2 Kings 8 (NET)

2 Kings 8:1¹Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 4:31-35Hag 1:11Ps 105:16Ruth 1:12 Kgs 4:18Gen 12:101 Kgs 17:11 Kgs 18:2Gen 41:27-28Lev 26:26

2 Kings 8:2²So the woman did as the prophet said. She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 5:81 Sam 27:1-3Judg 3:3

2 Kings 8:3³After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 4:132 Kgs 6:262 Kgs 8:62 Sam 14:4Jer 22:16Luke 18:3-5Ps 82:3-4

2 Kings 8:4⁴Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 5:20-272 Kgs 2:142 Kgs 2:20-222 Kgs 2:242 Kgs 3:14-162 Kgs 4:122 Kgs 4:16-172 Kgs 4:3-62 Kgs 5:142 Kgs 6:17-20

2 Kings 8:5⁵While Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman, and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 4:35Matt 10:29-301 Sam 26:172 Kgs 6:26Acts 8:27-40Eccl 9:11Esth 5:14Esth 6:11-12Prov 16:9Ps 145:1

2 Kings 8:6⁶The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 16:7Prov 21:12 Sam 9:71 Chr 28:12 Kgs 9:32Deut 22:2Gen 37:36Judg 11:13

2 Kings 8:7⁷Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king was told, “The prophet has come here.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:242 Kgs 6:241 Kgs 20:11 Kgs 13:11 Kgs 15:181 Kgs 20:342 Kgs 1:9-102 Kgs 2:152 Kgs 6:12Acts 17:6

2 Kings 8:8⁸So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 19:152 Kgs 1:21 Sam 9:71 Kgs 14:1-41 Kgs 19:172 Kgs 1:62 Kgs 3:11-132 Kgs 5:5Acts 16:30Luke 13:23

2 Kings 8:9⁹So Hazael went to visit Elisha. He took along a gift, as well as forty camel-loads of all the fine things of Damascus. When he arrived, he stood before him and said, “Your son, King Ben Hadad of Syria, has sent me to you with this question, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 19:151 Sam 25:82 Kgs 13:142 Kgs 16:72 Kgs 5:132 Kgs 5:52 Kgs 6:21Phlm 1:14

2 Kings 8:10¹⁰Elisha said to him, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover,’ but the Lord has revealed to me that he will surely die.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 22:152 Kgs 1:162 Kgs 1:42 Kgs 8:13-15Amos 3:7Amos 7:1Amos 7:4Amos 7:7Amos 8:1Ezek 11:25

2 Kings 8:11¹¹Elisha just stared at him until Hazael became uncomfortable. Then the prophet started crying.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 19:41Jer 4:19Jer 9:18Ps 119:136Rom 9:22 Kgs 2:17Acts 20:19Acts 20:31Gen 45:2Jer 13:17

2 Kings 8:12¹²Hazael asked, “Why are you crying, my master?” He replied, “Because I know the trouble you will cause the Israelites. You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, smash their children to bits, and rip open their pregnant women.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 13:16Nah 3:102 Kgs 15:162 Kgs 12:172 Kgs 13:3Amos 1:13Isa 13:162 Kgs 13:72 Kgs 10:32-33Hos 10:14

2 Kings 8:13¹³Hazael said, “How could your servant, who is as insignificant as a dog, accomplish this great military victory?” Elisha answered, “The Lord has revealed to me that you will be the king of Syria.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 17:431 Kgs 19:152 Sam 9:82 Kgs 8:10Matt 7:6Mic 2:1Ps 22:16Ps 22:20Isa 56:10-11Jer 17:9

2 Kings 8:14¹⁴He left Elisha and went to his master. Ben Hadad asked him, “What did Elisha tell you?” Hazael replied, “He told me you would surely recover.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 8:102 Kgs 5:25Matt 26:16

2 Kings 8:15¹⁵The next day Hazael took a piece of cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over Ben Hadad’s face until he died. Then Hazael replaced him as king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 8:131 Kgs 11:26-371 Kgs 15:281 Kgs 16:101 Kgs 16:181 Kgs 19:151 Sam 16:12-131 Sam 24:131 Sam 24:4-71 Sam 26:9-11

2 Kings 8:16¹⁶In the fifth year of the reign of Israel’s King Joram, son of Ahab, Jehoshaphat’s son Jehoram became king over Judah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 1:172 Kgs 3:11 Kgs 22:502 Chr 21:1-20

2 Kings 8:17¹⁷He was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 21:5-10

2 Kings 8:18¹⁸He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. He did evil in the sight of the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 8:261 Kgs 11:1-51 Kgs 21:251 Kgs 22:52-532 Chr 18:12 Chr 19:22 Chr 21:132 Chr 21:62 Chr 22:1-42 Kgs 21:13

2 Kings 8:19¹⁹But the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah. He preserved Judah for the sake of his servant David to whom he had promised a perpetual dynasty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:362 Sam 7:12-132 Sam 7:15Hos 11:9Isa 37:35Luke 1:32-331 Kgs 15:4-52 Chr 21:72 Kgs 19:342 Sam 21:17

2 Kings 8:20²⁰During his reign Edom freed themselves from Judah’s control and set up their own king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 22:472 Kgs 3:92 Kgs 3:272 Kgs 8:222 Chr 21:8-102 Sam 8:14Gen 27:40

2 Kings 8:21²¹Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites, who had surrounded him, attacked at night and defeated him and his chariot officers. The Israelite army retreated to their homeland.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 18:17

2 Kings 8:22²²So Edom has remained free from Judah’s control to this very day. At that same time Libnah also rebelled.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:8Josh 21:13Gen 27:402 Chr 21:10

2 Kings 8:23²³The rest of the events of Jehoram’s reign, including a record of his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:411 Kgs 14:291 Kgs 15:232 Chr 21:11-202 Kgs 15:362 Kgs 15:6

2 Kings 8:24²⁴Jehoram passed away and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. His son Ahaziah replaced him as king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 21:12 Chr 21:172 Chr 22:62 Chr 25:231 Chr 3:111 Kgs 11:431 Kgs 14:201 Kgs 14:311 Kgs 2:102 Chr 21:20-22:1

2 Kings 8:25²⁵In the twelfth year of the reign of Israel’s King Joram, son of Ahab, Jehoram’s son Ahaziah became king over Judah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 9:292 Chr 21:20-22:62 Kgs 8:16-17

2 Kings 8:26²⁶Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter of King Omri of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 22:22 Chr 22:5-82 Kgs 11:12 Kgs 11:13-162 Kgs 9:21-27

2 Kings 8:27²⁷He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty and did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he was related to Ahab’s family.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 22:3-42 Cor 6:14-172 Kgs 8:18Eccl 7:26

2 Kings 8:28²⁸He joined Ahab’s son Joram in a battle against King Hazael of Syria at Ramoth Gilead in which the Syrians defeated Joram.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 22:51 Kgs 19:171 Kgs 22:291 Kgs 22:3-41 Kgs 4:132 Chr 18:2-32 Chr 18:312 Chr 19:22 Kgs 3:72 Kgs 8:12-13

2 Kings 8:29²⁹King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. King Ahaziah son of Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was ill.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 9:15-161 Kgs 22:342 Chr 22:5-72 Kgs 8:28