Have any of the gods of the nations actually rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria? ¹ 

When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.

It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.

He turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my home.” ¹ 

I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people ¹  and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies, ² 

He abandoned the Lord God of his ancestors and did not follow the Lord’s instructions. ¹ 

including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work. ¹ 

They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, ¹  where he ²  passed sentence on him.

He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than ¹  the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

Jehoiachin ¹  took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

They said to him, “Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord ¹  may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha ²  replied, “Don’t send them out.”

Now a wife of one of the prophets ¹  appealed ²  to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. ³  Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”

Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought, ¹  “Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. ²  As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.”

Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes so he can see.” The Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw that ¹  the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O Lord, open their eyes, so they can see.” The Lord opened their eyes and they saw that they were in the middle of Samaria. ¹ 

When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could see he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes. ¹ 

The Lord had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!”

Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, ¹  for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”

The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. ¹  The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, ²  “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”