He got up on the bed and spread his body out over the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin grew warm.

pick the best and most capable of your master’s sons, place him on his father’s throne, and defend your master’s dynasty.”

At that time King Hazael of Syria attacked Gath and captured it. Hazael then decided to attack Jerusalem.

Then Elisha told the king of Israel, “Aim the bow.” He did so, and Elisha placed his hands on the king’s hands.

Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this place to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it.’”’”

“Go, seek an oracle from the Lord for me and the people – for all Judah. Find out about the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s fury has been ignited against us, because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this scroll by doing all that it instructs us to do.”

The fifty members of the prophetic guild went and stood opposite them at a distance, while Elijah and Elisha stood by the Jordan.

He picked up Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him, and went back and stood on the shore of the Jordan.

So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.

She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s bed. She shut the door behind her and left.

When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the child lying dead on his bed.

She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.

So he sent horses and chariots there, along with a good-sized army. They arrived during the night and surrounded the city.

Ahaziah had become king over Judah in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab.

Jehu ordered the one who was in charge of the wardrobe, “Bring out robes for all the servants of Baal.” So he brought out robes for them.

Jehu reigned over Israel for twenty-eight years in Samaria.

He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

The rest of the events of Amaziah’s reign are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.

His body was carried back by horses and he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors in the city of David.

The rest of the events of Zechariah’s reign are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.