2Kings:13:10-25

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* In the thirty seventh year of Joash the king of Judah , Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz reigned over Israel , in Samaria , sixteen years . * And he did the evil in the eyes of Jehovah ; he did not turn aside from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat , who caused Israel to sin ; he walked in it . * And the rest of the acts of Joash , and all that he did , and his might with which he fought with Amaziah the king of Judah , are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel ? * And Joash lay with his fathers ; and Jeroboam sat on his throne ; and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel . * And Elisha had become sick with his illness in which he died ; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him , and wept on his face , and said , My father , my father , the chariot of Israel , and its horsemen ! * And Elisha said to him , Take bow and arrows . And he took bow and arrows to himself . * And he said to the king of Israel , Cause your hand to ride on the bow . And he caused his hand to ride . And Elisha placed his hand on the hands of the king , * and said , Open the window eastward . And he opened . And Elisha said , Shoot . And he shot . And he said , The arrow of deliverance of Jehovah , and the arrow of deliverance from Syria ; for you shall strike the Syrians in Aphek , until it is finished . * And he said , Take the arrows . And he took them up . And he said to the king of Israel , Strike the earth . And he struck three times , and stopped . * And the man of God was angry with him , and said , By striking five or six times , then you would have stricken Syria until it was finished ; but now , you shall strike Syria three times . * And Elisha died , and they buried him . And the bands of Moab came into the land , at the beginning of the year ; * and it happened , they were burying a man ; and , behold , they saw the band , and threw the man into the grave of Elisha . And the man fell and touched the bones of Elisha , and came alive , and rose on his feet . * And Hazael the king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz . * And Jehovah was gracious to them , and pitied them , and turned toward them , for the sake of His covenant with Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , and was not willing to destroy them , nor to cast them out from His presence as yet . * And Hazael the king of Syria died , and his son Ben-hadad reigned in his place . * And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz returned and took the cities out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael that he had taken out of the hand of his father Jehoahaz in battle . Jehoash struck him three times , and he brought back the cities of Israel .

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