Fifty men from the sons of the prophets came and stood facing them from a distance while the two of them stood by the Jordan.

Now, bring me a musician.”

While the musician played, the Lord’s hand came on Elisha.

Then he went up and lay on the boy: he put mouth to mouth, eye to eye, hand to hand. While he bent down over him, the boy’s flesh became warm.

While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “This disaster is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”

While he was telling the king how Elisha restored the dead son to life, the woman whose son he had restored to life came to appeal to the king for her house and field. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”

Elisha came to Damascus while Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and the king was told, “The man of God has come here.”

Then he set out and went on his way to Samaria. On the way, while he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,

Joash was in hiding with Jehosheba in the Lord’s temple six years while Athaliah ruled over the land.

The Lord afflicted the king, and he had a serious skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house, while Jotham, the king’s son, was over the household governing the people of the land.

One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. Then his son Esar-haddon became king in his place.

Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.