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After this, Jehoram ascended to the throne during the second year of the reign of Jehoshaphat's son Jehoram from Judah. He took the place of Ahaziah, who had no son. The rest of Ahaziah's activities are recorded in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel, are they not?

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After they crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I may do for you before I am taken away from you." Then Elisha said, "Please let there come to me a double portion of your spirit."

Verse Conceptsequipping, spiritualDouble PortionsDoubled Over

After this, Elisha gripped his clothes that he was wearing, tore them apart into two pieces, picked up Elijah's ornamented cloak that had fallen from him, and went back to stand on the bank of the Jordan River.

Elisha took hold of Elijah's ornamental cloak that had been left behind, struck the water, and cried out: "Where is the LORD God of Elijah?" All of a sudden, after he had struck the water, the water divided into two parts! One side of the river stood opposite the other, and Elisha crossed over.

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersMiracles Of ElishaDivision Of WatersWaters DividedWhere Is God?

But when they kept on requesting him, he was shamed and said, Send, then. So they sent fifty men; but after searching for three days, they came back without having seen him.

Verse ConceptsembarrassmentFiftiesThree DaysNot Finding

He replied, “Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it.”

After they had brought him one,

Verse ConceptsUnused

And the water was healthsome ever after according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Bad KidsPlaces To This Day

After this, he left from there to go to Mt. Carmel, and from there he went back to Samaria.

After Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom set out. After they had traveled their indirect route for seven days, they had no water for the army or their animals.

Verse ConceptsWaterDry PlacesSeven DaysNo Water For People

Then he said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Dig ditch after ditch in this wadi.’

Verse ConceptsFurrows

So he took his firstborn son, whom he intended to reign after him, and offered him up as a burnt offering on the wall. There subsequently came great anger against Israel, so they abandoned the attack and returned to their homeland.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeSanctity Of LifeWallsIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfSacrificing The FirstbornSacrifice

And come in and shut the door after thee and after thy sons, and thou shalt pour into all these vessels, and the full thou shalt remove.

Verse ConceptsShutting DoorsPraying Behind Closed Doors

So she left.

After she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing her containers, and she kept pouring.

But he replied, "There isn't even one pot left." Then the oil stopped flowing. After this, she went and told the man of God what had happened. So he said, "Go sell the oil, pay your debt, and you and your children will be able to live on the proceeds."

Verse ConceptsTradeDebtMoney ManagementSaving Money

Now there came a day when Elisha went to Shunem, and there was a woman of high position living there, who made him come in and have a meal with her. And after that, every time he went by, he went into her house for a meal.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsHospitalityTravellers

And she said to her husband, Now I see that this is a holy man of God, who comes by day after day.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual DiscernmentSpiritual PerceptionSpecific Holy IndividualsMan Of GodGodly WomanGodly Man

"Call her," Elisha ordered. After he called her, she came and stood in the doorway,

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.

Verse ConceptsTime Of YearMan's Words Fulfilled

After the child had grown up a bit, one day he went out to visit his father, who was with the harvesters.

Verse ConceptsReapers

And she will go up and lay him down upon the bed of the man of God, and she will shut up after her and go forth.

Verse ConceptsMan Of God

Then the mother of the boy said, "{As Yahweh lives} and {as your soul lives}, I will surely not leave you." So he got up and went after her.

Verse ConceptsBeing A MotherCompanionshipMothers Love For Her Children

And he will go in and shut the door after them two, and he will pray to Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsShutting DoorsWhere To PrayPraying Behind Closed Doors

Then he came back, and after walking once through the house and back, he went up, stretching himself out on the child seven times; and the child's eyes became open.

Verse ConceptsNosesPersonal ContactSeven TimesSneezingReceiving Sight

But the king of Israel, after reading the letter, was greatly troubled and said, Am I God, to give death and life? why does this man send a leper to me to be made well? is it not clear that he is looking for a cause of war?

Verse ConceptsLiteracyGod Giving LifeGod KillingThose Who Tore ClothesGod In Relation To ManGod KillsMan's Relation To God

And Elisha sent a servant to him, saying, Go to Jordan, and after washing seven times in its waters your flesh will be well again and you will be clean.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutBodyMedicineMessengerRivers And StreamsWashingMiracles Of ElishaSeven TimesIn The Jordan

So he said to him, “Go in peace.”

After Naaman had traveled a short distance from Elisha,

Verse ConceptsPeople Not Far Awayspringtime

But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him."

Verse ConceptsLove, Abuse OfIndividuals RunningExemptGreedservanthood

So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, "Is all well?"

Verse ConceptsChariotsIndividuals RunningPeople Following People

Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesLeprosySnowWhiteAfflictions Of The Wicked, Examples OfMiracles Of ElishaWhite HairDiseaseGreed

Now the king of Aram (Syria) was making war against Israel, and he consulted with his servants, saying, “My camp shall be in such and such a place.”

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahOfficersMan's Counsel

Then Elisha said to them, "This [is] not the way and this [is] not the city. Come after me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." Then he brought them to Samaria.

So he threw a big banquet for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.

Verse ConceptsDinner

It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

Verse ConceptsSiegesNations Attacking Israelsyria

And we shall boil my son, and eat him: and saying to her on the day after, Thou shalt give thy son, and we will eat him: and she will hide her son

Verse ConceptsPeople Hiding PeopleThe Death Of BabiesMothers And SonsKidsHaving A Babycookingbabystories

Then he said, May God's punishment come on me if Elisha, the son of Shaphat, keeps his head on his body after this day.

Verse ConceptsRemoving HeadsKilling ProphetsSkulls

When the lepers arrived at the outskirts of the encampment, they entered one tent and ate and drank. Then they carried off from there some silver, gold, and clothes, and went out and hid them. After this, they returned, entered another tent, raided it, and went and hid all of that, too!

Verse ConceptsGoldDivine SuppliesHidden Things

So he took two charioteer horsemen, and the king sent after the camp of [the] Arameans, saying, "Go, find out,"

Verse ConceptsTwo Other ThingsLooking And Seeing

and they went after them to the Jordan. Look, all of the way [was] littered with clothes and equipment which [the] Arameans had thrown away in their haste. Then the messengers returned and told the king.

Verse ConceptsAbandoning ThingsHasty Action

And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

Verse ConceptsSeven YearsMan Of God

After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals going home

After that, Elisha went to Damascus; Benhadad the king of Syria being sick. And one told the king, saying, "The man of God is come hither."

Verse ConceptsSick IndividualsMan Of Godsyriadamascus

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.

Verse ConceptsMoist ThingsChokingKilling KingsCreatures Choked

After Joram was laid to rest with his ancestors in the City of David, his son Ahaziah replaced him as king.

Verse ConceptsBuried In The City Of DavidKings Of All Israel Or Judah

So the rider of the horse went out to meet him, and he said, "Thus the king asks, 'Is it peace?'" Then Jehu said, "{What do you have to do with peace}? Turn after me." Then the watchman reported, saying, "The messenger went up to them, but he did not return."

Verse ConceptsWatchmanUnrelated Things

Then he sent out a second horseman, and he came to them and said, "Thus the king asks, 'Is it peace?'" Then Jehu said, "{What do you have to do with peace}? Turn after me."

Verse ConceptsUnrelated Things

Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, "Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:

When Ahaziah king of Judah saw, he fled the way of Beth-Haggen. Jehu pursued after him and said, "Shoot him also, in the chariot." [They shot him] at the ascent of Gur which [is] in Ibleam, and he fled [to] Megiddo, but he died there.

Verse ConceptsShoutingMegiddo

He went inside and had a meal. Then he said, "Dispose of this accursed woman's corpse. Bury her, for after all, she was a king's daughter."

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After he left there, he encountered Rechab's son Jehonadab. After he greeted him, Jehu asked him, "Is your heart right, as my heart is with yours?" "It is," Jehonadab answered.

Verse ConceptsGood FriendsHandsPersonal ContactTaking By The Hand

After that, Jehu gathered all the people together and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little: but Jehu shall serve him a good.

Verse ConceptsFollowers Of Baal

However from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin, Jehu didn't depart from after them, [to wit], the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.

Verse ConceptsGolden Calves

Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the commanders of the hundreds, the appointed of the army, and he said to them, "Bring her out to the house of the ranks! The one coming after her [should] kill her with the sword," for the priest had said, "Let her not be killed in the temple of Yahweh."

Verse ConceptsRestraints From KillingApproval To Kill

After this, everyone throughout the land rejoiced and the city was at peace, because they had executed Athaliah at the king's palace.

Verse ConceptsRejoicing In God's Works

And when they saw that there was much money in the coffer, the king's scribe and the high priest came, and knit up the money that was found in the house of the LORD, after they had told it.

Verse ConceptsScribesCounting MoneyMoney For The Temple

But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he went after the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat with which he had caused Israel to sin, and he did not depart from it.

For the Aramean king had left only 50 cavalry, ten chariots, and 10,000 soldiers out of the army belonging to Jehoahaz, because the king of Aram had destroyed the others, making them like chaff left over after threshing.

Verse ConceptsSoldiersThreshingTen ThingsFiftiesTens Of ThousandsGrinding People

So Joash died, as did his ancestors, and Jeroboam assumed his throne after Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

Verse ConceptsList Of Kings Of Israel

After this Elisha said, "Pick up the arrows." So the king picked them up. Then Elisha told the king of Israel, "Strike the ground!" So he struck it three times and then stood still.

Verse ConceptsHalf HeartednessActing Three TimesArrows

After King Hazael of Aram died, his son Ben-hadad replaced him as king.

Verse ConceptsForeign Kingssyria

And he slew of the Edomites in the salt valley, ten thousand, and took the town Sela with strength of battle, and called the name of it Joktheel ever after.

Verse ConceptsSaltValleysTens Of ThousandsGiven Names To This DayNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

After that, Amaziah sent messengers to Joash the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us see each other."

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutList Of Kings Of Israel

Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

Verse Concepts15 To 20 YearsList Of Kings Of Israel

They conspired against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent [men] after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesPlottingKilling KingsConspiracy

He rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his ancestors.

At another time, Menahem attacked Tiphsah and all of its inhabitants, including its coastlands from Tirzah, because they would not open the city gate for him. After defeating them, he ripped open all of their pregnant women.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofPregnancyGashing BodiesHarming Pregnant Women

But went in the way of the kings of Israel, and thereto he offered his son in fire, after the abomination of the heathen which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeSacrifice, In OtSanctity Of LifePagan PracticesInfanticideThe Lord Drove Them Out

But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and he did not offer tribute to the king of Assyria as [he had] year after year; so the king of Assyria arrested him, and confined him [in] a house of imprisonment.

Verse ConceptsArrestingMessengers Sent OutenvoyConspiraciesImprisonmentsPrisonersTaxationPrisons

After this, the king of Assyria invaded the entire land, approached Samaria, and began a three year siege.

Verse ConceptsThree YearsNations Attacking Israel

They rejected his statutes, his covenant which he {made} with their ancestors, and his warnings which he gave to them; and they went after the idols, became vain, and [went] after all the nations which [were] all around them, which Yahweh had commanded them not to do as they [did].

Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ReligionConformityPrayerlessnessRejection Of GodImitating Wicked PeopleForsaking God's ThingsUseless EndeavourBreaking The Covenant

for He hath rent Israel from the house of David, and they make Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam driveth Israel from after Jehovah, and hath caused them to sin a great sin,

Verse ConceptsList Of Kings Of Israellegacy

To this day they do after their former customs: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes or after their ordinances, nor after the law and commandment that Jehovah commanded the sons of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesGod Renaming PeopleFalse Religion To This DayBreaking God's LawImmigrants

And they did not hearken, but did after their former customs.

and he cleaveth to Jehovah, he hath not turned aside from after Him, and keepeth His commands that Jehovah commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsSteadfastness, Examples OfClinging To God

After three years he captured it (in the sixth year of Hezekiah's reign); in the ninth year of King Hoshea's reign over Israel Samaria was captured.

Verse ConceptsThree YearsCapturing CitiesList Of Kings Of Israel

After this, the king of Assyria carried Israel off into exile in Assyria, settling them in Halah, on the Habor River in Gozan, and in cities controlled by the Medes,

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsExile Of Israel To Assyria

And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord.

Verse ConceptsLettersLiteracySpreading

This is what the Lord says about him: "The virgin daughter Zion despises you, she makes fun of you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head after you.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersVirgin

And, this unto thee, is the sign - Eating, this year, the growth of scattered seeds, and, in the second year, that which groweth after, - then, in the third year, sow ye and reap, plant ye vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof;

Verse ConceptsProphetic SignsSigns From GodVineyardPlanting VineyardsCultivationLiteral PlantingReapingFallow Land

"Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: 'This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: "I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. The day after tomorrow you will go up to the Lord's temple.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekGod HealsGod Answered PrayerGod Paid Attention To MeRecovery

Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, "What is the confirming sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the Lord's temple the day after tomorrow?"

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekRecovery

So Isaiah cried out to the LORD, who brought the shadow back ten steps after it had gone down the stairway of Ahaz.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PrayerStairwaysSun DialsTen ThingsBackwardsStepsEclipse

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

Eighteen years after King Josiah had begun to reign, the king sent Azaliah's son Shaphan, grandson of Meshullam the scribe, to the LORD's Temple. He told him,

Then, after reading it, Shaphan the scribe went in to the king and gave him an account of what had been done, saying, Your servants have given out the money which was in the house, and have given it to the overseers of the work of the house of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsWages

Then the king stood by the pillar, and he {made} a covenant before Yahweh, to go after Yahweh and to keep his commands and his warnings and his statutes, with all of [his] heart and with his all of his soul, to keep the words of this covenant written on this scroll. Then all of the people {joined} in the covenant.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Before GodGuaranteeHeart, And Holy SpiritPledgesReformationReligionConsecration, Examples OfPillars For Solomon's TempleWhole HeartednessLater Covenants With God

After he had slaughtered all the priests who served at the high places and burned their bones on those high places, he returned to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsCremationHigh PlacesKilling PriestsBones

After this, the king commanded all of the people, "Celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, just as it's prescribed in this Book of the Covenant."

Verse ConceptsBook of the CovenantWritingRegulations For Passover

And before him there had been no king like him that turned to Jehovah with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there his like.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodConsecration, Examples OfWhole HeartednessUnique IndividualsTaking The Law To HeartGuidance And Strength

During his lifetime, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jehoiakim, who became his vassal for three years, after which he turned against Nebuchadnezzar and rebelled.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahAttackingBad Decision Making ExamplesKingsRebellion, Against Human AuthorityServanthood, In SocietyArmies, Against IsraelThree YearsThose Subjected To PeopleKings of judah

And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

Verse ConceptsSoldiersOvertaking

But it chanced the seventh month after, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama of the king's blood came, and ten men with him and smote Gedaliah that he died: and so did he to the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizphah.

Verse ConceptsTen PeopleMonth 7Killing Named Individuals

Later on, after King Jehoiachin of Judah had been in exile for 37 years, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, during the first year of his reign, King Evil-merodach of Babylon released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.

Verse ConceptsMonth 12Lifting HeadsPeople Set Free By PeopleKings of judah