2Kings:13:14-25
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Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die .
Then Joash the king of Israel came down to him ,
and wept over his face ,
and said , "
O my father ,
my father ,
the chariots of Israel and their horsemen !"
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And Elisha said to him , "
Take a bow and some arrows ."
So he took himself a bow and some arrows .
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Then he said to the king of Israel , "
Put your hand on the bow ."
So he put his hand on it ,
and Elisha put his hands on the king '
s hands .
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And he said , "
Open the east window ";
and he opened it .
Then Elisha said , "
Shoot ";
and he shot .
And he said , "
The arrow of the LORD '
s deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria ;
for you must strike the Syrians at Aphek till you have destroyed them ."
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Then he said , "
Take the arrows ";
so he took them .
And he said to the king of Israel , "
Strike the ground ";
so he struck three times ,
and stopped .
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And the man of God was angry with him ,
and said , "
You should have struck five or six times ;
then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed it !
But now you will strike Syria only three times ."
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Then Elisha died ,
and they buried him .
And the raiding bands from Moab invaded the land in the spring of the year .
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So it was ,
as they were burying a man ,
that suddenly they spied a band of raiders ;
and they put the man in the tomb of Elisha ;
and when the man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha ,
he revived and stood on his feet .
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And Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz .
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But the LORD was gracious to them ,
had compassion on them ,
and regarded them ,
because of His covenant with Abraham ,
Isaac ,
and Jacob ,
and would not yet destroy them or cast them from His presence .
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Now Hazael king of Syria died .
Then Ben-Hadad his son reigned in his place .
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And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz recaptured from the hand of Ben-Hadad ,
the son of Hazael ,
the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war .
Three times Joash defeated him and recaptured the cities of Israel .
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