He said to his father, &#8220;My head! My head!&#8221; His father<n id="1" /> told a servant, &#8220;Carry him to his mother.&#8221;

So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap<n id="1" /> until noon and then died.

She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.p>

His body was carried back by horses<n id="1" /> and he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors in the city of David.

When the men with a skin disease reached the edge of the camp, they entered a tent and had a meal.<n id="1" /> They also took some silver, gold, and clothes and went and hid it all.<n id="2" /> Then they went back and entered another tent. They looted it<n id="3" /> and went and hid what they had taken.

Jehu ordered<n id="1" /> his officer Bidkar, &#8220;Pick him up and throw him into the part of the field that once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel. Remember, you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, when the <sc>Lordsc> pronounced this judgment on him,

Elisha<n id="1" /> called to Gehazi and said, &#8220;Get the Shunammite woman.&#8221; So he did so<n id="2" /> and she came to him. He said to her, &#8220;Take your son.&#8221;

He looked up at the window and said, &#8220;Who is on my side? Who?&#8221; Two or three<n id="1" /> eunuchs looked down at him.

You thoroughly defeated Edom<n id="1" /> and it has gone to your head!<n id="2" /> Gloat over your success,<n id="3" /> but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at?p> <p class="poetry">At whom have you shouted,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and looked so arrogantly?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">At the Holy One of Israel!<n id="3" />p>

They said to him, &#8220;Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.&#8221; But Elisha<n id="2" /> replied, &#8220;Don&#8217;t send them out.&#8221;

Elisha said, &#8220;As certainly as the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all <n id="1" /> lives (whom I serve),<n id="2" /> if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah,<n id="3" /> I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Naaman, the commander of the king of Syria&#8217;s army, was esteemed and respected by his master,<n id="1" /> for through him the <sc>Lordsc> had given Syria military victories. But this great warrior had a skin disease.<n id="2" />

Naaman said, &#8220;Please accept two talents of silver.<n id="1" /> He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi.<n id="2" />

&#8216;&#8220;Know for sure that I saw the shed blood of Naboth and his sons yesterday,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;and that I will give you what you deserve right here in this plot of land,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217; So now pick him up and throw him into this plot of land, just as the <sc>Lordsc> said.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Perhaps the <sc>Lordsc> your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God.<n id="1" /> When the <sc>Lordsc> your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said.<n id="2" /> So pray for this remnant that remains.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

&#8216;Look, a time is<n id="1" /> coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,&#8217; says the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, as well as the movable stands and the big bronze basin called the &#8220;The Sea.&#8221;<n id="1" /> They took the bronze to Babylon.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh<n id="1" /> day of the twelfth month,<n id="2" /> King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned<n id="3" /> King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him<n id="4" /> from prison.

King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, &#8220;I have violated our treaty.<n id="1" /> If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.&#8221;<n id="2" /> So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents<n id="3" /> of silver and thirty talents of gold.