of the Lord by
him, saying, Shall I recover of this
disease?
9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took
the present in his hand, and of every
good thing of Damascus, even the burden
of forty camels, and came and stood
before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad
king of Aram [Syria] hath sent me to
thee, saying, Shall I recover of this
disease?
10 And Elisha said to him, Go, and say
unto him, Thou shalt recover: howbeit
the Lord hath showed me, that he shall
surely die.
11 And he looked upon him steadfastly,
till Hazael was ashamed, and the man of
God wept.
12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my
lord? And he answered, Because I know
the evil that thou shalt do unto the
children of Israel: for their strong cities
shalt thou set on fire, and their young
men shalt thou slay with the sword, and
shalt dash their infants against the
stones, and rent in pieces their women
with child.
13 Then Hazael said, What? Is thy
servant a dog, that I should do this great
thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord
hath showed me, that thou shalt be king
of Aram [Syria].
14 So 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 thou shouldest
recover.
15 And on the morrow he took a thick
cloth and dipped in it water, and spread
it on his face, and he died: and Hazael
reigned in his stead.
16 Now in the fifth year of Jehoram the
son of Ahab king of Israel, and of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Jehoram the
son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began
to reign.
17 He was two and thirty year old, when
he began to reign: and he reigned eight
year in Jerusalem.
18 And he walked in the ways of the
kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab:
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 had promised him to give him a light,
and to his children forever. 20 In those
days Edom rebelled from under the hand
of Judah, and made a king over
themselves.
21 Therefore Jehoram went to Zair, and
all his chariots with him, and he arose
by night, and smote the Edomites which
were about him with the captains of the
chariots, and the people fled into their
tents.
22 So Edom rebelled from under the
hand of Judah unto this day. then Libnah
rebelled at that same time.
23 Concerning the rest of the acts of
Jehoram and all that he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah?
24 And Jehoram slept with his fathers,
and was buried with his fathers in the
city of David. And Ahaziah his son
reigned in his stead.
25 In the twelfth year of Jehoram the son
of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the
son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to
reign.
26 Two and twenty year 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, like the house of Ahab: for
he was the son in law of the house of
Ahab.
28 And he went with Jehoram the son of
Ahab to war against Hazael king of
Aram [Syria] in Ramoth Gilead, and the
Aramites [Syrians] smote Jehoram. 29
And king Jehoram returned to be healed
in Jezreel of the wounds which the
Aramites [Syrians] had given him at
Ramah, when he fought against Hazael
king of Aram [Syria]. And Ahaziah the
son of Jehoram king of Judah went down
to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in
Jezreel, because he was sick.