2 Kings 8

1Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”Cross-references: Gen 12:10 · Gen 26:1 · Gen 41:25 · Gen 41:27 · Gen 41:32 · Gen 47:4 · +19 more

2The woman arose, and did according to the man of God’s word. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.Cross-references: Judg 3:3 · 1Sam 27:1 · 1Tim 5:8

3At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land.Cross-references: 2Sam 14:4 · 2Ki 4:13 · 2Ki 6:26 · 2Ki 8:6 · Ps 82:3 · Jer 22:16 · +1 more

4Now 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.”Cross-references: 2Ki 2:14 · 2Ki 2:20 · 2Ki 2:24 · 2Ki 3:14 · 2Ki 4:3 · 2Ki 4:12 · +16 more

5As he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life begged 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.”Cross-references: Ruth 2:3 · 1Sam 26:17 · 2Ki 4:35 · 2Ki 6:12 · 2Ki 6:26 · Esth 5:14 · +7 more

6When 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.”Cross-references: Gen 37:36 · Deut 22:2 · Judg 11:13 · 2Sam 9:7 · 2Ki 9:32 · 1Chr 28:1 · +2 more

7Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. He was told, “The man of God has come here.”Cross-references: Gen 14:15 · Deut 33:1 · Judg 16:2 · 1Ki 11:24 · 1Ki 13:1 · 1Ki 15:18 · +8 more

8The king said to Hazael, “Take a present in your hand, and go meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”Cross-references: 1Sam 9:7 · 1Ki 14:1 · 1Ki 19:15 · 1Ki 19:17 · 2Ki 1:2 · 2Ki 1:6 · +4 more

9So 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, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”Cross-references: 1Sam 25:8 · 1Ki 19:15 · 2Ki 5:5 · 2Ki 5:13 · 2Ki 6:21 · 2Ki 13:14 · +2 more

10Elisha said to him, “Go, tell him, ‘You will surely recover;’ however Yahweh has shown me that he will surely die.”Cross-references: Gen 2:17 · Gen 41:39 · 1Ki 22:15 · 2Ki 1:4 · 2Ki 1:16 · 2Ki 8:13 · +10 more

11He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept.Cross-references: Gen 45:2 · 2Ki 2:17 · Ps 119:136 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 9:1 · Jer 9:18 · +8 more

12Hazael said, “Why do you weep, my lord?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their little ones in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women.”Cross-references: 1Ki 18:13 · 2Ki 4:28 · 2Ki 10:32 · 2Ki 12:17 · 2Ki 13:3 · 2Ki 13:7 · +9 more

13Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”Cross-references: 1Sam 17:43 · 2Sam 9:8 · 1Ki 19:15 · 2Ki 8:10 · Ps 22:16 · Ps 22:20 · +7 more

14Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?” He answered, “He told me that you would surely recover.”Cross-references: 2Ki 5:25 · 2Ki 8:10 · Matt 26:16

15On the next day, he took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it on the king’s face, so that he died. Then Hazael reigned in his place.Cross-references: 1Sam 16:12 · 1Sam 24:4 · 1Sam 24:13 · 1Sam 26:9 · 1Ki 11:26 · 1Ki 15:28 · +11 more

16In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being king of Judah then, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:50 · 2Ki 1:17 · 2Ki 3:1 · 2Chr 21:1

17He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign. He reigned eight years in Jerusalem.Cross-references: 2Chr 21:5

18He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house, for he married Ahab’s daughter. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.Cross-references: Gen 6:1 · Deut 7:3 · 1Ki 11:1 · 1Ki 21:25 · 1Ki 22:52 · 2Ki 3:2 · +11 more

19However, 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:12 · 2Sam 7:15 · 2Sam 21:17 · 1Ki 11:36 · 1Ki 15:4 · 2Ki 19:34 · +6 more

20In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.Cross-references: Gen 27:40 · 2Sam 8:14 · 1Ki 22:47 · 2Ki 3:9 · 2Ki 3:27 · 2Ki 8:22 · +1 more

21Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him; and he rose up by night and struck the Edomites who surrounded him with the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.Cross-references: 2Sam 18:17

22So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.Cross-references: Gen 27:40 · Josh 21:13 · 2Ki 19:8 · 2Chr 21:10

23The 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?Cross-references: 1Ki 11:41 · 1Ki 14:29 · 1Ki 15:23 · 2Ki 15:6 · 2Ki 15:36 · 2Chr 21:11

24Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: 1Ki 2:10 · 1Ki 11:43 · 1Ki 14:20 · 1Ki 14:31 · 1Chr 3:11 · 2Chr 21:1 · +4 more

25In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.Cross-references: 2Ki 8:16 · 2Ki 9:29 · 2Chr 21:20

26Ahaziah was twenty-two years old 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 9:21 · 2Ki 11:1 · 2Ki 11:13 · 2Chr 22:2 · 2Chr 22:5

27He walked in the way of Ahab’s house and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for he was the son-in-law of Ahab’s house.Cross-references: 2Ki 8:18 · 2Chr 22:3 · Eccl 7:26 · 2Cor 6:14

28He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.Cross-references: Josh 21:38 · 1Ki 4:13 · 1Ki 19:17 · 1Ki 22:3 · 1Ki 22:29 · 2Ki 3:7 · +7 more

29King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:34 · 2Ki 8:28 · 2Ki 9:15 · 2Chr 22:5