2 Kings 8:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Elisha went to Damascus while King Ben-hadad of Aram was ill. When it was told him, “The man of God has come here,”

Cross References

Genesis 14:15

He divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and routed them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.

1 Kings 11:24

He gathered followers around him and became leader of a marauding band, after the killing by David; they went to Damascus, settled there, and made him king in Damascus.

1 Kings 13:1

A man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel, while Jeroboam was standing by the altar to offer incense.

1 Kings 15:18

Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house and gave them into the hands of his servants. King Asa sent them to King Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon son of Hezion of Aram, who resided in Damascus, saying,

1 Kings 20:1

King Ben-hadad of Aram gathered all his army together; thirty-two kings were with him, along with horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria, laid siege to it, and attacked it.

1 Kings 20:34

Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the towns that my father took from your father, and you may establish bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” The king of Israel responded, “I will let you go on those terms.” So he made a treaty with him and let him go.

2 Kings 1:2

Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria and was injured, so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.”

2 Kings 2:15

When the company of prophets who were at Jericho saw him at a distance, they declared, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.

2 Kings 5:20

Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, “My master has let that Aramean Naaman off too lightly by not accepting from him what he offered. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”

2 Kings 6:12

Then one of his officers said, “No one, my lord king. It is Elisha, the prophet in Israel, who tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber.”

2 Kings 6:24

Some time later King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered his entire army; he marched against Samaria and laid siege to it.

2 Kings 8:6

When the king questioned the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers, together with all the revenue of the fields from the day that she left the land until now.”

Isaiah 7:8

For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. (Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered, no longer a people.)

Jeremiah 40:5

If you remain, then return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon appointed governor of the towns of Judah, and stay with him among the people, or go wherever you think it right to go.” So the captain of the guard gave him an allowance of food and a present and let him go.

Acts 17:6

When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers and sisters before the city authorities, shouting, “These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also,

Deuteronomy 33:1

This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites before his death.

Judges 16:2

The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here.” So they circled around and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They kept quiet all night, thinking, “Let us wait until the light of the morning; then we will kill him.”