The Second Book Melakhim, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} Elisha said, Hear you the word of the LORD: thus says the
LORD, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be [sold]
for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of
Shomron. {7:2} Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered
the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD should make windows in
heaven, might this thing be? He said, Behold, you shall see it with
your eyes, but shall not eat of it. {7:3} Now there were four leprous
men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit
we here until we die? {7:4} If we say, We will enter into the city,
then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit
still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the
host of the Aram: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they
kill us, we shall but die. {7:5} They rose up in the twilight, to go
to the camp of the Aram; and when they were come to the outermost part
of the camp of the Aram, behold, there was no man there. {7:6} For the
Lord had made the host of the Aram to hear a noise of chariots, and a
noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to
another, Behold, the king of Yisra'el has hired against us the kings
of the Hitti, and the kings of the Mitzrim, to come on us. {7:7}
Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents,
and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled
for their life. {7:8} When these lepers came to the outermost part of
the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried
there silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it; and they
came back, and entered into another tent, and carried there also, and
went and hid it. {7:9} Then they said one to another, We aren't doing
right. This day is a day of good news, and we hold our shalom: if we
wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now
therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household. {7:10} So
they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them,
saying, We came to the camp of the Aram, and, behold, there was no man
there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys
tied, and the tents as they were. {7:11} He called the porters; and
they told it to the king's household within. {7:12} The king arose in
the night, and said to his servants, I will now show you what the Aram
have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone
out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they
come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.
{7:13} One of his servants answered, Please let some take five of the
horses that remain, which are left in the city (behold, they are as
all the multitude of Yisra'el who are left in it; behold, they are as
all the multitude of Yisra'el who are consumed); and let us send and
see. {7:14} They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king
sent after the host of the Aram, saying, Go and see. {7:15} They went
after them to the Yarden: and, behold, all the way was full of
garments and vessels, which the Aram had cast away in their haste. The
messengers returned, and told the king. {7:16} The people went out,
and plundered the camp of the Aram. So a measure of fine flour was
[sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel,
according to the word of the LORD. {7:17} The king appointed the
captain on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and
the people trod on him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had
said, who spoke when the king came down to him. {7:18} It happened, as
the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley
for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be
tomorrow about this time in the gate of Shomron; {7:19} and that
captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD
should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he said,
Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it:
{7:20} it happened even so to him; for the people trod on him in the
gate, and he died.
{8:1} Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored
to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn
wherever you can sojourn: for the LORD has called for a famine; and it
shall also come on the land seven years. {8:2} The woman arose, and
did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her
household, and sojourned in the land of the Pelishtim seven years.
{8:3} It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out
of the land of the Pelishtim: and she went forth to cry to the king
for her house and for her land. {8:4} Now the king was talking with
Gechazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Please tell me all the
great things that Elisha has done. {8:5} It happened, as he was
telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, that
behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the
king for her house and for her land. Gechazi said, My lord, O king,
this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
{8:6} When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king
appointed to 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} Elisha came to Dammesek; and Ben-Hadad the king
of Aram was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come
here. {8:8} The king said to Haza'el, Take a present in your hand, and
go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall
I recover of this sickness? {8:9} So Haza'el went to meet him, and
took a present with him, even of every good thing of Dammesek, forty
camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Your son
Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, Shall I recover of
this sickness? {8:10} Elisha said to him, Go, tell him, You shall
surely recover; however the LORD has shown me that he shall surely
die. {8:11} He settled his gaze steadfastly [on him], until he was
ashamed: and the man of God wept. {8:12} Haza'el said, Why weeps my
lord? He answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the
children of Yisra'el: their strongholds will you set on fire, and
their young men will you kill with the sword, and will dash in pieces
their little ones, and rip up their women with child. {8:13} Haza'el
said, But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do
this great thing? Elisha answered, the LORD has shown me that you
shall be king over Aram. {8:14} Then he departed from Elisha, and came
to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to you? He answered,
He told me that you would surely recover. {8:15} It happened on the
next day, that he took the coverlet, and dipped it in water, and
spread it on his face, so that he died: and Haza'el reigned in his
place. {8:16} In the fifth year of Yoram the son of Ach'av king of
Yisra'el, Yehoshafat being then king of Yehudah, Yehoram the son of
Yehoshafat king of Yehudah began to reign. {8:17} Thirty-two years old
was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in
Yerushalayim. {8:18} He walked in the way of the kings of Yisra'el, as
did the house of Ach'av: for he had the daughter of Ach'av as wife;
and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. {8:19}
However the LORD would not destroy Yehudah, for David his servant's
sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children
always. {8:20} In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of
Yehudah, and made a king over themselves. {8:21} Then Yoram passed
over to Tza`ir, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by
night, and struck the Edom who surrounded him, and the captains of the
chariots; and the people fled to their tents. {8:22} So Edom revolted
from under the hand of Yehudah to this day. Then did Livna revolt at
the same time. {8:23} The rest of the acts of Yoram, and all that he
did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Yehudah? {8:24} Yoram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David; and Achazyah his son reigned in his
place. {8:25} In the twelfth year of Yoram the son of Ach'av king of
Yisra'el did Achazyah the son of Yehoram king of Yehudah begin to
reign. {8:26} Twenty-two years old was Achazyah when he began to
reign; and he reigned one year in Yerushalayim. His mother's name was
`Atalyah the daughter of `Omri king of Yisra'el. {8:27} He walked in
the way of the house of Ach'av, and did that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ach'av; for he was the
son-in-law of the house of Ach'av. {8:28} He went with Yoram the son
of Ach'av to war against Haza'el king of Aram at Ramot-Gil`ad: and the
Aram wounded Yoram. {8:29} King Yoram returned to be healed in
Yizre`el of the wounds which the Aram had given him at Ramah, when he
fought against Haza'el king of Aram. Achazyah the son of Yehoram king
of Yehudah went down to see Yoram the son of Ach'av in Yizre`el,
because he was sick.
{9:1} Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets,
and said to him, Gird up your loins, and take this vial of oil in your
hand, and go to Ramot-Gil`ad. {9:2} When you come there, look out
there Yehu the son of Yehoshafat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and
make him arise up from among his brothers, and carry him to an inner
chamber. {9:3} Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and
say, Thus says the LORD, I have anointed you king over Yisra'el. Then
open the door, and flee, and don't wait. {9:4} So the young man, even
the young man the prophet, went to Ramot-Gil`ad. {9:5} When he came,
behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an
errand to you, captain. Yehu said, To which of us all? He said, To
you, O captain. {9:6} He arose, and went into the house; and he poured
the oil on his head, and said to him, Thus says the LORD, the God of
Yisra'el, I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, even
over Yisra'el. {9:7} You shall strike the house of Ach'av your 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 Izevel. {9:8} For the
whole house of Ach'av shall perish; and I will cut off from Ach'av
every man-child, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large
in Yisra'el. {9:9} I will make the house of Ach'av like the house of
Yarov`am the son of Nevat, and like the house of Ba`sha the son of
Achiyah. {9:10} The dogs shall eat Izevel in the portion of Yizre`el,
and there shall be none to bury her. He opened the door, and fled.
{9:11} Then Yehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said
to him, Is all well? why came this mad fellow to you? He said to them,
You know the man and what his talk was. {9:12} They said, It is false;
tell us now. He said, Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying, Thus says
the LORD, I have anointed you king over Yisra'el. {9:13} Then they
hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the
top of the stairs, and blew the [1>]shofar[<1], saying, Yehu is king.
{9:14} So Yehu the son of Yehoshafat the son of Nimshi conspired
against Yoram. (Now Yoram was keeping Ramot-Gil`ad, he and all
Yisra'el, because of Haza'el king of Aram; {9:15} but king Yoram was
returned to be healed in Yizre`el of the wounds which the Aram had
given him, when he fought with Haza'el king of Aram.) Yehu said, If
this be your mind, then let none escape and go forth out of the city,
to go to tell it in Yizre`el. {9:16} So Yehu rode in a chariot, and
went to Yizre`el; for Yoram lay there. Achazyah king of Yehudah was
come down to see Yoram. {9:17} Now the watchman was standing on the
tower in Yizre`el, and he spied the company of Yehu as he came, and
said, I see a company. Yoram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet
them, and let him say, Is it shalom? {9:18} So there went one on
horseback to meet him, and said, Thus says the king, Is it shalom?
Yehu said, What have you to do with shalom? turn you behind me. The
watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he isn't coming
back. {9:19} Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them,
and said, Thus says the king, Is it shalom? Yehu answered, What have
you to do with shalom? turn you behind me. {9:20} The watchman told,
saying, He came even to them, and isn't coming back: and the driving
is like the driving of Yehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives
furiously. {9:21} Yoram said, Make ready. They made ready his chariot.
Yoram king of Yisra'el and Achazyah king of Yehudah went out, each in
his chariot, and they went out to meet Yehu, and found him in the
portion of Navot the Yizre`eli. {9:22} It happened, when Yoram saw
Yehu, that he said, Is it shalom, Yehu? He answered, What shalom, so
long as the prostitution of your mother Izevel and her witchcraft
abound? {9:23} Yoram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Achazyah,
There is treachery, Achazyah. {9:24} Yehu drew his bow with his full
strength, and struck Yoram between his arms; and the arrow went out at
his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot. {9:25} Then said [Yehu] to
Bidgar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field
of Navot the Yizre`eli; for remember how that, when I and you rode
together after Ach'av his father, the LORD laid this burden on him:
{9:26} Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Navot, and the blood
of his sons, says the LORD; and I will requite you in this plat, says
the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat [of ground],
according to the word of the LORD. {9:27} But when Achazyah the king
of Yehudah saw this, he fled by the way of the Beit-Haggan. Yehu
followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot: [and they
struck him] at the ascent of Gur, which is by Yivle`am. He fled to
Megiddo, and died there. {9:28} His servants carried him in a chariot
to Yerushalayim, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the
city of David. {9:29} In the eleventh year of Yoram the son of Ach'av
began Achazyah to reign over Yehudah. {9:30} When Yehu was come to
Yizre`el, Izevel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired
her head, and looked out at the window. {9:31} As Yehu entered in at
the gate, she said, Is it shalom, you Zimri, your master's murderer?
{9:32} He lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my
side? who? There looked out to him two or three eunuchs. {9:33} 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 trod her under
foot. {9:34} When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said, See
now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.
{9:35} 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} Therefore they
came back, and told him. He said, This is the word of the LORD, which
he spoke by his servant Eliyah the Tishbi, saying, In the portion of
Yizre`el shall the dogs eat the flesh of Izevel; {9:37} and the body
of Izevel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of
Yizre`el, so that they shall not say, This is Izevel.
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Footnotes:
[1] {9:13} trumpet
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