He told his servant Gehazi, “Ask the Shunammite woman to come here.” So he did so and she came to him.

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

When he arrived at the hill, he took them from the servants and put them in the house. Then he sent the men on their way.

He replied, “Don’t be afraid, for our side outnumbers them.”

When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “Should I strike them down, my master?”

He replied, “No, let the Lord help you. How can I help you? The threshing floor and winepress are empty.”

Jehoram turned his chariot around and took off. He said to Ahaziah, “It’s a trap, Ahaziah!”

He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down, and when she hit the ground, her blood splattered against the wall and the horses, and Jehu drove his chariot over her.

When Athaliah heard the royal guard shout, she joined the crowd at the Lord’s temple.

I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.’”

They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he passed sentence on him.

Some members of the prophetic guild in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

He sent this message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you fight with me against Moab?” Jehoshaphat replied, “I will join you in the campaign; my army and horses are at your disposal.”

Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tell her, ‘Look, you have treated us with such great respect. What can I do for you? Can I put in a good word for you with the king or the commander of the army?’” She replied, “I’m quite secure.”

But when she reached the prophet on the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the prophet said, “Leave her alone, for she is very upset. The Lord has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn’t tell me about it.”

Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine. He picked some of its fruit, enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful.

This made the king of Syria upset. So he summoned his advisers and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.”

When the men with a skin disease reached the edge of the camp, they entered a tent and had a meal. They also took some silver, gold, and clothes and went and hid it all. Then they went back and entered another tent. They looted it and went and hid what they had taken.

So they went and called out to the gatekeepers of the city. They told them, “We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn’t even hear a man’s voice. But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up.”

Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”