The water has been pure to this very day, just as Elisha prophesied.

One day Elisha came for a visit; he went into the upper room and rested.

He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died.

The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.

In those days the Lord prompted King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah to attack Judah.

In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel’s territory. Hazael attacked their eastern border.

because they have done evil in my sight and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”

So Edom has remained free from Judah’s control to this very day. At that same time Libnah also rebelled.

He issued this edict because a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah.

They demolished the sacred pillar of Baal and the temple of Baal; it is used as a latrine to this very day.

He defeated 10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley; he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, a name it has retained to this very day.

(At that time King Rezin of Syria recovered Elat for Syria; he drove the Judahites from there. Syrians arrived in Elat and live there to this very day.)

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

“This is what Hezekiah says: ‘This is a day of distress, insults, and humiliation, as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through.

‘Look, a time is coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.

But they were so insistent, he became embarrassed. So he said, “Send them out.” They sent the fifty men out and they looked for three days, but could not find Elijah.

These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

Then he said, “May God judge me severely if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!”

One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal.

So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, ‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”