<t /><p class="bodytext">The men of the city said to Elisha, &#8220;Look, the city has a good location, as our<n id="1" /> master can see. But the water is bad and the land doesn&#8217;t produce crops.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined<n id="1" /> the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba.<n id="2" /> He tore down the high place of the goat idols<n id="3" /> situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate.

From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five<n id="1" /> of the king&#8217;s advisers<n id="2" /> who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens<n id="3" /> for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

So he sent horses and chariots there, along with a good-sized army.<n id="1" /> They arrived during the night and surrounded the city.p>

His servants took his body<n id="1" /> back to Jerusalem<n id="2" /> and buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the city of David.

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

Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of Lair,<n id="1" /> Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">He will go back the way he came.p> <p class="poetry">He will not enter this city,&#8221; says the <sc>Lord.sc>p>

<p class="bodytext">I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

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

<p class="bodytext">At that time the generals<n id="1" /> of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched to Jerusalem and besieged the city.<n id="2" />

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his generals were besieging it.

The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah&#8217;s eleventh year.

By the ninth day of the fourth month<n id="1" /> the famine in the city was so severe the residents<n id="2" /> had no food.

You will defeat every fortified city and every important<n id="1" /> city. You must chop down<n id="2" /> every productive<n id="3" /> tree, stop up all the springs, and cover all the cultivated land with stones.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

If we go into the city, we&#8217;ll die of starvation,<n id="1" /> and if we stay here we&#8217;ll die! So come on, let&#8217;s defect<n id="2" /> to the Syrian camp! If they spare us,<n id="3" /> we&#8217;ll live; if they kill us &#8211; well, we were going to die anyway.&#8221;<n id="4" />

Jehoahaz&#8217;s son Jehoash took back from<n id="1" /> Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from his father Jehoahaz in war. Joash defeated him three times and recovered the Israelite cities.p>

The Israelites said things about the <sc>Lordsc> their God that were not right.<n id="1" /> They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The king of Assyria brought foreigners<n id="1" /> from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria<n id="2" /> in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

I will add fifteen years to your life and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />