1:1Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.1:2Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this sickness.1:3But the angel of Yahweh said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?1:4Now therefore thus says Yahweh, You shall not come down from the bed where you are gone up, but shall surely die. Elijah departed.1:5The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, Why is it that you have returned?1:6They said to him, There came up a man to meet us, and said to us, Go, turn again to the king who sent you, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you are gone up, but shall surely die.1:7He said to them, What manner of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?1:8They answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a belt of leather about his waist. He said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.1:9Thenthe kingsent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. He went up to him: and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He spoke to him, man of God, the king has said, Come down.1:10Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.1:11Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He answered him, man of God, thus has the king said, Come down quickly.1:12Elijah answered them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. The fire of God came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.1:13Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.1:14Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in your sight.1:15The angel of Yahweh said to Elijah, Go down with him: don't be afraid of him. He arose, and went down with him to the king.1:16He said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you are gone up, but shall surely die.1:17So he died according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.1:18Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2:1It happened, when Yahweh would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.2:2Elijah said to Elisha, Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel. Elisha said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to Bethel.2:3The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?"
He said, "Yes, I know it; hold your peace."
2:4Elijah said to him, Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho. He said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they came to Jericho.2:5The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?"
He answered, "Yes, I know it. Hold your peace."
2:6Elijah said to him, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan."
He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." They two went on.2:7Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood over against them afar off: and they two stood by the Jordan.2:8Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they two went over on dry ground.2:9It happened, when they had gone over, that Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you. Elisha said, please let a double portion of your spirit be on me.2:10He said, You have asked a hard thing:nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so to you; but if not, it shall not be so.2:11It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold,there appeareda chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which parted them both apart; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.2:12Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen! He saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.2:13He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.2:14He took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah? and when he also had struck the waters, they were divided here and there; and Elisha went over.2:15When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho over against him saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah does rest on Elisha. They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.2:16They said to him, See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray you, and seek your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up, and cast him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, You shall not send.2:17When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but didn't find him.2:18They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go?'"2:19The men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, we pray you, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees: but the water is bad, and the land miscarries.2:20He said, Bring me a new jar, and put salt therein. They brought it to him.2:21He went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and said, Thus says Yahweh, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying.2:22So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.2:23He went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead.2:24He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.2:25He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
3:1Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.3:2He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.3:3Nevertheless he cleaved to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it.3:4Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he rendered to the king of Israel the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.3:5But it happened, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.3:6King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.3:7He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against me: will you go with me against Moab to battle? He said, I will go up: I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.3:8He said, Which way shall we go up? He answered, The way of the wilderness of Edom.3:9So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the army, nor for the animals that followed them.3:10The king of Israel said, Alas! for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.3:11But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him? One of the king of Israel's servants answered, Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.3:12Jehoshaphat said, The word of Yahweh is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.3:13Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? get you to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother. The king of Israel said to him, No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.3:14Elisha said, As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.3:15But now bring me a minstrel. It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Yahweh came on him.3:16He said, Thus says Yahweh, Make this valley full of trenches.3:17For thus says Yahweh, You shall not see wind, neither shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, and you shall drink, both you and your livestock and your animals.3:18This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh: he will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.3:19You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.3:20It happened in the morning, about the time of offering the offering, that behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.3:21Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood on the border.3:22They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood:3:23and they said, This is blood; the kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each man his fellow: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.3:24When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites.3:25They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Haresethonlythey left its stones; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it.3:26When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.3:27Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
4:1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.4:2Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me; what have you in the house? She said, Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.4:3Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.4:4You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and you shall set aside that which is full.4:5So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they broughtthe vesselsto her, and she poured out.4:6It happened, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. He said to her, There isn't another vessel. The oil stayed.4:7Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and live you and your sons of the rest.4:8It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.4:9She said to her husband, See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.4:10Let us make, Please, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lamp stand: and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there.4:11It fell on a day, that he came there, and he turned into the chamber and lay there.4:12He said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. When he had called her, she stood before him.4:13He said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army? She answered, I dwell among my own people.4:14He said, What then is to be done for her? Gehazi answered, Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.4:15He said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the door.4:16He said, At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.4:17The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.4:18When the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.4:19He said to his father, My head, my head. He said to his servant, Carry him to his mother.4:20When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.4:21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shutthe dooron him, and went out.4:22She called to her husband, and said, Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.4:23He said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon nor Sabbath. She said, It shall be well.4:24Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; don't slacken me the riding, except I bid you.4:25So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. It happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is the Shunammite:4:26please run now to meet her, and ask her, Is it well with you? is it well with your husband? is it well with the child? She answered, It is well.4:27When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hid it from me, and has not told me.4:28Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, Do not deceive me?4:29Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your waist, and take my staff in your hand, and go your way: if you meet any man, Don't greet him; and if anyone greets you, don't answer him again: and lay my staff on the face of the child.4:30The mother of the child said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. He arose, and followed her.4:31Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child has not awakened.4:32When Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.4:33He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.4:34He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands: and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew warm.4:35Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.4:36He called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. When she was come in to him, he said, Take up your son.4:37Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.4:38Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.4:39One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of stew; for they didn't recognize them.4:40So they poured out for the men to eat. It happened, as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out, and said, man of God, there is death in the pot. They could not eat of it.4:41But he said, Then bring meal. He cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. There was no harm in the pot.4:42There came a man from Baal Shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, Give to the people, that they may eat.4:43His servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says Yahweh, They shall eat, and shall leave of it.4:44So he set it before them, and they ate, and left of it, according to the word of Yahweh.
5:1Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor,but he wasa leper.5:2The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman's wife.5:3She said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.5:4One went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maiden who is of the land of Israel.5:5The king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousandpiecesof gold, and ten changes of clothing.5:6He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may recover him of his leprosy.5:7It happened, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man does send to me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.5:8It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Why have you torn your clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.5:9So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.5:10Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.5:11But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper.5:12Aren't Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.5:13His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid you do some great thing, wouldn't you have done it? how much rather then, when he says to you, Wash, and be clean?5:14Then went he down, and dippedhimselfseven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.5:15He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, please take a present from your servant.5:16But he said, As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none. He urged him to take it; but he refused.5:17Naaman said, If not, yet, please let there be given to your servant two mules' burden of earth; for your servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh.5:18In this thing Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, Yahweh pardon your servant in this thing.5:19He said to him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.5:20But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: as Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.5:21So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?5:22He said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from the hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; please give them a talent of silver, and two changes of clothing.5:23Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they bore them before him.5:24When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed.5:25But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, Whence come you, Gehazi? He said, Your servant went no where.5:26He said to him, Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?5:27The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to you, and to your seed forever. He went out from his presence a leperas whiteas snow.
6:1The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, See now, the place where we dwell before you is too strait for us.6:2Let us go, we pray you, to the Jordan, and take there every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. He answered, Go you.6:3One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. He answered, I will go.6:4So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.6:5But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.6:6The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.6:7He said, "Take it." So he put out his hand and took it.
6:8Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.6:9The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Beware that you not pass such a place; for there the Syrians are coming down.6:10The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.6:11The heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said to them, Won't you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?6:12One of his servants said, No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber.6:13He said, Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him. It was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.6:14Therefore sent he there horses, and chariots, and a great army: and they came by night, and surrounded the city.6:15When the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?6:16He answered, Don't be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.6:17Elisha prayed, and said, Yahweh, Please open his eyes, that he may see. Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.6:18When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, Please smite this people with blindness. He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.6:19Elisha said to them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek. He led them to Samaria.6:20It happened, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, Yahweh, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.6:21The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I strike them? shall I strike them?6:22He answered, You shall not strike them: would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.6:23He prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.6:24It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up, and besieged Samaria.6:25There was a great famine in Samaria: and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eightypiecesof silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for fivepiecesof silver.6:26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.6:27He said, If Yahweh doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress?6:28The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.6:29So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him; and she has hid her son.6:30It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh.6:31Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.6:32But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; andthe kingsent a man from before him: but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See you how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him: isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?6:33While he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of Yahweh; why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?
7:1Elisha said, Hear you the word of Yahweh: thus says Yahweh, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour besoldfor a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.7:2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? He said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.7:3Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?7:4If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the army of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.7:5They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they were come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there.7:6For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us.7:7Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.7:8When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried there silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it; and they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried there also, and went and hid it.7:9Then they said one to another, We aren't doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we hold our peace: if we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household.7:10So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.7:11He called the porters; and they told it to the king's household within.7:12The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.7:13One of his servants answered, Please let some take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel who are consumed); and let us send and see.7:14They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.7:15They went after them to the Jordan: and behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.7:16The people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour wassoldfor a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahweh.7:17The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.7:18It happened, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;7:19and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it:7:20it happened even so to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.
8:1Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn: for Yahweh has called for a famine; and it shall also come on the land seven years.8:2The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.8:3It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.8:4Now 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.8:5It happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, that behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to 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.8:6When 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.8:7Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come here.8:8The king said to Hazael, Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, Shall I recover of this sickness?8:9So 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, Shall I recover of this sickness?8:10Elisha said to him, Go, tell him, You shall surely recover; however Yahweh has shown me that he shall surely die.8:11He settled his gaze steadfastlyon him, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.8:12Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? He answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: their strongholds will you set on fire, and their young men will you kill with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.8:13Hazael said, But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? Elisha answered, Yahweh has shown me that you shall be king over Syria.8:14Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to you? He answered, He told me that you would surely recover.8:15It happened on the next day, that he took the coverlet, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his place.8:16In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.8:17Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.8:18He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife; and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.8:19However 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.8:20In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.8:21Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.8:22So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then did Libnah revolt at the same time.8:23The 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?8:24Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.8:25In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.8:26Twenty-two years old was Ahaziah 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.8:27He walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.8:28He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram.8:29King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of 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.
9:1Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Gird up your waist, and take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.9:2When you come there, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brothers, and carry him to an inner chamber.9:3Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and don't wait.9:4So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead.9:5When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to you, captain. Jehu said, To which of us all? He said, To you, O captain.9:6He arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I have anointed you king over the people of Yahweh, even over Israel.9:7You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.9:8For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab everyonewho urinates against a wall,and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.9:9I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.9:10The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. He opened the door, and fled.9:11Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, Is all well? why came this mad fellow to you? He said to them, You know the man and what his talk was.9:12They said, It is false; tell us now. He said, Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel.9:13Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king.9:14So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;9:15but king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said, If this be your mind, then let none escape and go forth out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.9:16So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.9:17Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?9:18So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus says the king, Is it peace? Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? turn you behind me. The watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he isn't coming back.9:19Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, Thus says the king, Is it peace? Jehu answered, What have you to do with peace? turn you behind me.9:20The watchman told, saying, He came even to them, and isn't coming back: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously.9:21Joram said, Make ready. They made ready his chariot. Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.9:22It happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? He answered, What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?9:23Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, Ahaziah.9:24Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.9:25Then saidJehuto Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how that, when I and you rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:9:26Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, says Yahweh; and I will requite you in this plat, says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him into the platof ground, according to the word of Yahweh.9:27But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot:and they struck himat the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.9:28His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.9:29In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.9:30When Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.9:31As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Is it peace, you Zimri, your master's murderer?9:32He lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? There looked out to him two or three eunuchs.9:33He said, Throw her down. So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trod her under foot.9:34When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.9:35They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.9:36Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, This is the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel;9:37and the body of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
10:1Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought upthe sons ofAhab, saying,10:2Now as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor;10:3look you out the best and meet of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.10:4But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, the two kings didn't stand before him: how then shall we stand?10:5He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who brought upthe children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants, and will do all that you shall bid us; we will not make any man king: you do that which is good in your eyes.10:6Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If you be on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.10:7It happened, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.10:8There came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. He said, Lay you them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.10:9It happened in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, You are righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him; but who struck all these?10:10Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of Yahweh, which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab: for Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.10:11So Jehu struck all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.10:12He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds in the way,10:13Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are you? They answered, We are the brothers of Ahaziah: and we go down to Greet the children of the king and the children of the queen.10:14He said, Take them alive. They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.10:15When he was departed there, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him, and said to him, Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart? Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me your hand. He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.10:16He said, Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh. So they made him ride in his chariot.10:17When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to Elijah.10:18Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.10:19Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshippers, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrificeto doto Baal; whoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.10:20Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal. They proclaimed it.10:21Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn't come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.10:22He said to him who was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. He brought them forth vestments.10:23Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal; and he said to the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of Yahweh, but the worshippers of Baal only.10:24They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape,he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.10:25It happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and kill them; let none come forth. They struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.10:26They brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.10:27They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.10:28Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.10:29However from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin, Jehu didn't depart from after them,to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.10:30Yahweh said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes,andhave done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.10:31But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart: he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.10:32In those days Yahweh began to cut off from Israel: and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel;10:33from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.10:34Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?10:35Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.10:36The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
11:1Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.11:2But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse,and put themin the bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain;11:3He was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. Athaliah reigned over the land.11:4In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, and showed them the king's son.11:5He commanded them, saying, This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king's house;11:6A third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.11:7The two companies of you, even all who go forth on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of Yahweh about the king.11:8You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain: and be you with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.11:9The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.11:10The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David's, which were in the house of Yahweh.11:11The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king.11:12Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, andgave himthe testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said,Longlive the king.11:13When Athaliah heard the noise of the guardand ofthe people, she came to the people into the house of Yahweh:11:14and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, Treason! treason!11:15Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and him who follows her kill with the sword. For the priest said, Don't let her be slain in the house of Yahweh.11:16So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the king's house: and there was she slain.11:17Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh's people; between the king also and the people.11:18All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh.11:19He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. He sat on the throne of the kings.11:20So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house.11:21Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
12:1In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.12:2Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.12:3However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.12:4Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of Yahweh,12:5let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found.12:6But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.12:7Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for theotherpriests, and said to them, Why don't you repair the breaches of the house? now therefore take nomoremoney from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.12:8The priests consented that they should take nomoremoney from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.12:9But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of Yahweh: and the priests who kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh.12:10It was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Yahweh.12:11They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house of Yahweh,12:12and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.12:13But there were not made for the house of Yahweh cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh;12:14for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired therewith the house of Yahweh.12:15Moreover they didn't demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.12:16The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings, was not brought into the house of Yahweh: it was the priests'.12:17Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.12:18Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.12:19Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?12:20His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo,on the waythat goes down to Silla.12:21For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
13:1In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria,and reignedseventeen years.13:2He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it.13:3The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, continually.13:4Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.13:5(Yahweh gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their tents as before.13:6Nevertheless they didn't depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.)13:7For he didn't leave to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.13:8Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?13:9Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his place.13:10In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria,and reignedsixteen years.13:11He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; he didn't depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; but he walked therein.13:12Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?13:13Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.13:14Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!13:15Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows; and he took to him bow and arrows.13:16He said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow; and he put his handon it. Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands.13:17He said, Open the window eastward; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot; and he shot. He said, Yahweh's arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you shall strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them.13:18He said, Take the arrows; and he took them. He said to the king of Israel, Smite on the ground; and he struck thrice, and stayed.13:19The man of God was angry with him, and said, You should have struck five or six times: then had you struck Syria until you had consumed it, whereas now you shall strike Syria but thrice.13:20Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.13:21It happened, as they were burying a man, that behold, they spied a band; and they cast the man into the tomb of Elisha: and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.13:22Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.13:23But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.13:24Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his place.13:25Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash strike him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
14:1In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah to reign.14:2He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.14:3He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.14:4However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.14:5It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father:14:6but the children of the murderers he didn't put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.14:7He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.14:8Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.14:9Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.14:10You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: glory of it, and abide at home; for why should you meddle toyourhurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?14:11But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.14:12Judah was defeated by Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.14:13Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.14:14He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.14:15Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?14:16Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.14:17Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.14:18Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?14:19They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.14:20They brought him on horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.14:21All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.14:22He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.14:23In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria,and reignedforty-one years.14:24He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.14:25He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath Hepher.14:26For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel.14:27Yahweh didn't say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.14:28Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath,which had belongedto Judah, for Israel, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?14:29Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.
15:1In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.15:2Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.15:3He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.15:4However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.15:5Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land.15:6Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?15:7Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.15:8In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.15:9He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his fathers had done: he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.15:10Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.15:11Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.15:12This was the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. So it came to pass.15:13Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned the space of a month in Samaria.15:14Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him, and reigned in his place.15:15Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.15:16Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all who were therein, and its borders, from Tirzah: because they didn't open to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein who were with child he ripped up.15:17In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel,and reignedten years in Samaria.15:18He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.15:19There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.15:20Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn't stay there in the land.15:21Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?15:22Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.15:23In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria,and reignedtwo years.15:24He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.15:25Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, and struck him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his place.15:26Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.15:27In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria,and reignedtwenty years.15:28He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.15:30Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.15:31Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.15:32In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.15:33He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.15:34He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.15:35However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.15:36Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?15:37In those days Yahweh began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.15:38Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.