¹Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life , saying , “Arise , and go , you and your household , and stay for a while wherever you can ; for the LORD has called for a famine . It will also come on the land for seven years .”

²The woman arose , and did according to the man of God’s word . She went with her household , and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years .

³At the end of seven years , the woman returned from the land of the Philistines . Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land .

⁴Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying , “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done .”

⁵As he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead , behold , the woman whose son he had restored to life begged the king for her house and for her land . Gehazi said, “My lord, O king , this is the woman , and this is her son , whom Elisha restored to life .”

⁶When the king asked the woman, she told him . So the king appointed to 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 .”

⁷Elisha came to Damascus ; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick . He was told , “The man of God has come here .”

⁸The king said to Hazael , “Take a present in your hand , and go meet the man of God , and enquire of the LORD by him , saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness ?’”

⁹So 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, “Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you , saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness ?’”

¹⁰Elisha said to him , “Go , tell him , ‘You will surely recover ;’ however the LORD has shown me that he will surely die .”

¹¹He settled his gaze steadfastly on him , until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept .

¹²Hazael said, “Why do you weep , my lord?”

He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel . You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword , and will dash their little ones in pieces , and rip up their pregnant women .”

¹³Hazael said , “But what is your servant , who is but a dog , that he could do this great thing ?”

Elisha answered , “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”

¹⁴Then he departed from Elisha , and came to his master, who said to him , “What did Elisha say to you ?”

He answered, “He told me that you would surely recover .”

¹⁵On the next day , he took a thick cloth , dipped it in water , and spread it on the king ’s face , so that he died . Then Hazael reigned in his place .

¹⁶In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel , Jehoshaphat being king of Judah then , Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign .

¹⁷He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign . He reigned eight years in Jerusalem .

¹⁸He walked in the way of the kings of Israel , as did Ahab’s house , for he married Ahab’s daughter . He did that which was evil in the LORD ’s sight .

¹⁹However, the LORD would not destroy Judah , for David his servant ’s sake , as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always .

²⁰In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah , and made a king over themselves .

²¹Then Joram crossed over to Zair , and all his chariots with him ; and he rose up by night and struck the Edomites who surrounded him with the captains of the chariots ; and the people fled to their tents.

²²So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day . Then Libnah revolted at the same time .

²³The rest of the acts of Joram , and all that he did , aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ?

²⁴Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David ’s city ; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place .

²⁵In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel , Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign .

²⁶Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign ; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem . His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel .

²⁷He walked in the way of Ahab’s house and did that which was evil in the LORD ’s sight , as did Ahab’s house , for he was the son-in-law of Ahab’s house .

²⁸He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead , and the Syrians wounded Joram .

²⁹King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah , when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram , king of Judah , went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel , because he was sick .