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2 ReyesCapítulo 8

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Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, "Get up and go, you and your household, and settle wherever you can, for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years."
So the woman got up and did as the man of God had said. She went with her household and settled in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
At the end of the seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, and she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.
Now the king was speaking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, and said, "Tell me all the great things Elisha has done."
Just as Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, the very woman whose son he had restored came in to appeal to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, "My lord the king, this is the woman, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life."
The king questioned the woman, and she told him her story. Then the king assigned an official to her, saying, "Restore everything that belongs to her, along with all the income from her land from the day she left the country until now."
Elisha came to Damascus while Ben-hadad king of Aram was ill. When he was told, "The man of God has come here,"
the king said to Hazael, "Take a gift with you and go to meet the man of God. Inquire of the LORD through him: Will I recover from this illness?"
So Hazael went to meet him, taking with him a gift—the finest goods of Damascus, a load for forty camels. He came and stood before him and said, "Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask you: Will I recover from this illness?"
Elisha said to him, "Go and tell him, 'You will certainly recover.'[^1] Yet the LORD has shown me that he will surely die." [^1]: The written Hebrew consonants here can be read as "tell him" or as "you will not certainly recover"; the traditional reading is "tell him."
Then he fixed his gaze on him and stared until Hazael was ashamed, and the man of God wept.
"Why is my lord weeping?" Hazael asked. He answered, "Because I know the harm you will do to the people of Israel. You will set their fortresses on fire, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women."
Hazael said, "But what is your servant—a mere dog—that he should do such a great thing?" Elisha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you will become king over Aram."
Then Hazael left Elisha and went to his master, who asked him, "What did Elisha say to you?" He answered, "He told me that you would certainly recover."
But the next day he took a blanket, soaked it in water, and spread it over the king's face, and he died. And Hazael became king in his place.
In the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, while Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat became king of Judah.
He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.
He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for he had married a daughter of Ahab. And he did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD.
Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah, for the sake of his servant David, since he had promised to give him a lamp for his descendants forever.
In his days Edom rebelled against the rule of Judah and set up a king of its own.
So Joram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. He set out by night and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, along with their chariot commanders, but his troops fled to their tents.
So Edom has been in rebellion against the rule of Judah to this day. Libnah also rebelled at that same time.
As for the rest of the acts of Joram and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
Joram rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Ahaziah became king in his place.
In the twelfth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.[^1] [^1]: Hebrew: "daughter of Omri"; the Hebrew word can also mean a more distant female descendant. Athaliah was the daughter of Ahab, Omri's son.
He followed the ways of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was related by marriage to the house of Ahab.
He went with Joram son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.
So King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah in his battle with Hazael king of Aram. And Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because he was ill.
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