Elisha prophesies of plenty.

CHAP VII, VIII whence shall I help thee? out of the barn-floor, or out of the wine-press?

28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.

The unbeliever trode to death 11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.

12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and camp, to hide themselves in the field, saying, I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, When they come out of the city, we shall catel that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son. them alive, and get into the city. 30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the 13 And one of his servants answered and said, words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they and behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh. are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in 31 Then he said, God do so and more also to it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multime, if the head of Elisha theson ofShaphat shall tude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and stand on him this day. let us send and see.

14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer 15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and hath sent to take away my head? look, when the lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's And the messengers returned, and told the king. feet behind him? 16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for

33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should a shekel, according to the word of the LORD. wait for the LORD any longer?

CHAP. VII.

17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him. 18 And it came to pass 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 2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned a shekel, shall be to-morrow about this time is answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the gate of Samaria:

A sudden plenty in Samaria. THEN Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To-morrow about this time skall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

the LORD would make windows in heaven, might 19 And that lord answered the man of God, and this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. windows in heaven, might such a thing be?

3 And there were four leprous men at the en- And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine tering in of the gate: and they said one to ano-eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. ther, Why sit we here until we die ?

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 there

fore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died. CHAP. VIII.

The Shunammite's land restored.

THEN spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn 5 And they rose up in the twilight to go unto wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD the camp of the Syrians: and when they were hath called for a famine; and it shall also come come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, upon the land seven years. behold, there was no man there.

2 And the woman arose, and did after the say

6 For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians ing of the man of God: and she went with her to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, household, and sojourned in the land of the Phieven the noise of a great host: and they said one listines seven years.

to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against 3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the that the woman returned out of the land of the Egyptians, to come upon us. Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house, and for her land.

7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their as- 4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant ses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee 8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost all the great things that Elisha hath done. part of the camp, they went into one tent, and 5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and how he had restored a dead body to life, that begold, and raiment, and went and hid it and hold, the woman, whose son he had restored to came again, and entered into another tent, and life, cried to the king for her house and for her carried thence also, and went and hid it. land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is

9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our restored to life.

peace: if we tarry till the morning-light, some 6 And when the king asked the woman, she inischief will come upon us: now therefore told him. So the king appointed unto her a cercome, that we may go and tell the king's house-tain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, hold. and all the fruits of the field since the day that

10 So they came and called unto the porter of she left the land, even until now. the city and they told them, saying, We came 7 And Elisha came to Damascus: and Bento the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told no man there, neither voice of man, but horses him, saying, The man of God is come hither. died, and asses tied, and the tents as they were. 8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a pre

Jehu followeth Jeroboam's sins.

II. KINGS.

Jehoash anointed king. into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of was full from one end to another. the watch of the king's house;

22 And he said unto him that was over the ves- 6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; try, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers and a third part at the gate behind the guard. of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments. so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it 23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of be not broken down.

Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the 7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the be here with you none of the servants of the house of the LORD about the king.

Jehoash's good reign. N the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

3 But the high places were not taken away:| the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

4 ¶ And Jehoash said to the priests All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money thatevery man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any nan's heart to bring into the house of the LORD, 5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

Elisha s death.

CHAP. AIN.
Jihoahaz's wicked reign.

IN the three and twentieth year of Joash the
son of Abaziah king of Judah, Jehoahaz the
son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Sama-
ria, and reigned seventeen years.
2 And he did that which was evil in the sight
of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he
departed not therefrom.

3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all their days. 4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria

7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, oppressed them. Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now 5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that therefore receive no more money of your acquaint- they went out from under the hand of the Syriance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. ans: and the children of Israel dwelt in their 8 And the priests consented to receive no more tents, as beforetime.

money of the people, neither to repair the breaches 6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house. of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, 9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and but walked therein and there remained the bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the grove also in Samaria.) altar, on the right side as onc cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

10 And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,

12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

13 Howbeit, there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:

44 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.

15 Moreover, they reckoned not with the men, Into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully. 16 The trespass-money and sin-money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.

17 ¶ Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made thein like the dust by threshing.

8 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and alt that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? 9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Sainaria: and Joash his sou reigned in his stead.

10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.

11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin; but he walked therein.

12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? 13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne; and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. 14 1 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father! the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof! 15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows 16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thy 18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hal-hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it. lowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehorain, and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands. and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had 17 And he said, Open the window eastward. dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. the gold that was found in the treasures of the And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and LORD's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in away from Jerusalem. Aphek, till thou have consumed them. 18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed. 19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt

19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.

21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote smite Syria but thrice. him, and he died; and they buried him with his 20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. fathers in the city of David and Amaziah his And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land on reigned in his stead.

lat the coming in of the year.