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Chapter 8 |
| 1 | Then spake
Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go
thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the
LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven
years. |
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And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of
God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the
Philistines seven years. |
| 3 | And it came to pass at the seven years' end,
that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth
to cry unto the king for her house and for her land. |
| 4 | And the king
talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee,
all the great things that Elisha hath done. |
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5 | And it came to pass, as
he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold,
the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house
and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this
is her son, whom Elisha restored to life. |
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6 | And when the king asked the
woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto 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. |
| 7 | And Elisha came to Damascus;
and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man
of God is come hither. |
| 8 | And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present
in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him,
saying, Shall I recover of this disease? |
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9 | So 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, Thy son Benhadad king
of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
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| 10 | And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly
recover: howbeit the LORD hath showed me that he shall surely die. |
| 11 |
And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of
God wept. |
| 12
| And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered,
Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their
strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the
sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
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| 13 | And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this
great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath showed me that thou shalt be
king over Syria. |
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14 | So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master;
who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that
thou shouldest surely recover. |
| 15 | And it came to pass on the
morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on
his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead. |
| 16 | And in
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. |
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| Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign;
and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. |
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18 | And he walked in the way
of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was
his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD. |
| 19 | Yet the LORD
would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to
give him alway a light, and to his children. |
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20 | In his days Edom
revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
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| 21 | So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose
by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of
the chariots: and the people fled into their tents. |
| 22 | Yet Edom
revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at
the same time. |
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23 | And 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
| And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
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| 25 | In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah
the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign. |
| 26 | Two and
twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of
Israel. |
| 27
| And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did
evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in
law of the house of Ahab. |
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28 | And he went with Joram the son of Ahab
to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians
wounded Joram. |
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29 | And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of
the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against
Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to
see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick. |
