But Elijah said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all lives (whom I serve), I will make an appearance before him today.”

The king of Israel replied, “It is just as you say, my master, O king. I and all I own belong to you.”

They marched out of the city with the servants of the district governors in the lead and the army behind them.

But Micaiah said, “As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what the Lord tells me to say.”

Micaiah replied, “Look, you will see in the day when you go into an inner room to hide.”

He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa.

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

The water has been pure to this very day, just as Elisha prophesied.

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

Naaman went and told his master what the girl from the land of Israel had said.

But Elisha replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives (whom I serve), I will take nothing from you.” Naaman insisted that he take it, but he refused.

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

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

Throughout his lifetime Jehoash did what the Lord approved, just as Jehoiada the priest taught him.

He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Amaziah had done.

He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.

They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command.

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

The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and did not repudiate them.