1 ¶ Then Elisha said to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, Arise, and go with your household, and stay wherever you can: for the LORD has called for a famine; and it shall come upon the land for seven years.

2 And the woman arose, and did as the man of God said: and she went with her household, and stayed in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

3 And at the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines: and she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.

4 And the king said to Gehazi the servant of the man of God, Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.

5 And as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, 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, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, Restore everything that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, until now.

7 ¶ And Elisha went to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and he was told, The man of God has come here.

8 And the king said to Hazael, Take a present with you, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, asking, Shall I recover from this disease?

9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, of every good thing of Damascus, forty camel loads, and went and stood before him, and said, Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, asking, Shall I recover from this disease?

10 And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You certainly can recover: however the LORD has shown me that he will surely die.

11 Then Elisha stared at Hazael, until he was embarrassed: and the man of God wept.

12 And Hazael said, Why are you weeping my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: you will set their strong holds on fire, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip up their women who are with child.

13 And Hazael said, But what, is your servant a dog, that he should do this horrible thing? And Elisha replied, The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Syria.

14 So he departed from Elisha, and went to his master; who asked him, What did Elisha say to you? And he answered, He told me that you would surely recover.

15 But on the next day, 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 place.

16 ¶ Now in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab the king of Israel, Jehoshaphat then being king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah began to reign.

17 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem.

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 for the sake of David his servant, the LORD would not destroy Judah, for he promised him to give him and his children a light forever.

20 In his days Edom revolted against the rule of Judah, and set up a king over themselves.

21 So Jehoram went over to Zair, with all his chariots: and he and his chariot commanders rose up by night, and smashed through the Edomites who surrounded him: and his troops fled to their homes.

22 So Edom rebelled against Judah’s rule, and is still independent to this day. Then Libnah also rebelled at the same time.

23 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the records of the kings of Judah?

24 And Jehoram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

25 ¶ Ahaziah the son of Jehoram the king of Judah begin to reign in the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab the king of Israel,.

26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old 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 his father was the son in law of the house of Ahab.

28 And he joined with Joram the son of Ahab in the war against Hazael the king of Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.

29 And king Joram went back to Jezreel to be healed of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael the king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram the king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.