[1] Now Eli'sha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life,
"Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can; for
the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven
years." [2] So the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of
God; she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the
Philistines seven years. [3] And at the end of the seven years, when the
woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went forth to appeal
to the king for her house and her land. [4] Now the king was talking with
Geha'zi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Tell me all the great
things that Eli'sha has done." [5] And while he was telling the king how
Eli'sha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had
restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And
Geha'zi said, "My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom
Eli'sha restored to life." [6] And when the king asked the woman, she told
him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, "Restore all that
was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she
left the land until now." [7] Now Eli'sha came to Damascus. Ben-ha'dad the
king of Syria was sick; and when it was told him, "The man of God has come
here," [8] the king said to Haz'ael, "Take a present with you and go to
meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, saying, `Shall I
recover from this sickness?'" [9] So Haz'ael went to meet him, and took a
present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camel loads. When
he came and stood before him, he said, "Your son Ben-ha'dad king of Syria
has sent me to you, saying, `Shall I recover from this sickness?'" [10] And
Eli'sha said to him, "Go, say to him, `You shall certainly recover'; but
the LORD has shown me that he shall certainly die." [11] And he fixed his
gaze and stared at him, until he was ashamed. And the man of God wept. [12]
And Haz'ael said, "Why does my lord weep?" He answered, "Because I know the
evil that you will do to the people of Israel; you will set on fire their
fortresses, and you will slay their young men with the sword, and dash in
pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child." [13] And
Haz'ael said, "What is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do
this great thing?" Eli'sha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you are to
be king over Syria." [14] Then he departed from Eli'sha, and came to his
master, who said to him, "What did Eli'sha say to you?" And he answered,
"He told me that you would certainly recover." [15] But on the morrow he
took the coverlet and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till
he died. And Haz'ael became king in his stead. [16] In the fifth year of
Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jeho'ram the son of Jehosh'aphat,
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] And he walked in
the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the
daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the
LORD. [19] Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah, for the sake of David his
servant, since he promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons for ever.
[20] In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah, and set up a king of
their own. [21] Then Joram passed over to Za'ir with all his chariots, and
rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders smote the E'domites who
had surrounded him; but his army fled home. [22] So Edom revolted from the
rule of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time. [23] Now
the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in
the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? [24] So Joram slept with
his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and
Ahazi'ah his son reigned in his stead. [25] In the twelfth year of Joram
the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahazi'ah the son of Jeho'ram, king of
Judah, began to reign. [26] Ahazi'ah was twenty-two years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was
Athali'ah; she was a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel. [27] He also
walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did what was evil in the sight
of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was son-in-law to the
house of Ahab. [28] He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against
Haz'ael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead, where the Syrians wounded Joram.
[29] And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which
the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Haz'ael king of
Syria. And Ahazi'ah the son of Jeho'ram king of Judah went down to see
Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
