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* Then Elisha spoke unto the woman , whose son he had restored to life , saying , Arise , and go thou and thine household and sojourn wherever thou canst sojourn ; for the LORD has called for a famine which shall come upon the land seven years . * Then the woman arose and did as the man of God told her ; and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years . * And it came to pass at the end of the seven years 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 lands . * And the king had talked with Gehazi , the servant of the man of God , saying , Tell me , I pray thee , all the great things that Elisha has done . * And as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life , behold , the woman , whose son he had restored to life , cried to the king for her house and for her land . So Gehazi said , My lord , O king , this [is ] the woman , and this [is ] her son , whom Elisha restored to life . * And when the king asked the woman , she told him . Then the king appointed unto her a eunuch , saying , Restore all that [was ] hers and all the fruits of the lands since the day that she left the lands , even until now . * Elisha went to Damascus ; and Benhadad , the king of Syria , was sick ; and it was told him , saying , The man of God is come here . * And the king said unto Hazael , Take a present in thy hand , and go , meet the man of God and enquire of the LORD by him , saying , Shall I recover of this disease ? * 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 , has sent me to thee , saying , Shall I recover of this disease ? * And Elisha said unto him , Go , say unto him , Thou may certainly recover . But the LORD has showed me that he shall surely die . * And he settled his countenance steadfastly , until he was ashamed ; and the man of God wept . * Then Hazael said unto him , Why does my lord weep ? And he answered , Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the sons 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 . * And Hazael said , But what , [is ] thy servant a dog , that he should do this great thing ? And Elisha answered , The LORD has showed me that thou [shalt be ] king over Syria . * So he departed from Elisha and came to his master ; who said to him , What did Elisha say to thee ? And he answered , He told me [that ] thou may surely recover . * And it came to pass on the next day 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 . * 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 . * He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign , and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem . * 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 . * Yet with all this , the LORD would not destroy Judah for David , his servant 's sake , as he had promised him to give him always a light of his sons . * In his days , Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah and made a king over themselves . * So Joram went over to Zair and all his chariots with him , and he rose up by night and smote the Edomites , who had compassed him about , and the captains of the chariots ; and the people fled into their tents . * Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day . Then Libnah revolted at the same time . * 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 ? * 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 . * In the twelfth year of Joram , the son of Ahab king of Israel , Ahaziah , the son of Jehoram king of Judah , began to reign . * 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 . * 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 . * And he went with Joram , the son of Ahab , to the war against Hazael , king of Syria , in Ramothgilead ; and the Syrians wounded Joram . * 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 .:

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