1 In die drie en twintigste jaar van Joas, die seun van Ah sia, die koning van Juda, het Joahas, die seun van Jehu, koning geword oor Israel in Samar¡a -- sewentien jaar lank.

2 En hy het gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE, en agter die sondes van Jerobeam, die seun van Nebat, wat Israel laat sondig het, aan geloop; hy het daar nie van afgewyk nie.

3 Daarom het die toorn van die HERE teen Israel ontvlam, sodat Hy hulle oorgegee het in die hand van H sael, die koning van Aram, en in die hand van B,nhadad, die seun van H sael, al die dae.

4 Maar Joahas het die aangesig van die HERE om genade gesmeek. Toe verhoor die HERE hom, want Hy het die verdrukking van Israel gesien, dat die koning van Aram hulle verdruk.

6 Nogtans het hulle nie afgewyk van die sondes van die huis van Jerobeam wat Israel laat sondig het nie; hy het daarin gewandel, en selfs die heilige boomstam het in Samar¡a bly staan.

7 Voorwaar, hy het vir Joahas geen manskappe laat oorbly nie, as net vyftig perderuiters en tien strydwaens en tien duisend voetgangers; want die koning van Aram het hulle omgebring en hulle gemaak soos stof as gedors word.

8 En die verdere geskiedenis van Joahas en alles wat hy gedoen het, en sy magtige dade, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Israel nie?

9 En Joahas het ontslaap met sy vaders en is in Samar¡a begrawe, en sy seun Joas het in sy plek koning geword.

10 In die sewe en dertigste jaar van Joas, die koning van Juda, het Joas, die seun van Joahas, koning geword oor Israel in Samar¡a -- sestien jaar lank.

11 En hy het gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE; hy het nie afgewyk van al die sondes van Jerobeam, die seun van Nebat, wat Israel laat sondig het nie; hy het daarin gewandel.

12 En die verdere geskiedenis van Joas en alles wat hy gedoen het, en sy magtige dade, hoe hy teen Am sia, die koning van Juda, geveg het, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Israel nie?

13 En Joas het ontslaap met sy vaders, en Jerobeam het op sy troon gaan sit; en Joas is begrawe in Samar¡a by die konings van Israel.

14 En toe El¡sa siek was aan die siekte waaraan hy sou sterwe, het Joas, die koning van Israel, afgekom na hom en oor hom geween en gesê: My vader, my vader, wa van Israel en sy ruiters!

15 Daarop sê El¡sa vir hom: Neem 'n boog en pyle. En hy het vir hom 'n boog en pyle geneem.

16 En hy sê vir die koning van Israel: Sit jou hand aan die boog. En hy het sy hand aan die boog gesit; en El¡sa het sy hande op die hande van die koning gelê.

17 Verder sê hy: Maak oop die venster na die ooste toe! En hy het dit oopgemaak. En El¡sa sê: Skiet! En hy het geskiet. Toe sê hy: 'n Pyl van oorwinning van die HERE en 'n pyl van oorwinning op Aram: jy moet die Arameërs volkome verslaan in Afek.

18 Verder sê hy: Neem die pyle. En hy het dit geneem. Toe sê hy vir die koning van Israel: Slaan teen die grond! En hy het drie maal geslaan en opgehou.

19 Daarop word die man van God baie kwaad vir hom en sê: Jy moes vyf of ses maal geslaan het; dan sou jy die Arameërs volkome verslaan het; maar nou sal jy die Arameërs drie maal verslaan.

20 Daarna het El¡sa gesterwe, en hulle het hom begrawe. En die bendes van die Moabiete het die land ingekom met die ingang van die jaar.

21 En terwyl hulle besig was om 'n man te begrawe, sien hulle meteens die bende; daarom het hulle die man in die graf van El¡sa gegooi; en toe die man met die gebeente van El¡sa in aanraking kom, het hy lewendig geword en opgestaan op sy voete.

22 En H sael, die koning van Aram, het Israel verdruk al die dae van Joahas.

23 Maar die HERE was hulle genadig en het Hom oor hulle ontferm en Hom tot hulle gewend ter wille van sy verbond met Abraham, Isak en Jakob; en Hy wou hulle nie vernietig en tot nog toe nie van sy aangesig wegwerp nie.

24 En H sael, die koning van Aram, het gesterwe; en sy seun B,nhadad het in sy plek koning geword.

25 En Joas, die seun van Joahas, het weer die stede uit die hand van B,nhadad, die seun van H sael, teruggeneem wat hy aan sy vader Joahas in die oorlog ontruk het; Joas het hom drie maal verslaan en die stede van Israel herower.

1 In the twenty-third year of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for seventeen years.

2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do; he did not keep himself from them.

3 So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the power of Hazael, king of Aram, and into the power of Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, again and again.

4 Then Jehoahaz made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord gave ear to him, for he saw how cruelly Israel was crushed by the king of Aram.

5 (And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, so that they became free from the hands of the Aramaeans; and the children of Israel were living in their tents as in the past.

6 But still they did not give up the sin of Jeroboam, which he made Israel do, but went on with it; and there was an image of Asherah in Samaria.)

7 For out of all his army, Jehoahaz had only fifty horsemen and ten carriages and ten thousand footmen; the king of Aram had given them up to destruction, crushing them like dust.

8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all he did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

9 And Jehoahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Joash his son became king in his place.

10 In the thirty-seventh year of the rule of Joash, king of Judah, Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for sixteen years.

11 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do, but he went on with it.

12 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all he did, and the force with which he went to war against Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

13 And Joash went to rest with his fathers and Jeroboam took his place as king; and Joash was put into the earth in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

14 Now Elisha became ill with the disease which was the cause of his death: and Joash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said, My father, my father, the war-carriages of Israel and its horsemen!

15 Then Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows: and he took bow and arrows.

16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow: and he put his hand on it; and Elisha put his hands on the king's hands.

17 Then he said; Let the window be open to the east: and he got it open. Then Elisha said, Let the arrow go; and he let it go. And he said, The Lord's arrow of salvation, of salvation over Aram; for you will overcome the Aramaeans in Aphek and put an end to them.

18 And he said, Take the arrows: and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, Send them down into the earth; and he did so three times and no more.

19 Then the man of God was angry with him and said, If you had done it five or six times, then you would have overcome Aram completely; but now you will only overcome them three times.

20 And death came to Elisha and they put his body into the earth. Now in the spring of the year, armed bands of Moabites frequently came, overrunning the land.

21 And while they were putting a dead man into the earth, they saw a band coming; and they put the man quickly into the place where Elisha's body was; and the dead man, on touching Elisha's bones, came to life again, and got up on his feet.

22 And Israel was crushed under the power of Hazael, king of Aram, all the days of Jehoahaz.

23 But the Lord was kind to them and had pity on them, caring for them, because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; he would not put them to destruction or send them away from before his face till now.

24 Then Hazael, king of Aram, came to his end; and Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.

25 And Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, took again from Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, the towns which he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Jehoash overcame him and got back the towns of Israel.