2 Kings 8 - English Standard Version (ESV)

The Shunammite's Land Restored

8 Now Elisha had said to the woman ^(A)whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord ^(B)has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for ^(C)seven years.” ²So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. ³And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land. ⁴Now the king was talking with ^(D)Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.” ⁵And while he was telling the king how ^(E)Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life.” ⁶And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now.”

Hazael Murders Ben-hadad

⁷Now Elisha came to ^(F)Damascus. ^(G)Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick. And when it was told him, “The man of God has come here,” ⁸the king said to ^(H)Hazael, ^(I)“Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God, ^(J)and inquire of the Lord through him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’” ⁹So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camels' loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, ^(K)“Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’” ¹⁰And Elisha said to him, ^(L)“Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover,’ but^[a] the Lord has shown me that ^(M)he shall certainly die.” ¹¹And he fixed his gaze and stared at him, ^(N)until he was embarrassed. And the man of God wept. ¹²And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know ^(O)the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword ^(P)and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.” ¹³And Hazael said, “What is your servant, ^(Q)who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?” Elisha answered, ^(R)“The Lord has shown me that you are to be king over Syria.” ¹⁴Then he departed from Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he answered, “He told me ^(S)that you would certainly recover.” ¹⁵But the next day he took the bed cloth^[b] and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Hazael became king in his place.

Jehoram Reigns in Judah

¹⁶In the fifth year of ^(T)Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah,^[c] Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, began to reign. ¹⁷He was ^(U)thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. ¹⁸And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for ^(V)the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. ¹⁹Yet the Lord was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, ^(W)since he promised to give ^(X)a lamp to him and to his sons forever.

²⁰In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up ^(Y)a king of their own. ²¹Then Joram^[d] passed over to Zair with all his chariots and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, but his army ^(Z)fled home. ²²^(AA)So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then ^(AB)Libnah revolted at the same time. ²³Now 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? ²⁴So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried ^(AC)with his fathers in the city of David, and ^(AD)Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

Ahaziah Reigns in Judah

²⁵^(AE)In the ^(AF)twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign. ²⁶Ahaziah was ^(AG)twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah; she was ^(AH)a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel. ²⁷He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was son-in-law to the house of Ahab.

²⁸He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against ^(AI)Hazael king of Syria at ^(AJ)Ramoth-gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram. ²⁹^(AK)And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at ^(AL)Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And ^(AM)Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

Footnotes

2 Kings 8:10 Some manuscripts say, ‘You shall certainly not recover,’ for
2 Kings 8:15 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
2 Kings 8:16 Septuagint, Syriac lack when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah
2 Kings 8:21 Joram is an alternate spelling of Jehoram (the son of Jehoshaphat) as in verse 16; also verses 23, 24

Cross references

2 Kings 8 - Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

8 And Elisha spake unto the woman whose son he had revived, saying, `Rise and go, thou and thy household, and sojourn where thou dost sojourn, for Jehovah hath called for a famine, and also, it is coming unto the land seven years.' 2 And the woman riseth, and doth according to the word of the man of...
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2 Kings 8 - Wycliffe Bible (WYC)

8 Forsooth Elisha spake to the woman, whose son he made to live, and said, Rise thou, and go, both thou and thine house, and go in pilgrimage/and make pilgrimage, wherever thou shalt find it best; for the Lord shall call hunger, and it shall come upon the land seven years. (For Elisha spoke to the w...
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2 Kings 8 - World English Bible (WEB)

8 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.” 2 The woman arose, and did according to the man of God’s ...
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2 Kings 8 - The Voice (VOICE)

8 Elisha went and warned the mother of the boy whom he had brought back to life.Elisha: Get up and gather together your family and servants. Travel as far away from here as you can, and live as a resident alien. The Eternal is going to cause a great famine in the land for the next seven years. 2 The...
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2 Kings 8 - Tree of Life Version (TLV)

The Shunammite’s Land Restored8 Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life saying, “Arise and go with your household, and stay wherever you can stay, because Adonai has called for a famine—indeed it has already come—on the land for seven years.” 2 So the woman arose and did acc...
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2 Kings 8 - Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

The Shunammite Woman’s Land Restored8 Now Eli′sha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can; for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.” 2 So the woman arose, and did accor...
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2 Kings 8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV)

2 Kings 8 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

The Shunammite Woman’s Land Restored8 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Get up and go with your household, and settle wherever you can; for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come on the land for seven years.” 2 So the woman got up and did according to ...
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2 Kings 8 - New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)

The Shunammite Woman’s Land Restored8 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, ‘Get up and go with your household, and settle wherever you can; for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come on the land for seven years.’ 2 So the woman got up and did according to ...
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2 Kings 8 - New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)

2 Kings 8 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

The Shunammite Woman’s Land Restored8 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Get up and go with your household and settle wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come on the land for seven years.”(A)2 So the woman got up and did according to ...
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2 Kings 8 - New Living Translation (NLT)

The Woman from Shunem Returns Home8 Elisha had told the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “Take your family and move to some other place, for the Lord has called for a famine on Israel that will last for seven years.” 2 So the woman did as the man of God instructed. She took her family an...
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2 Kings 8 - New Life Version (NLV)

The Shunammite’s Land Given Back8 Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had brought back to life. He said, “Get ready and go with those of your house. Stay in whatever country you can. For the Lord has called for a time of no food. It will come upon the land for seven years.” 2 So the woman go...
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2 Kings 8 - New King James Version (NKJV)

The King Restores the Shunammite’s Land8 Then Elisha spoke to the woman (A)whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise and go, you and your household, and stay wherever you can; for the Lord (B)has called for a (C)famine, and furthermore, it will come upon the land for seven years.” 2 So the ...
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2 Kings 8 - New International Version - UK (NIVUK)

The Shunammite’s land restored8 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, ‘Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the Lord has decreed a famine in the land that will last seven years.’ 2 The woman proceeded to do as the man of God said. She...
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2 Kings 8 - New International Version (NIV)

The Shunammite’s Land Restored8 Now Elisha had said to the woman(A) whose son he had restored to life, “Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the Lord has decreed a famine(B) in the land that will last seven years.”(C) 2 The woman proceeded to do as the man of God s...
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2 Kings 8 - New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

The Woman From Shunem Gets Her Land Back8 Elisha had brought a woman’s son back to life. He had said to her, “Go away with your family. Stay for a while anywhere you can. The Lord has decided that there won’t be enough food in the land. That will be true for seven years.” 2 The woman did just as th...
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2 Kings 8 - New English Translation (NET)

Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman8 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while,[a] for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.” 2 So the woman did as the prophet said....
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