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Then spake Elisha unto the woman ,
whose son he had restored to life ,
saying ,
Arise ,
and go thou and thine household ,
and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn :
for the LORD hath called for a famine ra #
ab #;
and it shall also come upon the land seven years .
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And the woman arose ,
and did after the saying of the man of God :
and she went with her household ,
and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years .
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And it came to pass at the seven years end ,
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 land .
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And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God ,
saying ,
Tell me ,
I pray thee ,
all the great things that Elisha hath done .
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And it came to pass ,
as he was telling the king how he had restored #
a dead body to life ,
that ,
behold ,
the woman ,
whose son he had restored to life ,
cried 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 .
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And when the king asked the woman ,
she told him .
So the king appointed unto her a certain officer ,
saying ,
Restore all that was hers ,
and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land ,
even until now .
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And Elisha came to Damascus ;
and Benhadad Ben-Hadad #
the king of Syria was sick ;
and it was told him ,
saying ,
The man of God is come hither .
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And the king said unto Hazael Chaza #
el #,
Take a present in thine hand ,
and go ,
meet the man of God ,
and enquire of the LORD by him ,
saying ,
Shall I recover of this disease ?
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So Hazael went to meet him ,
and took a present with him ,
even of every good thing of Damascus ,
forty #
arba #
iym #
camels burden ,
and came and stood before him ,
and said ,
Thy son Benhadad Ben-Hadad #
king of Syria hath sent me to thee ,
saying ,
Shall I recover of this disease ?
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And Elisha said unto him ,
Go ,
say unto him ,
Thou mayest certainly recover :
howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die .
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And he settled his countenance stedfastly ,
until he was ashamed :
and the man of God wept .
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And Hazael said ,
Why weepeth my lord ?
And he answered ,
Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel Yisra #
el #:
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 .
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And Hazael said ,
But what ,
is thy servant a dog ,
that he should do this great thing ?
And Elisha answered ,
The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria .
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So he departed from Elisha ,
and came to his master ;
who said to him ,
What said Elisha to thee ?
And he answered ,
He told me that thou shouldest surely recover .
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And it came to pass on the morrow ,
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 .
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And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab #
Ach #
ab #
king of Israel Yisra #
el #,
Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah ,
Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign .
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Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign ;
and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem .
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And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel Yisra #
el #,
as did the house of Ahab #
Ach #
ab #:
for the daughter of Ahab #
Ach #
ab #
was his wife :
and he did evil in the sight of the LORD .
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Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servants sake ,
as he promised him to give him alway a light ,
and to his children .
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In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah ,
and made a king over themselves .
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So Joram went over to Zair Tsa #
iyr #,
and all the chariots with him :
and he rose by night ,
and smote the Edomites which compassed him about ,
and the captains of the chariots :
and the people fled into their tents .
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Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day .
Then Libnah revolted at the same time .
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And the rest of the acts of Joram ,
and all that he did ,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles dabar #
of the kings of Judah ?
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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 .
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In the twelfth sh @
nayim # #
H8141year of Joram the son of Ahab #
Ach #
ab #
king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign .
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Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign ;
and he reigned one year in Jerusalem .
And his mothers name was Athaliah ,
the daughter of Omri king of Israel Yisra #
el #.
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And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab #
Ach #
ab #,
and did evil in the sight of the LORD ,
as did the house of Ahab #
Ach #
ab #:
for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab #
Ach #
ab #.
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And he went with Joram the son of Ahab #
Ach #
ab #
to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead Ramowth #
Gil #
ad #;
and the Syrians wounded Joram .
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And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel Yizr @#
e #
l #
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 #
Ach #
ab #
in Jezreel Yizr @#
e #
l #,
because he was sick .