Hezekiah welcomed them and showed them his whole storehouse, with its silver, gold, spices, and high quality olive oil, as well as his armory and everything in his treasuries. Hezekiah showed them everything in his palace and in his whole kingdom.

Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. In whom are you trusting that you would dare to rebel against me?

So they tracked them as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste. The scouts went back and told the king.

Because you rage against me, and the uproar you create has reached my ears; I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle between your lips, and I will lead you back the way you came.”

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

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

Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab worshiped Baal a little; Jehu will worship him with great devotion.

They did not audit the treasurers who disbursed the funds to the foremen, for they were honest.

But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the Lord their God.

He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from the watchtower to the city fortress.

I know where you live, and everything you do.

Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.

They also took the pots, shovels, trimming shears, pans, and all the bronze utensils used by the priests.

Elisha told Gehazi, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff, and go! Don’t stop to exchange greetings with anyone! Place my staff on the child’s face.”

Jehoiada led out the king’s son and placed on him the crown and the royal insignia. They proclaimed him king and poured olive oil on his head. They clapped their hands and cried out, “Long live the king!”

Elisha said to him, “Go in peace.” When he had gone a short distance,

Judah was defeated by Israel, and each man ran back home.

They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry.

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.”

Now all Moab had heard that the kings were attacking, so everyone old enough to fight was mustered and placed at the border.