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2 Kings 8

The Shunammite woman returns after a seven-year famine and appeals for her house and land at the very moment Gehazi is telling the king how Elisha restored her son. Her property and lost produce are restored. Elisha then goes to Damascus. Hazael asks whether sick Ben-hadad will recover. Elisha says the illness itself is survivable but weeps because he knows Hazael will become king and brutally harm Israel. Hazael murders Ben-hadad. The chapter then records evil reigns in Judah tied by marriage to Ahab’s house.

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The Shunammite woman returns after a seven-year famine and appeals for her house and land at the very moment Gehazi is telling the king how Elisha restored her son. Her property and lost produce are restored. Elisha then goes to Damascus. Hazael asks whether sick Ben-hadad will recover. Elisha says the illness itself is survivable but weeps because he knows Hazael will become king and brutally harm Israel. Hazael murders Ben-hadad. The chapter then records evil reigns in Judah tied by marriage to Ahab’s house.

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Verses 1–6The Shunammite returns after famine and has her land restoredVerses 7–15Elisha foretells Ben-hadad’s death and Hazael’s rule over SyriaVerses 16–24Jehoram reigns wickedly in JudahVerses 25–29Ahaziah reigns in Judah and joins Joram in war against Hazael
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1Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had…2And the woman arose, and did after the saying of…3And it came to pass at the seven years' end,…4And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the…5And it came to pass, as he was telling the…6And when the king asked the woman, she told him.…7And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of…8And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in…9So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present…10And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou…11And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed:…12And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered,…13And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog,…14So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master;…15And it came to pass on the morrow, that he…16And in the fifth year of Joram the son of…17Thirty and two years old was he when he began…18And he walked in the way of the kings of…19Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his…20In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of…21So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots…22Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto…23And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all…24And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with…25In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab…26Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began…27And he walked in the way of the house of…28And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to…29And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel…