8:1  Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had
restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine
household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the
LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the
land seven years.
 8:2  And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man
of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the
land of the Philistines seven years.
 8:3  And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the
woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went
forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
 8:4  And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of
God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that
Elisha hath done.
 8:5  And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he
had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman,
whose son he had restored to life, cried 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.
 8:6  And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the
king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all
that [was] hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day
that she left the land, even until now.
 8:7  And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of
Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is
come hither.
 8:8  And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine
hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by
him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
 8:9  So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him,
even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and
came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of
Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this
disease?
 8:10  And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest
certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath showed me that he
shall surely die.
 8:11  And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was
ashamed: and the man of God wept.
 8:12  And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered,
Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of
Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their
young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their
children, and rip up their women with child.
 8:13  And Hazael said, But what, [is] thy servant a dog, that
he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD
hath showed me that thou [shalt be] king over Syria.
 8:14  So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who
said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told
me [that] thou shouldest surely recover.
 8:15  And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick
cloth, and dipped [it] in water, and spread [it] on his face,
so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
 8:16  And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
Israel, Jehoshaphat [being] then king of Judah, Jehoram the son
of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
 8:17  Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign;
and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
 8:18  And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did
the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and
he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
 8:19  Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his
servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light,
[and] to his children.
 8:20  In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah,
and made a king over themselves.
 8:21  So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with
him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which
compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the
people fled into their tents.
 8:22  Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this
day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
 8:23  And 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?
 8:24  And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned
in his stead.
 8:25  In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to
reign.
 8:26  Two and twenty years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to
reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name [was] Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
 8:27  And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did
evil in the sight of the LORD, as [did] the house of Ahab: for
he [was] the son in law of the house of Ahab.
 8:28  And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war
against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians
wounded Joram.
 8:29  And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the
wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought
against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram
king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in
Jezreel, because he was sick.
 9:1  And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the
prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this
box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
 9:2  And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son
of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise
up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
 9:3  Then take the box of oil, and pour [it] on his head, and
say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over
Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
 9:4  So the young man, [even] the young man the prophet, went
to Ramothgilead.
 9:5  And when he came, behold, the captains of the host [were]
sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And
Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O
captain.
 9:6  And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the
oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD,
[even] over Israel.
 9:7  And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I
may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood
of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
 9:8  For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut
off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that
is shut up and left in Israel:
 9:9  And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son
of Ahijah:
 9:10  And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of
Jezreel, and [there shall be] none to bury [her]. And he opened
the door, and fled.
 9:11  Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and
[one] said unto him, [Is] all well? wherefore came this mad
[fellow] to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and
his communication.
 9:12  And they said, [It is] false; tell us now. And he said,
Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I
have anointed thee king over Israel.
 9:13  Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and
put [it] under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with
trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
 9:14  So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi
conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he
and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
 9:15  But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of
the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with
Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds,
[then] let none go forth [nor] escape out of the city to go to
tell [it] in Jezreel.
 9:16  So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for
Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see
Joram.
 9:17  And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and
he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a
company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet
them, and let him say, [Is it] peace?
 9:18  So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said,
Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu said, What hast
thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman
told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not
again.
 9:19  Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to
them, and said, Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu
answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
 9:20  And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them,
and cometh not again: and the driving [is] like the driving of
Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
 9:21  And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made
ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went
out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and
met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
 9:22  And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said,
[Is it] peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as
the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are
so] many?
 9:23  And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to
Ahaziah, [There is] treachery, O Ahaziah.
 9:24  And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote
Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart,
and he sunk down in his chariot.
 9:25  Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, [and]
cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite:
for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab
his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
 9:26  Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and
the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee
in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him
into the plat [of ground], according to the word of the LORD.
 9:27  But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw [this], he fled
by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him,
and said, Smite him also in the chariot. [And they did so] at
the going up to Gur, which [is] by Ibleam. And he fled to
Megiddo, and died there.
 9:28  And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem,
and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of
David.
 9:29  And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began
Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
 9:30  And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of
it]; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked
out at a window.
 9:31  And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, [Had]
Zimri peace, who slew his master?
 9:32  And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who
[is] on my side? who? And there looked out to him two [or]
three eunuchs.
 9:33  And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and
[some] of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the
horses: and he trode her under foot.
 9:34  And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said,
Go, see now this cursed [woman], and bury her: for she [is] a
king's daughter.
 9:35  And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her
than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.
 9:36  Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said,
This [is] the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant
Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall
dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
 9:37  And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the
face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they
shall not say, This [is] Jezebel.
 10:1  And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote
letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to
the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's [children],
saying,
 10:2  Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your
master's sons [are] with you, and [there are] with you chariots
and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
 10:3  Look even out the best and meetest of your master's
sons, and set [him] on his father's throne, and fight for your
master's house.
 10:4  But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two
kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
 10:5  And he that [was] over the house, and he that [was] over
the city, the elders also, and the bringers up [of the
children], sent to Jehu, saying, We [are] thy servants, and
will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king:
do thou [that which is] good in thine eyes.
 10:6  Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying,
If ye [be] mine, and [if] ye will hearken unto my voice, take
ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to
Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, [being]
seventy persons, [were] with the great men of the city, which
brought them up.
 10:7  And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that
they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put
their heads in baskets, and sent him [them] to Jezreel.
 10:8  And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They
have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye
them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the
morning.
 10:9  And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out,
and stood, and said to all the people, Ye [be] righteous:
behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who
slew all these?
 10:10  Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing
of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the
house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done [that] which he spake by
his servant Elijah.
 10:11  So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in
Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his
priests, until he left him none remaining.
 10:12  And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. [And]
as he [was] at the shearing house in the way,
 10:13  Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah,
and said, Who [are] ye? And they answered, We [are] the
brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of
the king and the children of the queen.
 10:14  And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive,
and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, [even] two and
forty men; neither left he any of them.
 10:15  And when he was departed thence, he lighted on
Jehonadab the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he
saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart
[is] with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be,
give [me] thine hand. And he gave [him] his hand; and he took
him up to him into the chariot.
 10:16  And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the
LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
 10:17  And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained
unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to
the saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
 10:18  And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said
unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve
him much.
 10:19  Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal,
all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for
I have a great sacrifice [to do] to Baal; whosoever shall be
wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did [it] in subtlety, to
the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
 10:20  And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And
they proclaimed [it].
 10:21  And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the
worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that
came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house
of Baal was full from one end to another.
 10:22  And he said unto him that [was] over the vestry, Bring
forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought
them forth vestments.
 10:23  And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into
the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal,
Search, and look that there be here with you none of the
servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.
 10:24  And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt
offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, [If]
any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, [he
that letteth him go], his life [shall be] for the life of him.
 10:25  And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of
offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to
the captains, Go in, [and] slay them; let none come forth. And
they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and
the captains cast [them] out, and went to the city of the house
of Baal.
 10:26  And they brought forth the images out of the house of
Baal, and burned them.
 10:27  And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down
the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
 10:28  Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
 10:29  Howbeit [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to
wit], the golden calves that [were] in Bethel, and that [were]
in Dan.
 10:30  And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done
well in executing [that which is] right in mine eyes, [and]
hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that [was] in
mine heart, thy children of the fourth [generation] shall sit
on the throne of Israel.
 10:31  But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD
God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the
sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
 10:32  In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and
Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
 10:33  From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the
Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer,
which [is] by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
 10:34  Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did,
and all his might, [are] they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 10:35  And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in
Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
 10:36  And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria
[was] twenty and eight years.
 11:1  And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son
was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
 11:2  But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of
Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from
among the king's sons [which were] slain; and they hid him,
[even] him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so
that he was not slain.
 11:3  And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six
years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
 11:4  And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the
rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and
brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a
covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of
the LORD, and showed them the king's son.
 11:5  And he commanded them, saying, This [is] the thing that
ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath
shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
 11:6  And a third part [shall be] at the gate of Sur; and a
third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the
watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
 11:7  And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath,
even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about
the king.
 11:8  And ye shall compass the king round about, every man
with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the
ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth
out and as he cometh in.
 11:9  And the captains over the hundreds did according to all
[things] that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took
every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with
them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada
the priest.
 11:10  And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give
king David's spears and shields, that [were] in the temple of
the LORD.
 11:11  And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his
hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple
to the left corner of the temple, [along] by the altar and the
temple.
 11:12  And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown
upon him, and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king,
and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God
save the king.
 11:13  And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and] of
the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
 11:14  And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a
pillar, as the manner [was], and the princes and the trumpeters
by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew
with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried,
Treason, Treason.
 11:15  But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the
hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have
her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill
with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain
in the house of the LORD.
 11:16  And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by
the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was
she slain.
 11:17  And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the
king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people;
between the king also and the people.
 11:18  And all the people of the land went into the house of
Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they
in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before
the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of
the LORD.
 11:19  And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains,
and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought
down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way
of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the
throne of the kings.
 11:20  And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city
was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword [beside]
the king's house.
 11:21  Seven years old [was] Jehoash when he began to reign.
 12:1  In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and
forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Zibiah of Beersheba.
 12:2  And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of
the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed
him.
 12:3  But the high places were not taken away: the people
still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
 12:4  And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the
dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD,
[even] the money of every one that passeth [the account], the
money that every man is set at, [and] all the money that cometh
into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
 12:5  Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of his
acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house,
wheresoever any breach shall be found.
 12:6  But it was [so, that] in the three and twentieth year of
king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the
house.
 12:7  Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and
the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the
breaches of the house? now therefore receive no [more] money of
your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the
house.
 12:8  And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of
the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
 12:9  But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole
in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right
side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests
that kept the door put therein all the money [that was] brought
into the house of the LORD.
 12:10  And it was [so], when they saw that [there was] much
money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest
came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was
found in the house of the LORD.
 12:11  And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of
them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of
the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders,
that wrought upon the house of the LORD,
 12:12  And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber
and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the
LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair
[it].
 12:13  Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD
bowls of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of
gold, or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought
into the house of the LORD:
 12:14  But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired
therewith the house of the LORD.
 12:15  Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose
hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for
they dealt faithfully.
 12:16  The trespass money and sin money was not brought into
the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
 12:17  Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against
Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to
Jerusalem.
 12:18  And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things
that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings
of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all
the gold [that was] found in the treasures of the house of the
LORD, and in the king's house, and sent [it] to Hazael king of
Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
 12:19  And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
 12:20  And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew
Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
 12:21  For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son
of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they
buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah
his son reigned in his stead.
 13:1  In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of
Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign
over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] seventeen years.
 13:2  And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which
made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
 13:3  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel,
and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria,
and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all [their]
days.
 13:4  And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened
unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king
of Syria oppressed them.
 13:5  (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went
out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of
Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
 13:6  Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the
house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, [but] walked therein:
and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)
 13:7  Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty
horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the
king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the
dust by threshing.
 13:8  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he
did, and his might, [are] they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 13:9  And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him
in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
 13:10  In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah
began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in
Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen years.
 13:11  And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel sin: [but] he walked therein.
 13:12  And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did,
and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of
Judah, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel?
 13:13  And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon
his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of
Israel.
 13:14  Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he
died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept
over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of
Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
 13:15  And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he
took unto him bow and arrows.
 13:16  And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon
the bow. And he put his hand [upon it]: and Elisha put his
hands upon the king's hands.
 13:17  And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened
[it]. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The
arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance
from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till
thou have consumed [them].
 13:18  And he said, Take the arrows. And he took [them]. And
he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he
smote thrice, and stayed.
 13:19  And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou
shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou
smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed [it]: whereas now thou
shalt smite Syria [but] thrice.
 13:20  And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of
the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
 13:21  And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that,
behold, they spied a band [of men]; and they cast the man into
the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and
touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his
feet.
 13:22  But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days
of Jehoahaz.
 13:23  And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion
on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant
with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them,
neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
 13:24  So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son
reigned in his stead.
 13:25  And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the
hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had
taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three
times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
 14:1  In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of
Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
 14:2  He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign,
and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
 14:3  And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all
things as Joash his father did.
 14:4  Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the
people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
 14:5  And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was
confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had
slain the king his father.
 14:6  But the children of the murderers he slew not: according
unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses,
wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be
put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death
for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his
own sin.
 14:7  He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and
took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this
day.
 14:8  Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of
Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look
one another in the face.
 14:9  And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of
Judah, saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the
cedar that [was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my
son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in
Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
 14:10  Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath
lifted thee up: glory [of this], and tarry at home: for why
shouldest thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldest fall,
[even] thou, and Judah with thee?
 14:11  But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of
Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one
another in the face at Bethshemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.
 14:12  And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they
fled every man to their tents.
 14:13  And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah,
the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came
to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the
gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
 14:14  And he took all the gold and silver, and all the
vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the
treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to
Samaria.
 14:15  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and
his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, [are]
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
 14:16  And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in
Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned
in his stead.
 14:17  And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after
the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen
years.
 14:18  And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 14:19  Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem:
and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and
slew him there.
 14:20  And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at
Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
 14:21  And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which [was]
sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father
Amaziah.
 14:22  He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that
the king slept with his fathers.
 14:23  In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king
of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to
reign in Samaria, [and reigned] forty and one years.
 14:24  And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
 14:25  He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of
Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the
LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant
Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which [was] of
Gathhepher.
 14:26  For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, [that it
was] very bitter: for [there was] not any shut up, nor any
left, nor any helper for Israel.
 14:27  And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name
of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of
Jeroboam the son of Joash.
 14:28  Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he
did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered
Damascus, and Hamath, [which belonged] to Judah, for Israel,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel?
 14:29  And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, [even] with the
kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.