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.

When they received the letter, they seized the king&#8217;s sons and executed all seventy of them.<n id="1" /> They put their heads in baskets and sent them to him in Jezreel.

<p class="bodytext">Jehoahaz asked for the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s mercy<n id="1" /> and the <sc>Lordsc> responded favorably,<n id="2" /> for he saw that Israel was oppressed by the king of Syria.<n id="3" />

The king of Assyria responded favorably to his request;<n id="1" /> he<n id="2" /> attacked Damascus and captured it. He deported the people<n id="3" /> to Kir and executed Rezin.p>

<p class="bodytext">When he left there, he met<n id="1" /> Jehonadab, son of Rekab, who had been looking for him.<n id="2" /> Jehu greeted him and asked,<n id="3" /> &#8220;Are you as committed to me as I am to you?&#8221;<n id="4" /> Jehonadab answered, &#8220;I am!&#8221; Jehu replied, &#8220;If so, give me your hand.&#8221;<n id="5" /> So he offered his hand and Jehu<n id="6" /> pulled him up into the chariot.

They replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;A man came up to meet us. He told us, &#8220;Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, &#8216;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says: &#8220;You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are sending for an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron.<n id="2" /> Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;

Some members of the prophetic guild<n id="1" /> in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, &#8220;Do you know that today the <sc>Lordsc> is going to take your master from you?&#8221;<n id="2" /> He answered, &#8220;Yes, I know. Be quiet.&#8221;p>

Some members of the prophetic guild in Jericho approached Elisha and said, &#8220;Do you know that today the <sc>Lordsc> is going to take your master from you?&#8221; He answered, &#8220;Yes, I know. Be quiet.&#8221;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;

His servants approached and said to him, &#8220;O master,<n id="1" /> if the prophet had told you to do some difficult task,<n id="2" /> you would have been willing to do it.<n id="3" /> It seems you should be happy that he simply said, &#8220;Wash and you will be healed.&#8221;<n id="4" />

Elisha<n id="1" /> replied, &#8220;I was there in spirit when a man turned and got down from his chariot to meet you.<n id="2" /> This is not the proper time to accept silver or to accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, cattle, and male and female servants.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">The prophet&#8217;s<n id="1" /> attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Oh no, my master! What will we do?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man<n id="1" /> at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate.<n id="2" /> This fulfilled the prophet&#8217;s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him.<n id="3" />

Joram<n id="1" /> crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites, who had surrounded him, attacked at night and defeated him and his chariot officers.<n id="2" /> The Israelite army retreated to their homeland.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned<n id="1" /> the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians<n id="2" /> and the royal bodyguard.<n id="3" /> He met with them<n id="4" /> in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple. He made an agreement<n id="5" /> with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple. Then he showed them the king&#8217;s son.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Elisha had a terminal illness.<n id="1" /> King Joash of Israel went down to visit him.<n id="2" /> He wept before him and said, &#8220;My father, my father! The chariot<n id="3" /> and horsemen of Israel!&#8221;<n id="4" />

&#8220;This is what Hezekiah says:<n id="1" /> &#8216;This is a day of distress, insults,<n id="2" /> and humiliation,<n id="3" /> as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through.<n id="4" />

Isaiah the prophet visited King Hezekiah and asked him, &#8220;What did these men say? Where do they come from?&#8221; Hezekiah replied, &#8220;They come from the distant land of Babylon.&#8221;

Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the <sc>Lordsc>: &#8220;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel says concerning the words you have heard:

He asked, &#8220;What is this grave marker I see?&#8221; The men from the city replied, &#8220;It&#8217;s the grave of the prophet<n id="1" /> who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.&#8221;