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2 Kings 8 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Jehoram Restores the Shunammite’s Land

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Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise and go [fn]with your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn; for Yahweh has called for a famine, and it will even come on the land for seven years.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:2 - So the woman arose and did according to the word 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:3 - Now it happened at the end of seven years, that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went out to cry out to the king for her house and for her field.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:4 - Now the king was speaking with Gehazi, the young man of the man of God, saying, “Please recount to me all the great things that Elisha has done.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:5 - Now it happened as he was recounting to the king how he had restored to life the one who was dead, that behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life was crying out to the king for her house and for her field. 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6 - Then the king asked the woman, and she recounted it to him. So the king appointed for her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers and all the produce of the field from the day that she left the land even until now.”

Elisha Weeps over Hazael’s Evil

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Then Elisha came to Damascus. Now Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and it was told to him, saying, “The man of God has come here.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:8 - And the king said to Hazael, “Take a present in your hand and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, ‘Will I be restored to life from this sickness?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9 - So Hazael went to meet him and took a present in his hand, even every kind of good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ loads; and he came and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I be restored to life from this sickness?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:10 - Then Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him, ‘You will surely be restored to life,’ but Yahweh has shown me that he will certainly die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:11 - And he [fn]fixed his gaze steadily on him until he was ashamed, and the man of God wept.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - Then Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” Then he said, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their fortifications you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their infants you will dash in pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip up.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:13 - Then Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?” And Elisha [fn]answered, “Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:14 - So he went from Elisha and came to his master. And he said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he said, “He said to me that you would surely be restored to life.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:15 - Now it happened that on the following day, he took the cover and dipped it in water and spread it on his face; so he died. And Hazael became king in his place.

Jehoram Reigns over Judah

(2Ch 21:1–20 )

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Now in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then the king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah became king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:17 - He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:18 - And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab became his wife; and he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:19 - However, Yahweh was not willing to make Judah a ruin, for the sake of David His servant, since He had [fn]promised him to give a [fn]lamp to him through his sons always.

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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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:21 - Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him. And he arose by night and struck the Edomites who were surrounding him and the commanders of the chariots; but [fn]his army fled to their tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:22 - So Edom revolted [fn]against Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:23 - 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?

Ahaziah Reigns over Judah

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:24 - So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.
(2Ch 22:1–6 )

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In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah became king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:26 - Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:27 - He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, like the house of Ahab had done, because he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

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Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war with Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans struck Joram.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - So King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had caused by striking him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then 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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2 Kings Chapter 8 — Additional Translations:

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