Just before the Lord took Elijah up to heaven in a windstorm, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.

One day Elisha came for a visit; he went into the upper room and rested.

The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.

Raiding parties went out from Syria and took captive from the land of Israel a young girl, who became a servant to Naaman’s wife.

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

He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

(The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the Lord’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)

When he had secured control of the kingdom, he executed the servants who had assassinated his father.

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

King Shalmaneser of Assyria threatened him; Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute.

The Lord was with him; he succeeded in all his endeavors. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to submit to him.

When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.

‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies,

When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.

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

Cush was the father of Nimrod, who established himself as a mighty warrior on earth.

Hadad died.The tribal chiefs of Edom were: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

Segub was the father of Jair, who owned twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

The sons of Jerahmeel, Hezron’s firstborn, were Ram, the firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.