But now, get me a musician.&#8221;<n id="1" /> When the musician played, the <sc>Lordsc> energized him,<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Isaiah was still in the middle courtyard when the <sc>Lordsc> told him,<n id="1" />

Elijah<n id="1" /> replied, &#8220;That&#8217;s a difficult request!<n id="2" /> If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don&#8217;t, it will not happen.&#8221;p>

Samaria&#8217;s food supply ran out.<n id="1" /> They laid siege to it so long that<n id="2" /> a donkey&#8217;s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver<n id="3" /> and a quarter of a kab<n id="4" /> of dove&#8217;s droppings<n id="5" /> for five shekels of silver.<n id="6" />p>

The prophet told the king, &#8220;Two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of finely milled flour for a shekel; this will happen about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria.&#8221;

When they first moved in,<n id="1" /> they did not worship<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. So the <sc>Lordsc> sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.

At the same time they worshiped<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.<n id="2" />

They were worshiping<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.p>

He trusted in the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel; in this regard there was none like him among the kings of Judah either before or after.<n id="1" />

When Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Just before<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> took Elijah up to heaven in a windstorm, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.

<p class="bodytext">One day Elisha<n id="1" /> came for a visit; he went<n id="2" /> into the upper room and rested.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.<n id="1" />

Raiding parties went out from Syria and took captive from the land of Israel a young girl, who became a servant to Naaman&#8217;s wife.

He was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

He hid out with his nurse in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple<n id="1" /> for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.p>

(The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple; it belonged to the priests.)p>

<p class="bodytext">When he had secured control of the kingdom,<n id="1" /> he executed the servants who had assassinated his father.<n id="2" />

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.