So he asked Gehazi, “What can I do for her?” Gehazi replied, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”

The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

She said, “Did I ask my master for a son? Didn’t I say, ‘Don’t mislead me?’”

He was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem.

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

When King Hazael of Syria died, his son Ben Hadad replaced him as king.

Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against him; he assassinated him in Ibleam and took his place as king.

These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrath: Shobal, the father of Kiriath Jearim,

and Koz, who was the father of Anub, Hazzobebah, and the clans of Aharhel the son of Harum.

The sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz.

The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-Hanan, and Tilon. The descendants of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben Zoheth.

(But the city’s land and nearby towns were allotted to Caleb son of Jephunneh.)

Phinehas son of Eleazar had been their leader in earlier times, and the Lord was with him.

He did not seek the Lord’s guidance, so the Lord killed him and transferred the kingdom to David son of Jesse.

Such were the exploits of Benaiah son of Jehoiada, who gained fame along with the three elite warriors.

The mighty warriors were: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo, from Bethlehem,

Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah,

including Obed-Edom and sixty-eight colleagues. Obed-Edom son of Jeduthun and Hosah were gatekeepers.

Abishai son of Zeruiah killed 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Benaiah son of Jehoiada supervised the Kerethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were the king’s leading officials.