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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 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">CEV</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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">The Woman from Shunem Is Given Back Her Land</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> Elisha told the woman whose son he had brought back to life,<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.1!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has warned that there will be no food here for seven years. Take your family and go live somewhere else for a while.” </span><span class="v12_8_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.2" class="v12_8_2">2</span>The woman did exactly what Elisha had said and went to live in Philistine territory.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_2">She and her family lived there seven years. </span><span class="v12_8_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.3" class="v12_8_3">3</span>Then she returned to Israel and immediately begged the king to give back her house and property.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.4" class="v12_8_4">4</span>Meanwhile, the king was asking Gehazi the servant of Elisha about the amazing things Elisha had been doing. </span><span class="v12_8_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.5" class="v12_8_5">5</span>While Gehazi was telling him that Elisha had brought a dead boy back to life, the woman and her son arrived.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_5">“Here's the boy, Your Majesty,” Gehazi said. “And this is his mother.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.6" class="v12_8_6">6</span>The king asked the woman to tell her story, and she told him everything that had happened. He then said to one of his officials, “I want you to make sure that this woman gets back everything that belonged to her, including the money her crops have made since the day she left Israel.”</span></p><h3 class="s1">Hazael Kills Benhadad</h3><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.7" class="v12_8_7">7</span>Some time later Elisha went to the capital city of Damascus to visit King Benhadad of Syria, who was sick. And when Benhadad was told he 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,<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.8!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> “Go meet with Elisha the man of God and get him to ask the <span class="nd">Lord</span> if I will get well. And take along a gift for him.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.9" class="v12_8_9">9</span>Hazael left with forty camel loads of the best things made in Damascus as a gift for Elisha. He found the prophet and said, “Your servant, King Benhadad, wants to know if he will get well.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.10" class="v12_8_10">10</span>“Tell him he will,” Elisha said to Hazael. “But the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has already told me that Benhadad will definitely die.” </span><span class="v12_8_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.11" class="v12_8_11">11</span>Elisha stared at him until Hazael was embarrassed, then Elisha began crying.<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.12" class="v12_8_12">12</span>“Sir, why are you crying?” Hazael asked.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_12">Elisha answered, “Because I know the terrible things you will do to the people of Israel. You will burn down their walled cities and slaughter their young men. You will even crush the heads of their babies 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 do anything like that?” Hazael replied. “I'm only a servant and don't have that kind of power.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_13">“Hazael, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has told me that you will be the next king of Syria.”</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 and told him, “Elisha said that you will get well.” </span><span class="v12_8_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.15" class="v12_8_15">15</span>But the very next day, Hazael got a thick blanket; he soaked it in water and held it over Benhadad's face until he died. Hazael then became king.</span></p><h3 class="s1">King Jehoram of Judah</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="2CH 21:2-20">2 Chronicles 21.2-20</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.16" class="v12_8_16">16</span>Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat became king of Judah in Joram's fifth year as king of Israel, while Jehoshaphat was still king of Judah.<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v12_8_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.17" class="v12_8_17">17</span>Jehoram was 32 years old when he became king, and he ruled 8 years from Jerusalem.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.18" class="v12_8_18">18</span>Jehoram disobeyed the <span class="nd">Lord</span> by doing wrong. He married Ahab's daughter and was as sinful as Ahab's family and the kings of Israel. </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> refused to destroy Judah, because he had promised his servant David that someone from his family would always rule in Judah.</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> While Jehoram was king, the people of Edom rebelled and chose their own king. </span><span class="v12_8_21"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.21" class="v12_8_21">21</span>So Jehoram<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.21!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and his cavalry marched to Zair, where the Edomite army surrounded him and his commanders. During the night he attacked the Edomites, but he was defeated, and his troops escaped to their homes.<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.21!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v12_8_22"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.22" class="v12_8_22">22</span>Judah was never able to regain control of Edom. Even the town of Libnah<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.22!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> rebelled at that time.</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 Jehoram did while he was king is written 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 beside his ancestors in Jerusalem.<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.24!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> His son Ahaziah then became king.</span></p><h3 class="s1">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>Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah in the twelfth year of Joram's rule in Israel. </span><span class="v12_8_26"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.26" class="v12_8_26">26</span>Ahaziah was 22 years old when he became king, and he ruled from Jerusalem for only one year. His mother was Athaliah, a 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 Ahab's family,<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.8.27!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> he acted just like them and disobeyed the <span class="nd">Lord</span> by doing wrong.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_8_28"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.28" class="v12_8_28">28</span>Ahaziah went with King Joram of Israel to attack King Hazael and the Syrian troops at Ramoth in Gilead. Joram was wounded in that battle, </span><span class="v12_8_29"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.8.29" class="v12_8_29">29</span>so he went to the town of Jezreel to recover. Ahaziah went there to visit him.</span></p></div> </div> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Elisha … life: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 4.8-37.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Hazael: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probably one of Benhadad's officials.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.11 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Elisha stared … crying: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “Hazael stared at him until Elisha was embarrassed and began to cry.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.16 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">while Jehoshaphat … Judah: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">In biblical times, a father and son would sometimes rule as kings at the same time. That way, when the father died, his son would already have control of the kingdom.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.21 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Jehoram: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “Joram,” another spelling of the name.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.21 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">he attacked … homes: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.22 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Even the town of Libnah: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This was a town on the border between Philistia and Judah, which means that Jehoram was facing rebellion on two sides of his kingdom.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.24 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Jerusalem: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “the city of David.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.27 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Since … family: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Ahaziah's mother was Ahab's daughter (see verse 18).</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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