2 Kings 8
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The Shunammite’s Land Restored
1Now Elisha had said to the woman #ch. 4:35 whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord #Ps. 105:16; Hag. 1:11 has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for #[Gen. 41:27]seven years.” 2So 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. 3And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land. 4Now the king was talking with #See ch. 4:12Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.” 5And while he was telling the king how #[See ver. 1 above]Elisha 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 Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life.” 6And 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.”
Hazael Murders Ben-hadad
7Now Elisha came to #[1 Kgs. 11:24] Damascus. #ch. 6:24; 1 Kgs. 20:1Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick. And when it was told him, “The man of God has come here,” 8the king said to #1 Kgs. 19:15, 17 Hazael, #See 1 Sam. 9:7 “Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God, #[ch. 1:2]and inquire of the Lord through him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’” 9So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camels’ loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, #[ch. 5:13]“Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’” 10And Elisha said to him, #ver. 14 “Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover,’ but#8:10 Some manuscripts say, ‘You shall certainly not recover,’ for the Lord has shown me that #ver. 15he shall certainly die.” 11And he fixed his gaze and stared at him, #ch. 2:17until he was embarrassed. And the man of God wept. 12And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know #ch. 10:32; 12:17; 13:3, 7, 22; Amos 1:3, 4 the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword #Isa. 13:16; Hos. 13:16; Nah. 3:10; [Ps. 137:9; Hos. 10:14]and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.” 13And Hazael said, “What is your servant, #See 1 Sam. 17:43 who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?” Elisha answered, #[1 Kgs. 19:15]“The Lord has shown me that you are to be king over Syria.” 14Then he departed from Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he answered, “He told me #ver. 10that you would certainly recover.” 15But the next day he took the bed cloth#8:15 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Hazael became king in his place.
Jehoram Reigns in Judah
16In the fifth year of #[ch. 1:17; 3:1]Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah,#8:16 Septuagint, Syriac lack when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, began to reign. 17He was #For ver. 17-24, see 2 Chr. 21:5-10thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 18And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for #[ver. 26]the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. 19Yet the Lord was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, #2 Sam. 7:12, 13; Ps. 132:11 since he promised to give #1 Kgs. 11:36; 15:4; [2 Sam. 21:17]a lamp to him and to his sons forever.
20In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up #ch. 3:9; [1 Kgs. 22:47]a king of their own. 21Then Joram#8:21 Joram is an alternate spelling of Jehoram (the son of Jehoshaphat) as in verse 16; also verses 23, 24 passed over to Zair with all his chariots and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, but his army #See 2 Sam. 18:17fled home. 22#[Gen. 27:40] So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then #Josh. 10:29, 30Libnah revolted at the same time. 23Now 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? 24So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried #[2 Chr. 21:20] with his fathers in the city of David, and #[2 Chr. 21:17; 22:6; 25:23]Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
Ahaziah Reigns in Judah
25 # For ver. 25-29, see 2 Chr. 22:1-6 In the #[ch. 9:29]twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign. 26Ahaziah was #[2 Chr. 22:2] twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah; she was #[1 Kgs. 15:10]a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel. 27He 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.
28He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against #ver. 15 Hazael king of Syria at #[1 Kgs. 22:3]Ramoth-gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram. 29#ch. 9:15 And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at #2 Chr. 22:6; [ver. 28; 2 Chr. 22:5] Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And #ch. 9:16Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
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