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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" /><title>2 Kings 8 NLT</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="../">NLT</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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/2_kings/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Woman from Shunem Returns Home</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Elisha had told the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “Take your family and move to some other place, for the LORD has called for a famine on Israel that will last for seven years.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So the woman did as the man of God instructed. She took her family and settled in the land of the Philistines for seven years.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>After the famine ended she returned from the land of the Philistines, and she went to see the king about getting back her house and land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>As she came in, the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God. The king had just said, “Tell me some stories about the great things Elisha has done.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Gehazi was telling the king about the time Elisha had brought a boy back to life. At that very moment, the mother of the boy walked in to make her appeal to the king about her house and land.</p><p class="reg">“Look, my lord the king!” Gehazi exclaimed. “Here is the woman now, and this is her son—the very one Elisha brought back to life!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Is this true?” the king asked her. And she told him the story. So he directed one of his officials to see that everything she had lost was restored to her, including the value of any crops that had been harvested during her absence.</p><p class="hdg">Hazael Murders Ben-Hadad</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Elisha went to Damascus, the capital of Aram, where King Ben-hadad lay sick. When someone told the king that the man of God had come, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift to the man of God. Then tell him to ask the LORD, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So Hazael loaded down forty camels with the finest products of Damascus as a gift for Elisha. He went to him and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad, the king of Aram, has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Elisha replied, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover.’ But actually the LORD has shown me that he will surely die!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Elisha stared at Hazael<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> with a fixed gaze until Hazael became uneasy.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> Then the man of God started weeping.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“What’s the matter, my lord?” Hazael asked him.</p><p class="reg">Elisha replied, “I know the terrible things you will do to the people of Israel. You will burn their fortified cities, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little children to the ground, and rip 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>Hazael responded, “How could a nobody like me<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> ever accomplish such great things?”</p><p class="reg">Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you are going to be the king of Aram.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When Hazael left Elisha and went back, the king asked him, “What did Elisha tell you?”</p><p class="reg">And Hazael replied, “He told me that you will surely recover.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But the next day Hazael took a blanket, soaked it in water, and held it over the king’s face until he died. Then Hazael became the next king of Aram.</p><p class="hdg">Jehoram Rules in Judah</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Jehoram son of King Jehoshaphat of Judah began to rule over Judah in the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But Jehoram followed the example of the kings of Israel and was as wicked as King Ahab, for he had married one of Ahab’s daughters. So Jehoram did what was evil in the LORD’s sight. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But the LORD did not want to destroy Judah, for he had promised his servant David that his descendants would continue to rule, shining like a lamp forever.</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 reign, the Edomites revolted against Judah and crowned their own king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So Jehoram<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> went with all his chariots to attack the town of Zair.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> The Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, but he went out at night and attacked them<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> under cover of darkness. But Jehoram’s army deserted him and fled to their homes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So Edom has been independent from Judah to this day. The town of Libnah also revolted about that same time.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The rest of the events in Jehoram’s reign and everything he did are recorded in <span class="it">The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When Jehoram died, he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. Then his son Ahaziah became the next king.</p><p class="hdg">Ahaziah Rules in Judah</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Ahaziah son of Jehoram began to rule over Judah in the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother was Athaliah, a granddaughter of King Omri of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Ahaziah followed the evil example of King Ahab’s family. He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, just as Ahab’s family had done, for he was related by marriage to the family of Ahab.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Ahaziah joined Joram son of Ahab in his war against King Hazael of Aram at Ramoth-gilead. When the Arameans wounded King Joram in the battle, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had received at Ramoth.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> Because Joram was wounded, King Ahaziah of Judah went to Jezreel to visit him.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:11a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">He stared at him.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:11b </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:13 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">a dog.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:21a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Joram,</span><span class="ft"> a variant spelling of Jehoram; also in 8:23, 24.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:21b </span><span class="ft">Greek version reads </span><span class="it">Seir.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:21c </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">he went out and escaped.</span><span class="ft"> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:29 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Ramah,</span><span class="ft"> a variant spelling of Ramoth.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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