2 Kings 8 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Rise up and go, you and your household, and sojourn wherever you do sojourn, for יהוה  has called for a scarcity of food, and also, it is coming upon the land for seven years.”

² And the woman rose up and did according to the word of the man of Elohim, and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines, seven years.

³ And it came to be, at the end of seven years, that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. And she went to cry out to the sovereign for her house and for her land.

⁴ And the sovereign was speaking to Gĕ

⁵ And it came to be, as he was relating to the sovereign how he had restored the dead to life, that see, the woman whose son he had restored to life, was crying out to the sovereign for her house and for her land. And Gĕ

⁶ So the sovereign asked the woman, and she related to him. And the sovereign appointed a certain eunuch for her, saying, “Return all that was hers, and all the increase of the field from the day that she left the land until now.”

⁷ And Elisha came to Dammeseq, and Ben-Haḏ

⁸ And the sovereign said to Ḥ

⁹ And Ḥ

¹⁰ And Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover.’ But יהוה  has shown me that he shall certainly die.”

¹¹ And he looked at him steadily until he was ashamed. Then the man of Elohim wept.

¹² And Ḥ

¹³ And Ḥ

¹⁴ And he left Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he answered, “He said to me that you shall certainly recover.”

¹⁵ And on the next day it came to be that he took a thick cloth and dipped it in water, and spread it over his face so that he died. And Ḥ

¹⁶ And in the fifth year of Yehoram son of Aḥ

¹⁷ He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Yerushalayim.

¹⁸ And he walked in the way of the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕ

¹⁹ However, יהוה  would not destroy Yehuḏ

²⁰ In his days Eḏ

²¹ And Yoram passed over to Tsaʽ

²² Yet Eḏ

²³ And the rest of the acts of Yoram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehuḏ

²⁴ So Yoram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of Dawiḏ

²⁵ In the twelfth year of Yoram son of Aḥ

²⁶ Aḥ

²⁷ And he walked in the way of the house of Aḥ

²⁸ And he went with Yoram son of Aḥ

²⁹ And Sovereign Yoram went back to Yizreʽ