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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Woman from Shunem Returns</h3><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.1" class="v12_8_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Now Elisha had told the woman who lived in Shunem, whose son he had brought back to life, that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> was sending a famine on the land, which would last for seven years, and that she should leave with her family and go and live somewhere else. </span><span class="v12_8_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.2" class="v12_8_2">2</span>She had followed his instructions and had gone with her family to live in Philistia for the seven years.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.3" class="v12_8_3">3</span>At the end of the seven years she returned to Israel and went to the king to ask that her house and her land be restored to her. </span><span class="v12_8_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.4" class="v12_8_4">4</span>She found the king talking with Gehazi, Elisha's servant; the king wanted to know about Elisha's miracles. </span><span class="v12_8_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.5" class="v12_8_5">5</span>While Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought a dead person back to life, the woman made her appeal to the king. Gehazi said to him, “Your Majesty, here is the woman and here is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!” </span><span class="v12_8_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.6" class="v12_8_6">6</span>In answer to the king's question, she confirmed Gehazi's story, and so the king called an official and told him to give back to her everything that was hers, including the value of all the crops that her fields had produced during the seven years she had been away.</span></p><h3 class="s">Elisha and King Benhadad of Syria</h3><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.7" class="v12_8_7">7</span>Elisha went to Damascus at a time when King Benhadad of Syria was sick. When the king was told that Elisha was there, </span><span class="v12_8_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.8" class="v12_8_8">8</span>he said to Hazael, one of his officials, “Take a gift to the prophet and ask him to consult the <span class="nd">Lord</span> to find out whether or not I am going to get well.” </span><span class="v12_8_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.9" class="v12_8_9">9</span>So Hazael loaded forty camels with all kinds of the finest products of Damascus and went to Elisha. When Hazael met him, he said, “Your servant King Benhadad has sent me to ask you whether or not he will recover from his sickness.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.10" class="v12_8_10">10</span>Elisha answered, “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has revealed to me that he will die; but go to him and tell him that he will recover.” </span><span class="v12_8_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.11" class="v12_8_11">11</span>Then Elisha stared at him with a horrified look on his face until Hazael became ill at ease. Suddenly Elisha burst into tears. </span><span class="v12_8_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.12" class="v12_8_12">12</span>“Why are you crying, sir?” Hazael asked.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_12">“Because I know the horrible things you will do against the people of Israel,” Elisha answered. “You will set their fortresses on fire, slaughter their finest young men, batter their children to death, and rip open their pregnant women.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.13" class="v12_8_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “How could I ever be that powerful?” Hazael asked. “I'm a nobody!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_13">“The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has shown me that you will be king of Syria,” Elisha replied.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.14" class="v12_8_14">14</span>Hazael went back to Benhadad, who asked him, “What did Elisha say?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_14">“He told me that you would certainly get well,” Hazael answered. </span><span class="v12_8_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.15" class="v12_8_15">15</span>But on the following day Hazael took a blanket, soaked it in water, and smothered the king.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_15">And Hazael succeeded Benhadad as king of Syria.</span></p><h3 class="s">King Jehoram of Judah</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="2CH 21:1-20">2 Chronicles 21.1-20</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.16" class="v12_8_16">16</span>In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab as king of Israel,<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat became king of Judah </span><span class="v12_8_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.17" class="v12_8_17">17</span>at the age of thirty-two, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eight years. </span><span class="v12_8_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.18" class="v12_8_18">18</span>His wife was Ahab's daughter, and like the family of Ahab he followed the evil ways of the kings of Israel. He sinned against the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, </span><span class="v12_8_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.19" class="v12_8_19">19</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> but the <span class="nd">Lord</span> was not willing to destroy Judah, because he had promised his servant David that his descendants would always continue to rule.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_20"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.20" class="v12_8_20">20</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.20!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> During Jehoram's reign Edom revolted against Judah and became an independent kingdom. </span><span class="v12_8_21"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.21" class="v12_8_21">21</span>So Jehoram set out with all his chariots to Zair, where the Edomite army surrounded them. During the night he and his chariot commanders managed to break out and escape, and his soldiers scattered to their homes. </span><span class="v12_8_22"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.22" class="v12_8_22">22</span>Edom has been independent of<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.22!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Judah ever since. During this same period the city of Libnah also revolted.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_23"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.23" class="v12_8_23">23</span>Everything else that Jehoram did is recorded in <span class="bk">The History of the Kings of Judah</span>. </span><span class="v12_8_24"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.24" class="v12_8_24">24</span>Jehoram died and was buried in the royal tombs in David's City, and his son Ahaziah succeeded him as king.</span></p><h3 class="s">King Ahaziah of Judah</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="2CH 22:1-6">2 Chronicles 22.1-6</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_25"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.25" class="v12_8_25">25</span>In the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab as king of Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah </span><span class="v12_8_26"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.26" class="v12_8_26">26</span>at the age of twenty-two, and he ruled in Jerusalem for one year. His mother was Athaliah, the daughter of King Ahab and granddaughter of King Omri of Israel. </span><span class="v12_8_27"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.27" class="v12_8_27">27</span>Since Ahaziah was related to King Ahab by marriage, he sinned against the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, just as Ahab's family did.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_28"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.28" class="v12_8_28">28</span>King Ahaziah joined King Joram of Israel in a war against King Hazael of Syria. The armies clashed at Ramoth in Gilead, and Joram was wounded in battle. </span><span class="v12_8_29"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.29" class="v12_8_29">29</span>He returned to the city of Jezreel to recover from his wounds, and Ahaziah went there to visit him.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.16: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Israel; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Israel, Jehoshaphat being king of Judah.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.22: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">independent of; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">in revolt against.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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