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          DASV: 2 Kings 8    

1 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored
to life, saying, "You and your family should go to live
somewhere else, for the LORD has called for a famine on
the land that will last for seven years."
2 The woman did as the man of God had said. She and her
family settled in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
3 At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the
land of the Philistines. She went to appeal to the king
to get her house and her land back.
4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the
man of God, saying, "Tell me, all the great things that
Elisha has done."
5 As he was telling the king about how Elisha had restored to
life one who was dead, the woman whose son he had brought back
to life, appealed to the king for her house and her land.
So Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman, and
this is her son, whom Elisha brought back to life."
6 When the king asked the woman about it, she told him what
had happened. So the king assigned a certain officer to her,
saying, "Give back everything that was hers, along with all
the produce of the field since the day that she left the
land until now."

7 Elisha went to Damascus, while Benhadad the king of Aram was
sick. He was told, "The man of God has come here."
8 The king said to Hazael, "Take a present in your hand, and go,
meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him,
'Will I recover from this sickness?'"
9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took presents with him,
from all the good things of Damascus loaded on forty camels.
He came and stood before him, and said, "Your son Benhadad
king of Aram has sent me to you, asking, 'Will I recover
from this sickness?'"
10 Elisha said to him, "Go tell him, 'You will surely recover,'
but the LORD has revealed to me that he will surely die."

11 Elisha looked straight at Hazael staring at him until
Hazael became embarrassed. Then the man of God wept.
12 So Hazael asked, "Why are you crying my lord?" Elisha replied,
"Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel.
You will set their fortresses on fire, kill their young men
with the sword, dash their little ones in pieces, and rip open
their pregnant women."
13 But Hazael said, "But how could your servant, who is merely
an insignificant dog, do this great thing?" Elisha answered,
"The LORD has revealed to me that you will be king over Aram."
14 Then Hazael left Elisha, came to his master, who asked him,
"What did Elisha tell you?" Hazael answered, "He told me that
you would surely recover."
15 But the next day, Hazael took a blanket, soaked it in water
and spread it on his face, so that he died. Then Hazael
reigned in his place.

16 In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel,
Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
17 He was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned
eight years in Jerusalem.
18 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the
house of Ahab did for he had married the daughter of Ahab.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
19 But the LORD would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's
sake, as he had promised to give a lamp to him and his
descendants forever.

20 In his days Edom revolted against the hand of Judah, and
set up their own king.
21 Then Jehoram [also called Joram] passed over to Zair with
all his chariots. He got up at night and struck down the
Edomites who had surrounded him and his chariot commanders;
but his troops fled back home.
22 So Edom revolted against the rule of Judah to this day.
The town of Libnah also revolted at that same time.
23 The rest of the acts of Jehoram, and all that he did,
are they not written in the scroll of the Annals of the
Kings of Judah?
24 Jehoram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David. Then Ahaziah his son reigned
in his place.

25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel,
Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.
26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and
he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was
Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
27 He walked in the way of the house of Ahab. He did what
was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab
had done, for he was related by marriage to the house
of Ahab.
28 He went with Joram the son of Ahab to fight against
Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead. Now the Arameans
wounded Joram.
29 King Joram returned to recover in Jezreel from the
wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah, when
he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah the
son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the
son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was wounded.

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