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2 Kings 8:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

While he was telling the king how Elisha restored the dead son to life, the woman whose son he had restored to life came to appeal to the king for her house and field. So Gehazi said, ‘My lord the king, this is the woman and this is the son Elisha restored to life.’

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Elisha got up, went into the house, and paced back and forth. Then he went up and bent down over him again. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.


What, then, are we to say about these things?  If God is for us, who is against us?


Again I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift,  or the battle to the strong,  or bread to the wise, or riches to the discerning, or favour to the skilful; rather, time and chance happen to all of them.


A person’s heart plans his way, but the Lord determines his steps.


His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, ‘Have them build a gallows twenty-three metres  tall.  Ask the king in the morning to hang Mordecai on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.’ The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.


As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, ‘My lord the king, help! ’


One of his servants said, ‘No one, my lord the king. Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel even the words you speak in your bedroom.’


Saul recognised David’s voice and asked, ‘Is that your voice, my son David? ’ ‘It is my voice, my lord and king,’ David said.


So Ruth left and entered the field to gather corn behind the harvesters. She happened  to be in the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from Elimelech’s family.


He ordered his attendant Gehazi,  ‘Call this Shunammite woman.’ So he called her and she stood before him.


When the king asked the woman, she told him the story. So the king appointed a court official for her, saying, ‘Restore all that was hers, along with all the income from the field from the day she left the country until now.’


Now King Ben-hadad  of Aram assembled his entire army. Thirty-two kings,  along with horses and chariots, were with him. He marched up, besieged Samaria,  and fought against it.





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