Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the city official and Joash the king’s son.

So they started toward the Syrian camp at dusk. When they reached the edge of the Syrian camp, there was no one there.

Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king was told, “The prophet has come here.”

He joined Ahab’s son Joram in a battle against King Hazael of Syria at Ramoth Gilead in which the Syrians defeated Joram.

Then Jehu killed all who were left of Ahab’s family in Jezreel, and all his nobles, close friends, and priests. He left no survivors.

At the same time they worshiped the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.

He tore down the quarters of the male cultic prostitutes in the Lord’s temple, where women were weaving shrines for Asherah.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

When God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the Lord’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.

He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. His mother was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

Don’t you realize that the Lord God of Israel has given David and his dynasty lasting dominion over Israel by a formal agreement?

Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the city official and Joash the king’s son.

But Amaziah did not heed the warning, for God wanted to hand them over to Joash because they followed the gods of Edom.

The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a huge amount of plunder and took it back to Samaria.

I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

In your distress you called out and I rescued you. I answered you from a dark thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. (Selah)

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

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

Who among all the gods of these lands have rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’”