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* In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria , for sixteen years . * And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah ; he departed not from any of the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat , who made Israel to sin : he walked therein . * And the rest of the acts of Joash , and all that he did , and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah , are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel ? * And Joash slept with his fathers , and Jeroboam sat upon his throne ; and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel . * And Elisha fell sick of his sickness in which he died . And Joash the king of Israel came down to him , and wept over his face , and said , My father , my father ! the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof ! * And Elisha said to him , Take bow and arrows . And he took a bow and arrows . * And he said to the king of Israel , Put thy hand upon the bow . And he put his hand [upon it ]; and Elisha put his hands upon the king 's hands , * and said , Open the window eastward . And he opened [it ]. And Elisha said , Shoot . And he shot . And he said , An arrow of Jehovah 's deliverance , even an arrow of deliverance from the Syrians ; and thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek , till thou hast consumed [them ]. * And he said , Take the arrows . And he took [them ]. And he said to the king of Israel , Smite upon the ground . And he smote thrice , and stayed . * And the man of God was wroth with him , and said , Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times ; then wouldest thou have smitten the Syrians till thou hadst consumed [them ]; whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice . * And Elisha died , and they buried him . And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year . * And it came to pass as they were burying a man , that behold , they saw the band , and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha ; and the man went [down ], and touched the bones of Elisha , and he revived , and stood upon his feet . * And Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz . * And Jehovah was gracious to them , and had compassion on them , and had respect to them , because of his covenant with Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob ; and he would not destroy them , neither did he cast them from his presence up to that time . * And Hazael king of Syria died , and Ben-Hadad his son reigned in his stead . * And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father in the war . Three times did Joash beat him , and recovered the cities of Israel .

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