8Meanwhile, Elisha urged the woman whose son he had restored to life, "You must get up and leave with your household to go live wherever you can, because the Lord has called for a famine, and it's going to come over the land for seven years."H1696H477H802H1121H2421H559H6965H3212H1004H1481H834H1481H3068H7121H7458H935H776H7651H8141 2So the woman followed the instructions given to her by the man of God, and she went to the territory of the Philistines to live for seven years with her household.H802H6965H6213H1697H376H430H3212H1004H1481H776H6430H7651H8141 3At the end of the seven years, the woman returned from the territory of the Philistines and went to the king in order to file an appeal regarding her house and her grain field.H7651H8141H7097H802H7725H776H6430H3318H6817H4428H1004H7704 4The king was talking with Gehazi, the attendant of the man of God. He had asked Gehazi, "Please tell me about all of the great things that Elisha has done."H4428H1696H1522H5288H376H430H559H5608H1419H477H6213 5Just as he was telling the king about Elisha's having restored the dead to life, the woman whose son had been restored arrived and appealed to the king for her house and her land! Gehazi told the king, "Your majesty, this is the woman! And here's her son, whom Elisha restored to life!"H5608H4428H2421H4191H2421H802H1121H2421H6817H4428H1004H7704H1522H559H113H4428H802H1121H477H2421 6The king consulted with the woman, who related the story. So the king appointed a court official to represent her and ordered him: "Restore to her everything that belonged to her, including all of the produce that her fields yielded from the day she left the land until now."H4428H7592H802H5608H4428H5414H259H5631H559H7725H8393H7704H3117H5800H776 7Later on, Elisha traveled to Damascus. King Ben-hadad of Aram was ill, but someone informed him, "The man of God has come here!"H477H935H1834H1130H4428H758H2470H5046H559H376H430H935H2008 8So the king told Hazael, "Take a gift with you and go meet the man of God. Inquire of the Lord through him and ask, 'Will I recover from this sickness.'"H4428H559H2371H3947H4503H3027H3212H7125H376H430H1875H3068H559H2421H2483 9So Hazael went out to meet with him and took a gift with him - 40 camel loads filled with samples of everything good in Damascus. He approached the man of God and said, "Your son King Ben-hadad from Aram has sent me to you to ask you, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"H2371H3212H7125H3947H4503H3027H2898H1834H705H1581H4853H935H5975H6440H559H1121H1130H4428H758H7971H559H2421H2483 10But Elisha told him, "Go tell him, 'You will certainly recover,' but the Lord has shown me that he will certainly die."H477H559H3212H559H2421H2421H3068H7200H4191H4191 11Then Elisha looked steadily at Hazael until Hazael grew ashamed, and then the man of God began to cry.H5975H6440H7760H954H376H430H1058 12"Why are you crying, sir?" Hazael asked. "Because I know the evil that you're about to bring on the Israelites," he replied. "You'll burn down their fortified cities, execute their young men with swords, dash to pieces their little ones, and you'll tear open their pregnant women!"H2371H559H1058H113H559H3045H7451H6213H1121H3478H4013H7971H784H970H2026H2719H7376H5768H1234H2030 13But Hazael responded, "What?Who am I, your servant, that I should do such a horrible thing?" But Elisha answered, "The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Aram."H2371H559H5650H3611H6213H1419H1697H477H559H3068H7200H4428H758 14So he left Elisha and returned to his master, who asked him, "What did Elisha tell you?" He replied, "He said to me that you would certainly get better."H3212H477H935H113H559H559H477H559H559H2421H2421 15But the very next day, Hazael grabbed a thick covering, soaked it in water, and spread it over the king's face, and he suffocated. Then Hazael succeeded Ben-haddad as king.H4283H3947H4346H2881H4325H6566H6440H4191H2371H4427 16Sometime during the fifth year of the reign of Ahab's son Joram, king of Israel (while Jehoshaphat was still ruling as king of Judah), Jehoshaphat's son Jehoram ascended to the throne of Judah.H2568H8141H3141H1121H256H4428H3478H3092H4428H3063H3088H1121H3092H4428H3063H4427 17He was 32 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eight years.H7970H8147H8141H1121H4427H4427H8083H8141H3389 18He lived his life like the kings of Israel did, following the example of Ahab's household when he married Ahab's daughter and practiced what was evil in the Lord's presence.H3212H1870H4428H3478H6213H1004H256H1323H256H802H6213H7451H5869H3068 19But the Lord remained unwilling to destroy Judah for the sake of his servant David, since he had promised to keep David's lamp burning brightly through his descendants every day.17H3068H14H7843H3063H1732H5650H559H5414H3117H5216H1121 20During Jehoram's lifetime, Edom rebelled from Judah's hegemony and appointed a king to rule over themselves.H3117H123H6586H3027H3063H4427H4428 21Then Joram crossed over to Zair, along with all of his chariots. At night he attacked the Edomites who had surrounded him and the commanders of his chariots, but the army ran away to their tents.H3141H5674H6811H7393H6965H3915H5221H123H5437H8269H7393H5971H5127H168 22Edom remains in rebellion against Judah to this day, and Libnah revolted at the same time.H123H6586H3027H3063H3117H3841H6586H1931H6256 23The rest of the official acts of Joram, along with everything else that he did, are recorded in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah, are they not -H3499H1697H3141H6213H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H3063 24After Joram was laid to rest with his ancestors in the city of David, his son Ahaziah replaced him as king.H3141H7901H1H6912H1H5892H1732H274H1121H4427 25Joram's son Ahaziah began to reign as king of Judah during the twelfth year of the reign of Ahab's son Joram, king of Israel.H8147H6240H8141H8141H3141H1121H256H4428H3478H274H1121H3088H4428H3063H4427 26Ahaziah was 22 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for one year. His mother was named Athaliah. She was the granddaughter of Omri, king of Israel.H8147H6242H8141H1121H274H4427H4427H259H8141H3389H517H8034H6271H1323H6018H4428H3478 27Ahaziah lived his life following the example of Ahab's household, practicing what the Lord considered to be evil, just like the household of Ahab, because he was a son-in-law to Ahab's household.H3212H1870H1004H256H6213H7451H5869H3068H1004H256H2860H1004H256 28He joined Ahab's son Joram in an attack on King Hazael of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and that's where the Arameans wounded Joram.H3212H3141H1121H256H4421H2371H4428H758H7433H1568H761H5221H3141 29Then King Joram retreated to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah during the battle against King Hazael of Aram. Jehoram's son Ahaziah, king of Judah, went to visit Ahab's son Joram in Jezreel because Joram was sick.H4428H3141H7725H7495H3157H4347H761H5221H7414H3898H2371H4428H758H274H1121H3088H4428H3063H3381H7200H3141H1121H256H3157H2470
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