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Kings -- 6{1}
And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we
dwell with thee is too strait for us. {2} Let us go, we pray thee,
unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there,
where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye. {3} And one said, Be content,
I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go. {4}
So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. {5}
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried,
and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed. {6} And the man of God
said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and
cast it in thither; and the iron did swim. {7} Therefore said he, Take
it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it. {8} Then the king
of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In
such and such a place shall be my camp. {9} And the man of God sent
unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither
the Syrians are come down. {10} And the king of Israel sent to the
place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there,
not once nor twice. {11} Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was
sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them,
Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel? {12} And
one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that
is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
{13} And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him.
And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan. {14} Therefore
sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night,
and compassed the city about. {15} And when the servant of the man
of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both
with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how
shall we do? {16} And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with
us are more than they that be with them. {17} And Elisha prayed, and
said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the
eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses
and chariots of fire round about Elisha. {18} And when they came down
to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee,
with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
{19} And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the
city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them
to Samaria. {20} And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria,
that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the
LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
{21} And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father,
shall I smite them? shall I smite them? {22} And he answered, Thou
shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with
thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat
and drink, and go to their master. {23} And he prepared great provision
for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went
to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
{24} And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered
all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. {25} And there was
a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head
was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's
dung for five pieces of silver. {26} And as the king of Israel was
passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord,
O king. {27} And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall
I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? {28} And
the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto
me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
{29} So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next
day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son. {30}
And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent
his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold,
he had sackcloth within upon his flesh. {31} Then he said, God do so
and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him
this day. {32} But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with
him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him,
he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away
mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at
the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him? {33} And
while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he
said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
Second Kings -- 7{1}
Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow
about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures
of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. {2} Then a lord on
whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD
would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt
see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. {3} And there were
four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another,
Why sit we here until we die? {4} If we say, We will enter into the
city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still
here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians:
if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
{5} And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians:
and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there
was no man there. {6} For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians
to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great
host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against
us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
{7} Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents,
and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their
life. {8} And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp,
they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and
gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another
tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it. {9} Then they said
one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold
our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us:
now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household. {10}
So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying,
We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither
voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
{11} And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
{12} And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will
now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore
are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they
come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city. {13}
And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of
the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the
multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the
multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see. {14}
They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the
Syrians, saying, Go and see. {15} And they went after them unto Jordan:
and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast
away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king. {16}
And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of
fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according
to the word of the LORD. {17} And the king appointed the lord on whose
hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in
the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came
down to him. {18} And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken
to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine
flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:
{19} And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the
LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold,
thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. {20}
And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he
died. Second
Kings -- 8{1}
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; and it shall also come upon the land seven
years. {2} 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. {3} 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. {4} 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. {5} 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. {6} 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. {7} And Elisha came to Damascus;
and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man
of God is come hither. {8} And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present
in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying,
Shall I recover of this disease? {9} So 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, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath
sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease? {10} And
Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit
the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die. {11} And he settled
his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
{12} And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know
the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: 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. {13} 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.
{14} 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. {15} 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. {16} And in the fifth year of Joram the
son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the
son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign. {17} Thirty and two
years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
{18} And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house
of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of
the LORD. {19} Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's
sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children. {20}
In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
{21} So Joram went over to Zair, 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. {22} Yet Edom
revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the
same time. {23} And 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?
{24} 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. {25}
In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son
of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign. {26} Two and twenty years
old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel. {27}
And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the
LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
{28} And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king
of Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram. {29} And
king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel 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 in Jezreel,
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