2 Kings 8
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Then Elisha spoke to the woman a whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise and go, you and your household, and stay wherever you can; for the LORD b has called for a c famine, and furthermore, it will come upon the land for seven years."
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So the woman arose and did according to the saying of the man of God, and she went with her household and dwelt in the land of the Philistines seven years.
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It came to pass, at the end of seven years, that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went to make an appeal to the king for her house and for her land.
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Then the king talked with d Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, "Tell me, please, all the great things Elisha has done."
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Now it happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored the dead to life, that there was the woman whose son he had e restored to life, appealing to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life."
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And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed a certain officer for her, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the land until now."
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Then Elisha went to Damascus, and f BenHadad king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, "The man of God has come here."
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And the king said to g Hazael, h "Take a present in your hand, and go to meet the man of God, and i inquire of the LORD by him, saying, 'Shall I recover from this disease?' "
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So j Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, of every good thing of Damascus, forty camel-loads; and he came and stood before him, and said, "Your son BenHadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, 'Shall I recover from this disease?' "
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And Elisha said to him, "Go, say to him, 'You shall certainly recover.' However the LORD has shown me that k he will really die."
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Then he set his countenance in a stare until he was ashamed; and the man of God l wept.
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And Hazael said, "Why is my lord weeping?" He answered, "Because I know m the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: Their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword; and you n will dash their children, and rip open their women with child."
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So Hazael said, "But what o is your servant - a dog, that he should do this gross thing?" And Elisha answered, p "The LORD has shown me that you will become king over Syria."
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Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" And he answered, "He told me you would surely recover."
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But it happened on the next day that he took a thick cloth and dipped it in water, and spread it over his face so that he died; and Hazael reigned in his place.
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Now q in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoshaphat having been king of Judah, r Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat began to reign as king of Judah.
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He was s thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
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And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for t the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
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Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah, for the sake of His servant David, u as He promised him to give a lamp to him and his sons forever.
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In his days v Edom revolted against Judah's authority, w and made a king over themselves.
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So Joram went to Zair, and all his chariots with him. Then he rose by night and attacked the Edomites who had surrounded him and the captains of the chariots; and the troops fled to their tents.
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Thus Edom has been in revolt against Judah's authority to this day. x And Libnah revolted at that time.
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Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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So Joram rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. Then y Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
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In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign.
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Ahaziah was z twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri, king of Israel.
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a And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, like the house of Ahab, for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
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Now he went b with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at c Ramoth Gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
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Then d King Joram went back to Jezreel to recover from the wounds which the Syrians had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. e And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
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2 Kings 4:18
And the child grew. Now it happened one day that he went out to his father, to the reapers.
2 Kings 4:31 - 35
Now Gehazi went on ahead of them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice nor hearing. Therefore he went back to meet him, and told him, saying, "The child has not awakened.
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Psalms 105:16
Moreover He called for a famine in the land; He destroyed all the provision of bread.
Haggai 1:11
"For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands."
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2 Samuel 21:1
Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, " It is because of Saul and his bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites.
1 Kings 18:2
So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab; and there was a severe famine in Samaria.
2 Kings 4:38
And Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. Now the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, "Put on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.
2 Kings 6:25
And there was a great famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.
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2 Kings 4:12
Then he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite woman." When he had called her, she stood before him.
2 Kings 5:20 - 27
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Look, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, while not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as the LORD lives, I will run after him and take something from him.
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2 Kings 4:35
He returned and walked back and forth in the house, and again went up and stretched himself out on him; then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
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2 Kings 6:24
And it happened after this that BenHadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
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1 Kings 19:15
Then the LORD said to him: "Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria.
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1 Samuel 9:7
Then Saul said to his servant, "But look, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread in our vessels is all gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?
1 Kings 14:3
"Also take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you what will become of the child."
2 Kings 5:5
Then the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So he departed and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
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2 Kings 1:2
Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria, and was injured; so he sent messengers and said to them, "Go, inquire of BaalZebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.
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1 Kings 19:15
Then the LORD said to him: "Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria.
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2 Kings 8:15
But it happened on the next day that he took a thick cloth and dipped it in water, and spread it over his face so that he died; and Hazael reigned in his place.
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Luke 19:41
Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it.
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2 Kings 10:32
In those days the LORD began to cut off parts o...
2 Kings 12:17
Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against...
2 Kings 13:3
Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against ...
2 Kings 13:7
For He left of the army of Jehoahaz only fifty ...
Amos 1:3
Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions o...
Amos 1:4
But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael...
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2 Kings 15:16
Then from Tirzah, Menahem attacked Tiphsah, all who were there, and its territory. Because they did not surrender, therefore he attacked it. All the women there who were with child he ripped open.
Hosea 13:16
Samaria is held guilty, For she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, And their women with child ripped open.
Amos 1:13
Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of the people of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead, That they might enlarge their territory.
Nahum 3:10
Yet she was carried away, She went into captivity; Her young children also were dashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound in chains.
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1 Samuel 17:43
So the Philistine said to David, " Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
2 Samuel 9:8
Then he bowed himself, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look upon such a dead dog as I?
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1 Kings 19:15
Then the LORD said to him: "Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria.
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2 Kings 1:17
So Ahaziah died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. Because he had no son, Jehoram became king in his place, in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.
2 Kings 3:1
Now Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel at Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
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2 Chronicles 21:3
Their father gave them great gifts of silver and gold and precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.
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2 Chronicles 21:5 - 10
Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 8:26
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri, king of Israel.
2 Kings 8:27
And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, like the house of Ahab, for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
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2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
1 Kings 11:36
And to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My name there.
1 Kings 15:4
Nevertheless for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by setting up his son after him and by establishing Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 21:7
Yet the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that He had made with David, and since He had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.
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Genesis 27:40
By your sword you shall live, And you shall serve your brother; And it shall come to pass, when you become restless, That you shall break his yoke from your neck.
2 Chronicles 21:8 - 10
In his days Edom revolted against Judah's authority, and made a king over themselves.
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1 Kings 22:47
There was then no king in Edom, only a deputy of the king.
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Joshua 21:13
Thus to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), Libnah with its common-land.
2 Kings 19:8
Then the Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.
2 Chronicles 21:10
Thus Edom has been in revolt against Judah's authority to this day. At that time Libnah revolted against his rule, because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
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2 Chronicles 22:1
Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, for the raiders who came with the Arabians into the camp had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, reigned.
2 Chronicles 22:7
His going to Joram was God's occasion for Ahaziah's downfall; for when he arrived, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
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2 Chronicles 22:2
Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri.
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2 Chronicles 22:3
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother advised him to do wickedly.
2 Chronicles 22:4
Therefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD, like the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
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2 Chronicles 22:5
He also followed their advice, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
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1 Kings 22:3
And the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, but we hesitate to take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?
1 Kings 22:29
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.
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2 Kings 9:15
But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds which the Syrians had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, "If you are so minded, let no one leave or escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.
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2 Kings 9:16
So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was laid up there; and Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
2 Chronicles 22:6
Then he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds which he had received at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
2 Chronicles 22:7
His going to Joram was God's occasion for Ahaziah's downfall; for when he arrived, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
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