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* Then Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life , saying , "Arise and go , you and your household , and stay wherever you can ; for the LORD has called for a famine , and furthermore , it will come upon the land for seven years ." * So the woman arose and did according to the saying of the man of God , and she went with her household and dwelt in the land of the Philistines seven years . * It came to pass , at the end of seven years , that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines ; and she went to make an appeal to the king for her house and for her land . * Then the king talked with Gehazi , the servant of the man of God , saying , "Tell me , please , all the great things Elisha has done ." * Now it happened , as he was telling the king how he had restored the dead to life , that there was the woman whose son he had restored to life , appealing to the king for her house and for her land . And 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 . So the king appointed a certain officer for her , saying , "Restore all that was hers , and all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the land until now ." * Then Elisha went to Damascus , and Ben-Hadad king of Syria was sick ; and it was told him , saying , "The man of God has come here ." * And the king said to Hazael , "Take a present in your hand , and go to meet the man of God , and inquire of the LORD by him , saying , "Shall I recover from this disease ?"' * So Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him , of every good thing of Damascus , forty camel-loads ; and he came and stood before him , and said , "Your son Ben-Hadad king of Syria has sent me to you , saying , "Shall I recover from this disease ?"' * And Elisha said to him , "Go , say to him , "You shall certainly recover .' However the LORD has shown me that he will really die ." * Then he set his countenance in a stare until he was ashamed ; and the man of God wept . * And Hazael said , "Why is my lord weeping ?" He answered , "Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel : Their strongholds you will set on fire , and their young men you will kill with the sword ; and you will dash their children , and rip open their women with child ." * So Hazael said , "But what is your servant--a dog , that he should do this gross thing ?" And Elisha answered , "The LORD has shown me that you will become king over Syria ." * 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 you would surely recover ." * But it happened on the next day that he took a thick cloth and dipped it in water , and spread it over his face so that he died ; and Hazael reigned in his place . * Now in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab , king of Israel , Jehoshaphat having been king of Judah , Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat began to reign as king of Judah . * He was thirty-two years old when he became king , and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem . * And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel , just as the house of Ahab had done , for the daughter of Ahab was his wife ; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD . * Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah , for the sake of His servant David , as He promised him to give a lamp to him and his sons forever . * In his days Edom revolted against Judah 's authority , and made a king over themselves . * So Joram went to Zair , and all his chariots with him . Then he rose by night and attacked the Edomites who had surrounded him and the captains of the chariots ; and the troops fled to their tents . * Thus Edom has been in revolt against Judah 's authority to this day . And Libnah revolted at that time . * 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 ? * So Joram rested with his fathers , and was buried with his fathers in the City of David . Then Ahaziah his son reigned in his place . * 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 became king , and he reigned one year in Jerusalem . His mother 's name was Athaliah the granddaughter 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 , like the house of Ahab , for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab . * Now he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead ; and the Syrians wounded Joram . * Then King Joram went back to Jezreel to recover from the wounds which the Syrians had inflicted on 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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