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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>2 Kings 8 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_kings/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > 2 Kings 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/7.htm" title="2 Kings 7">◄</a> 2 Kings 8 <a href="../2_kings/9.htm" title="2 Kings 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/2_kings/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Shunammite’s Land is Restored</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Meanwhile, Elisha urged the woman whose son he had restored to life, “You must get up and leave with your household to go live wherever you can, because the LORD has called for a famine, and it’s going to come over the land for seven years.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So the woman followed the instructions given to her by the man of God, and she went to the territory of the Philistines to live for seven years with her household. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>At the end of the seven years, the woman returned from the territory of the Philistines and went to the king in order to file an appeal regarding her house and her grain field.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The king was talking with Gehazi, the attendant of the man of God. He had asked Gehazi, “Please tell me about all of the great things that Elisha has done.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Just as he was telling the king about Elisha’s having restored the dead to life, the woman whose son had been restored arrived and appealed to the king for her house and her land!</p> <p class="reg">Gehazi told the king, “Your majesty, this is the woman! And here’s her son, whom Elisha restored to life!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The king consulted with the woman, who related the story. So the king appointed a court official to represent her and ordered him: “Restore to her everything that belonged to her, including all of the produce that her fields yielded from the day she left the land until now.”</p> <p class="heading">The Murder of King Ben-hadad of Aram</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Later on, Elisha traveled to Damascus. King Ben-hadad of Aram was ill, but someone informed him, “The man of God has come here!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift with you and go meet the man of God. Inquire of the LORD through him and ask, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So Hazael went out to meet with him and took a gift with him—40 camel loads filled with samples of everything good in Damascus. He approached the man of God<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:9 Lit. approached him">a</a></span> and said, “Your son King Ben-hadad from Aram has sent me to you to ask you, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But Elisha told him, “Go tell him, ‘You will certainly recover,’ but the LORD has shown me that he will certainly die.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Elisha<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:11 Lit. he">b</a></span> looked steadily at Hazael<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:11 The Heb. lacks at Hazael">c</a></span> until Hazael grew ashamed, and then the man of God began to cry.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Why are you crying, sir?” Hazael asked.</p> <p class="reg">“Because I know the evil that you’re about to bring on the Israelis,” he replied. “You’ll burn down their fortified cities, execute their young men with swords, dash to pieces their little ones, and you’ll tear open their pregnant women!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But Hazael responded, “What? Who am I, your servant, that I should do such a horrible thing?”</p> <p class="reg">But Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So he left Elisha and returned to his master, who asked him, “What did Elisha tell you?”</p> <p class="reg">He replied, “He told me that you would certainly get better.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But the very next day, Hazael<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:15 Lit. he">d</a></span> grabbed a thick covering, soaked it in water, and spread it over the king’s<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:15 Lit. over his">e</a></span> face, and he suffocated.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:15 Lit. died">f</a></span> Then Hazael succeeded Ben-hadad<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:15 Lit. succeeded him">g</a></span> as king.</p> <p class="heading">Jehoram Comes to the Throne of Judah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Sometime during the fifth year of the reign of Ahab’s son Joram, king of Israel (while Jehoshaphat was still ruling as king of Judah), Jehoshaphat’s son Jehoram ascended to the throne of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He was 32 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eight years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He lived his life like the kings of Israel did, following the example of Ahab’s household when he married Ahab’s daughter and practiced what was evil in the LORD’s presence.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:18 Lit. sight">h</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But the LORD remained unwilling to destroy Judah for the sake of his servant David, since he had promised to keep<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:19 Lit. give">i</a></span> David’s lamp burning brightly through his descendants every day.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>During Jehoram’s lifetime, Edom rebelled from Judah’s hegemony and appointed a king to rule over themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Joram crossed over to Zair, along with all of his chariots. At night he attacked the Edomites who had surrounded him and the commanders of his chariots, but the army<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:21 Lit. people">j</a></span> ran away to their tents. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Edom remains in rebellion against Judah to this day, and Libnah revolted at the same time. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The rest of the official<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:23 The Heb. lacks official">k</a></span> acts of Joram, along with everything else that he did, are recorded in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:23 An ancient chronicle of Israel, apparently now lost; and so throughout the book">l</a></span> are they not?</p> <p class="heading">Ahaziah Succeeds Jehoram</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>After Joram was laid to rest with his ancestors in the City of David, his son Ahaziah replaced him as king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Joram’s son Ahaziah began to reign as king of Judah during the twelfth year of the reign of Ahab’s son Joram, king of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Ahaziah was 22 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for one year.</p> <p class="reg">His mother was named Athaliah. She was the granddaughter of Omri, king of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Ahaziah lived his life following the example of Ahab’s household, practicing what the LORD considered to be evil, just like the household of Ahab, because he was a son-in-law to Ahab’s household. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>He joined Ahab’s son Joram in an attack on King Hazael of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and that’s where the Arameans wounded Joram. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then King Joram retreated to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah during the battle against King Hazael of Aram. Jehoram’s son Ahaziah, king of Judah, went to visit Ahab’s son Joram in Jezreel because Joram was sick.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:29 i.e. during Joram’s recovery from his battle wounds">m</a></span> </p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 8:9 Lit. <i>approached him</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 8:11 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 8:11 The Heb. lacks <i>at Hazael</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 8:15 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 8:15 Lit. <i>over his</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 8:15 Lit. <i>died</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 8:15 Lit. <i>succeeded him</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 8:18 Lit. <i>sight</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 8:19 Lit. <i>give</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 8:21 Lit. <i>people</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 8:23 The Heb. lacks <i>official</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 8:23 An ancient chronicle of Israel, apparently now lost; and so throughout the book<br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 8:29 i.e. during Joram’s recovery from his battle wounds<br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_kings/7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_kings/9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/2_kings/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>