8:1 Now
Elisha
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."
8:2 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.
8:3 And
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.
8:4 Now
the
king
was
talking
with
Gehazi
the
servant
of
the
man
of
God,
saying,
"Tell
me
all
the
great
things
that
Elisha
has
done."
8:5 And
while
he
was
telling
the
king
how
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."
8:6 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."
8:7 Now
Elisha
came
to
Damascus.
Ben-hadad
the
king
of
Syria
was
sick.
And
when
it
was
told
him,
"The
man
of
God
has
come
here,"
8:8 the
king
said
to
Hazael,
"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'"
8:9 So
Hazael
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-hadad
king
of
Syria
has
sent
me
to
you,
saying,
'Shall
I
recover
from
this
sickness'"
8:10 And
Elisha
said
to
him,
"Go,
say
to
him,
'You
shall
certainly
recover,'
but
the
LORD
has
shown
me
that
he
shall
certainly
die."
8:11 And
he
fixed
his
gaze
and
stared
at
him,
until
he
was
embarrassed.
And
the
man
of
God
wept.
8:12 And
Hazael
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
kill
their
young
men
with
the
sword
and
dash
in
pieces
their
little
ones
and
rip
open
their
pregnant
women."
8:13 And
Hazael
said,
"What
is
your
servant,
who
is
but
a
dog,
that
he
should
do
this
great
thing"
Elisha
answered,
"The
LORD
has
shown
me
that
you
are
to
be
king
over
Syria."
8:14 Then
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
that
you
would
certainly
recover."
8:15 But
the
next
day
he
took
the
bed
cloth
and
dipped
it
in
water
and
spread
it
over
his
face,
till
he
died.
And
Hazael
became
king
in
his
place.
8:16 In
the
fifth
year
of
Joram
the
son
of
Ahab,
king
of
Israel,
when
Jehoshaphat
was
king
of
Judah,
Jehoram
the
son
of
Jehoshaphat,
king
of
Judah,
began
to
reign.
8:17 He
was
thirty-two
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
reigned
eight
years
in
Jerusalem.
8:18 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.
8:19 Yet
the
LORD
was
not
willing
to
destroy
Judah,
for
the
sake
of
David
his
servant,
since
he
promised
to
give
a
lamp
to
him
and
to
his
sons
forever.
8:20 In
his
days
Edom
revolted
from
the
rule
of
Judah
and
set
up
a
king
of
their
own.
8:21 Then
Joram
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
fled
home.
8:22 So
Edom
revolted
from
the
rule
of
Judah
to
this
day.
Then
Libnah
revolted
at
the
same
time.
8:23 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
8:24 So
Joram
slept
with
his
fathers
and
was
buried
with
his
fathers
in
the
city
of
David,
and
Ahaziah
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
8:25 In
the
twelfth
year
of
Joram
the
son
of
Ahab,
king
of
Israel,
Ahaziah
the
son
of
Jehoram,
king
of
Judah,
began
to
reign.
8:26 Ahaziah
was
twenty-two
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
one
year
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother's
name
was
Athaliah;
she
was
a
granddaughter
of
Omri
king
of
Israel.
8:27 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.
8:28 He
went
with
Joram
the
son
of
Ahab
to
make
war
against
Hazael
king
of
Syria
at
Ramoth-gilead,
and
the
Syrians
wounded
Joram.
8:29 And
King
Joram
returned
to
be
healed
in
Jezreel
of
the
wounds
that
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.