Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them.

Take ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and a container of honey and visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”

You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me.

“Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told a widow who lives there to provide for you.”

He went into a cave there and spent the night. All of a sudden the Lord spoke to him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”

When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden a voice asked him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”

The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came and then head for the Desert of Damascus. Go and anoint Hazael king over Syria.

Elijah replied, “That’s a difficult request! If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don’t, it will not happen.”

He said, “Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers. Get as many as you can.

She saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Lead on. Do not stop unless I say so.”

Now, run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?’” She told Gehazi, “Everything’s fine.”

Elisha sent out a messenger who told him, “Go and wash seven times in the Jordan; your skin will be restored and you will be healed.”

Elisha said to him, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover,’ but the Lord has revealed to me that he will surely die.”

He left Elisha and went to his master. Ben Hadad asked him, “What did Elisha tell you?” Hazael replied, “He told me you would surely recover.”

His assassination brought to fulfillment the Lord’s word to Jehu, “Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” That is exactly what happened.

Certainly you will not refuse one of my master’s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.

This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.

“Go, tell my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord says: “You must not build me a house in which to live.

I was with you wherever you went and I defeated all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth.

You made Israel your very own nation for all time. You, O Lord, became their God.