1 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.
2 So the woman got up and did as the man of God said; and she and the people of her house were living in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
3 And when the seven years were ended, the woman came back from the land of the Philistines and went to the king with a request for her house and her land.
4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, Now, give me an account of all the great things Elisha has done.
5 And while he was giving the king the story of how Elisha had given life to the dead, the woman whose son had come back to life came to the king with a request for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, My lord king, this is the woman and this is her son, whose life Elisha gave back to him.
6 And in answer to the king's questions, the woman gave him all the story. So the king gave orders to one of his unsexed servants, saying, Give her back all her property, and all the produce of her fields from the day when she went away from the land up till now.
7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, was ill; and they said to him, The man of God has come.
8 Then the king said to Hazael, Take an offering with you, and go to see the man of God and get directions from the Lord by him, saying, Am I going to get better from my disease?
9 So Hazael went to see him, taking with him forty camels with offerings on their backs of every sort of good thing from Damascus; and when he came before him, he said, Your son Ben-hadad, king of Aram, has sent me to you, saying, Will I get better from this disease?
10 And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You will certainly get better; but the Lord has made it clear to me that only death is before him.
11 And he kept his eyes fixed on him till he was shamed, and the man of God was overcome with weeping.
12 And Hazael said, Why is my lord weeping? Then he said in answer, Because I see the evil which you will do to the children of Israel: burning down their strong towns, putting their young men to death with the sword, smashing their little ones against the stones, and cutting open the women who are with child.
13 And Hazael said, How is it possible that your servant, who is only a dog, will do this great thing? And Elisha said, The Lord has made it clear to me that you will be king over Aram.
14 Then he went away from Elisha and came in to his master, who said to him, What did Elisha say to you? And his answer was, He said that you would certainly get well.
15 Now on the day after, Hazael took the bed-cover, and making it wet with water, put it over Ben-hadad's face, causing his death: and Hazael became king in his place.
16 In the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became king.
17 He was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.
18 He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
19 But it was not the Lord's purpose to send destruction on Judah, because of David his servant, to whom he had given his word that he would have a light for ever.
20 In his time, Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves.
21 Then Joram went over to Zair, with all his war-carriages; ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him, ... the captains of the war-carriages; and the people went in flight to their tents.
22 So Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah to this day. And at the same time, Libnah made itself free.
23 Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
24 And Joram went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David: and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.
25 In the twelfth year that Joram, the son of Ahab, was king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king;
26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri, king of Israel.
27 He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, and did evil in the eyes of the Lord as the family of Ahab did, for he was a son-in-law of the family of Ahab.
28 He went with Joram, the son of Ahab, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the Aramaeans.
29 So King Joram went back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the bowmen had given him at Ramah, when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram, the son of Ahab, in Jezreel, because he was ill.
1 Ora Eliseu havia falado àquela mulher cujo filho ele ressuscitara, dizendo: Levanta-te e vai, tu e a tua família, e peregrina onde puderes peregrinar; porque o Senhor chamou a fome, e ela virá sobre a terra por sete anos.
2 A mulher, pois, levantou-se e fez conforme a palavra do homem de Deus; foi com a sua família, e peregrinou na terra dos filisteus sete anos.
3 Mas ao cabo dos sete anos, a mulher voltou da terra dos filisteus, e saiu a clamar ao rei pela sua casa e pelas suas terras.
4 Ora, o rei falava a Geazi, o moço do homem de Deus, dizendo: Conta-me, peço-te, todas as grandes obras que Eliseu tem feito.
5 E sucedeu que, contando ele ao rei como Eliseu ressuscitara aquele que estava morto, eis que a mulher cujo filho ressuscitara veio clamar ao rei pela sua casa e pelas suas terras. Então disse Geazi: Ó rei meu senhor, esta é a mulher, e este o seu filho a quem Eliseu ressuscitou.
6 O rei interrogou a mulher, e ela lhe contou o caso. Então o rei lhe designou um oficial, ao qual disse: Faze restituir-lhe tudo quanto era seu, e todas as rendas das terras desde o dia em que deixou o país até agora.
7 Depois veio Eliseu a Damasco. E estando Ben-Hadade, rei da Síria, doente, lho anunciaram, dizendo: O homem de Deus chegou aqui.
8 Então o rei disse a Hazael: Toma um presente na tua mão, vai encontrar-te com o homem de Deus e por meio dele consulta ao Senhor, dizendo: Sararei eu desta doença?
9 Foi, pois, Hazael encontrar-se com ele, e levou consigo um presente, a saber, quarenta camelos carregados de tudo o que havia de bom em Damasco. Ao chegar, apresentou-se a ele e disse: Teu filho Ben-Hadade, rei da Síria, enviou-me a ti para perguntar: sararei eu desta doença?
10 Respondeu-lhe Eliseu: Vai e dize-lhe: Hás de sarar. Contudo o Senhor me mostrou que ele morrerá.
11 E olhou para Hazael, fitando nele os olhos até que este ficou confundido; e o homem de Deus chorou.
12 Então disse Hazael: Por que meu senhor está chorando? E ele disse: Porque sei o mal que hás de fazer aos filhos de Israel: Porás fogo às suas fortalezas, matarás à espada os seus mancebos, despedaçarás os seus pequeninos e fenderás as suas mulheres grávidas.
13 Ao que disse Hazael: Que é o teu servo, que não é mais do que um cão, para fazer tão grande coisa? Respondeu Eliseu: O Senhor mostrou-me que tu hás de ser rei da Síria.
14 Então apartou-se de Eliseu, e voltou ao seu senhor, o qual lhe perguntou: Que te disse Eliseu? Respondeu ele: Disse-me que certamente sararás.
15 Ao outro dia Hazael tomou um cobertor, molhou-o na água e o estendeu sobre o rosto do rei, de modo que este morreu. E Hazael reinou em seu lugar.
16 Ora, no ano quinto de Jorão, filho de Acabe, rei de Israel, Jeorão, filho de Jeosafá, rei de Judá, começou a reinar.
17 Tinha trinta e dois anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou oito anos em Jerusalém.
18 E andou no caminho dos reis de Israel, como também fizeram os da casa de Acabe, porque tinha por mulher a filha de Acabe; e fez o que era mau aos olhos do Senhor.
19 Todavia o Senhor não quis destruir a Judá, por causa de Davi, seu servo, porquanto lhe havia prometido que lhe daria uma lâmpada, a ele e a seus filhos, para sempre.
20 Nos seus dias os edomitas se rebelaram contra o domínio de Judá, e constituíram um rei para si.
21 Pelo que Jeorão passou a Zair, com todos os seus carros; e ele se levantou de noite, com os chefes dos carros, e feriu os edomitas que o haviam cercado; mas o povo fugiu para as suas tendas.
22 Assim os edomitas ficaram rebelados contra o domínio de Judá até o dia de hoje. Também Libna se rebelou nesse mesmo tempo.
23 O restante dos atos de Jeorão, e tudo quanto fez, porventura não estão escritos no livro das crônicas de Judá?
24 Jeorão dormiu com seus pais, e foi sepultado junto a eles na cidade de Davi. E Acazias, seu filho, reinou em seu lugar.
25 No ano doze de Jorão, filho de Acabe, rei de Israel, começou a reinar Acazias, filho de Jeorão, rei de Judá.
26 Acazias tinha vinte e dois anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou um ano em Jerusalém. O nome de sua mãe era Atalia; era neta de Onri, rei de Israel.
27 Ele andou no caminho da casa de Acabe, e fez o que era mau aos olhos do Senhor, como a casa de Acabe, porque era genro de Acabe.
28 Ora, ele foi com Jorão, filho de Acabe, a Ramote-Gileade, a pelejar contra Hazael, rei da Síria; e os sírios feriram a Jorão.
29 Então voltou o rei Jorão para se curar em Jizreel das feridas que os sírios lhe fizeram em Ramá, quando pelejou contra Hazael, rei da Síria; e desceu Acazias, filho de Jeorão, rei de Judá, para ver Jorão, filho de Acabe, em Jizreel, porquanto estava doente.