1 Ora Eliseu tinha dito à mulher, cujo filho ele havia restaurado à vida: Levanta-te, vai com os de tua casa a peregrinar onde puderes; porque Jeová chamou a fome, que virá sobre a terra por sete anos.
2 Levantou-se a mulher, e fez conforme a palavra do homem de Deus; e indo com os de sua casa, peregrinou sete anos na terra dos filisteus.
3 Ao cabo dos sete anos a mulher voltou da terra dos filisteus; e saiu para rogar ao rei sobre a sua casa e sobre as suas terras.
4 O rei falava com Geazi, servo do homem de Deus, dizendo: Conta-me todas as grandes obras que Eliseu tem feito.
5 Referindo ele ao rei como Eliseu havia restaurado a vida àquele que estava morto, a mulher, cujo filho ele havia restaurado à vida, apareceu rogando ao rei sobre a sua casa e sobre as suas terras. Disse Geazi: Ó rei meu senhor, esta é a mulher e este é seu filho, a quem Eliseu restaurou à vida.
6 O rei interrogou à mulher, e ela lhe fez a narrativa. Então o rei lhe deu um eunuco, dizendo: Faze restituir-lhe tudo o que era seu, e todos os frutos do campo desde o dia em que ela deixou a terra até agora.
7 Veio Eliseu a Damasco. Ben-Hadade, rei da Síria, estava doente; e lho anunciaram, dizendo: O homem de Deus é chegado aqui.
8 Disse o rei a Hazael: Toma presentes contigo, e vai ao encontro do homem de Deus e, por ele, consulta a Jeová, perguntando: Hei de eu sarar desta doença?
9 Foi Hazael ao encontro dele, levando consigo um presente de quarenta camelos carregados com todas as boas coisas de Damasco. Chegou, apresentou-se diante dele e disse: Teu filho Ben-Hadade, rei da Síria, enviou-me a ti para perguntar: Hei de eu sarar desta doença?
10 Respondeu-lhe Eliseu: Vai, dize-lhe: Hás de sarar; contudo Jeová me mostrou que ele há de morrer.
11 Olhou para Hazael, fitando nele os olhos, até que este ficou envergonhado; e o homem de Deus chorou.
12 Perguntou-lhe Hazael: Por que chora o meu senhor? Respondeu ele: 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 rasgarás os ventres de suas mulheres grávidas.
13 Tornou Hazael: Mas que é o teu servo, este cão, para fazer tão grande coisa? Respondeu Eliseu: Jeová mostrou-me que tu serás rei da Síria.
14 Então deixou a Eliseu e veio ao seu amo que lhe perguntou: Que te disse Eliseu? Respondeu ele: Disse-me que havias de sarar.
15 Ao outro dia tomou Hazael o cobertor, mergulhou-o em água e estendeu-o sobre o rosto do rei, que morreu. Em seu lugar reinou Hazael.
16 No quinto ano de Jorão, filho de Acabe, rei de Israel, reinando Josafá em Judá, começou a reinar Jeorão, filho de Josafá, rei de Judá.
17 Tinha trinta e dois anos quando começou a reinar; e reinou oito anos em Jerusalém.
18 Andou nos caminhos dos reis de Israel, como o fez a casa de Acabe (porque tinha por mulher a filha de Acabe); e fez o mal à vista de Jeová.
19 Todavia Jeová não quis destruir a Judá por causa do seu servo Davi, conforme a promessa que lhe havia feito de dar para sempre uma lâmpada a seus filhos.
20 Nos seus dias rebelou-se Edom para não estar debaixo do poder de Judá, e constituiu para si um rei.
21 Então Jorão passou a Zair, e com ele todos os seus carros. Ele se levantou de noite e feriu os edomitas que o cercaram e os capitães dos carros; o povo fugiu para as suas tendas.
22 Assim se rebelou Edom para não estar debaixo do poder de Judá até o dia de hoje. Rebelou-se Libna ao mesmo tempo.
23 O restante dos atos de Jorão e tudo o que ele fez, porventura não estão escritos no livro das crônicas dos reis de Judá?
24 Jorão adormeceu com seus pais, e foi sepultado com eles na cidade de Davi. Em seu lugar reinou seu filho Acazias.
25 No ano duodécimo 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. Sua mãe chamava-se Atalia, filha de Onri, rei de Israel.
27 Ele andou no caminho da casa de Acabe e fez o mal à vista de Jeová, como o fez a casa de Acabe; porque era genro da casa de Acabe.
28 Ele marchou com Jorão, filho de Acabe, a pelejar contra Hazael, rei da Síria, em Ramote-Gileade; e os siros feriram a Jorão.
29 Então o rei Jorão voltou para se curar em Jezreel das feridas que os siros lhe fizeram em Ramá, quando pelejava contra Hazael, rei da Síria. Acazias, filho de Jeorão, rei de Judá, desceu para visitar em Jezreel a Jorão, filho de Acabe, que estava doente.
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.