So the woman did as the prophet said.<n id="1" /> She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

Elisha said to him, &#8220;Go and tell him, &#8216;You will surely recover,&#8217;<n id="1" /> but the <sc>Lordsc> has revealed to me that he will surely die.&#8221;

He left Elisha and went to his master. Ben Hadad<n id="1" /> asked him, &#8220;What did Elisha tell you?&#8221; Hazael<n id="2" /> replied, &#8220;He told me you would surely recover.&#8221;

He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab&#8217;s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab&#8217;s daughter.<n id="1" /> He did evil in the sight of<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>.

He followed in the footsteps of Ahab&#8217;s dynasty and did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, like Ahab&#8217;s dynasty, for he was related to Ahab&#8217;s family.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">He joined Ahab&#8217;s son Joram in a battle against King Hazael of Syria at Ramoth Gilead in which the Syrians defeated Joram.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild<n id="1" /> and told him, &#8220;Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container<n id="2" /> of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

Jehu drove his chariot<n id="1" /> to Jezreel, for Joram was recuperating<n id="2" /> there. (Now King Ahaziah of Judah had come down to visit<n id="3" /> Joram.)p>

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. He continued in<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins.<n id="3" />

But they did not repudiate<n id="1" /> the sinful ways of the family<n id="2" /> of Jeroboam, who encouraged Israel to sin; they continued in those sins.<n id="3" /> There was even an Asherah pole<n id="4" /> standing in Samaria.

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. He did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins.<n id="3" />

Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel. He said, &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s meet face to face.&#8221;<n id="1" />

He followed in the footsteps of<n id="1" /> the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire,<n id="2" /> a horrible sin practiced by the nations<n id="3" /> whom the <sc>Lordsc> drove out from before the Israelites.

they observed the practices<n id="1" /> of the nations whom the <sc>Lordsc> had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel.<n id="2" />

Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the <sc>Lordsc> their God; they followed Israel&#8217;s example.<n id="1" />

&#8220;Please, <sc>Lordsc>. Remember how I have served you<n id="1" /> faithfully and with wholehearted devotion,<n id="2" /> and how I have carried out your will.&#8221;<n id="3" /> Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.<n id="4" />p>

He did what the <sc>Lordsc> approved<n id="1" /> and followed in his ancestor David&#8217;s footsteps;<n id="2" /> he did not deviate to the right or the left.p>

Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria<n id="1" /> and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Go, ask<n id="3" /> Baal Zebub,<n id="4" /> the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">But the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s angelic messenger told Elijah the Tishbite, &#8220;Get up, go to meet the messengers from the king of Samaria. Say this to them: &#8216;You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are on your way to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub the god of Ekron.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Elijah said to him, &#8220;Stay here, for the <sc>Lordsc> has sent me to the Jordan.&#8221; But he replied, &#8220;As certainly as the <sc>Lordsc> lives and as you live, I will not leave you.&#8221; So they traveled on together.