Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had revived, saying, “Get up and go, you and your household, and live wherever you want to live, for Adonoy has proclaimed a famine and it is coming upon the land for seven years.”

The woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God. She and her household went and lived in the land of the Pelishtim for seven years.

At the end of seven years the woman returned from the land of Pelishtim, and she went out to cry to the king about her house and her field.

The king was speaking to Geichazi, the [former] servant of the man of God, saying, “Please tell me about all the great deeds that Elisha performed.”

Just as he was telling the king how he [Elisha] revived the dead, behold there was the woman whose son he had revived, crying out to the king about her house and her field. Geichazi said, “My master, the king, this is the woman and this is her son whom Elisha revived.”

The king asked the woman, and she told him; the king then appointed for her, a certain officer, saying, “Return all that belongs to her, and [the value of] all the produce of the field from the day she left the land until now.”

Elisha came to Damesek and Ben-Hadad, king of Arom, was sick. It was told to him, saying, “The man of God has come here.”

The king said to Chazoeil, “Take a gift in your hand, and go greet the man of God. Ask of Adonoy through him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

Chazoeil went to [greet] him and took a gift in his hand, and all the best of Damesek, forty camel loads. He came and stood before him, and said, “Your son, Ben-Hadad king of Arom, sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

And Elisha said to him, “Go say to him, ‘You will surely live,’ but Adonoy has informed me that he will surely die.”

He [Elisha] kept his face emotionless and held it so for a long time, and then the man of God wept.

Chazoeil said, “Why is my master weeping?” He said, “Because I know that you will do evil to the Bnei Yisroel; their strongholds you will set on fire, their youths you will kill with the sword, their infants you will dash to pieces, and their pregnant women you will split open.”

And Chazoeil said, “What is your servant but a [mere] dog that he can do this terrible thing?” And Elisha said, “Adonoy has revealed to me that you are to be the king of Arom.”

He left Elisha and came to his master, and he said to him, “What did Elisha tell you?” He said, “He said to me, ‘You will surely live.’”

The next day he [Chazoeil] took a blanket and dipped it in water; he spread it over his [Ben-Hadad’s] face and he died. Chazoeil became king in his place.

In the fifth year of Yorom son of Achov king of Yisroel, and Yehoshophot king of Yehudah, Yehorom, son of Yehoshophot became king. king of Yisroel.

He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for eight years in Yerusholayim.

He followed in the way of the kings of Yisroel, as the house of Achov had done, for Achov’s daughter became his wife. He did what was evil in the eyes of Adonoy.

[However] Adonoy did not want to destroy Yehudah for the sake of His servant, Dovid, as He had said to him, to give him a kingdom for his descendants all the days.

In his days, Edom rebelled against Yehudah’s rule, and appointed a king over themselves.

So Yorom went over to [attack] Tzo’ir, and all his chariots were with him. He got up at night and struck Edom that were surrounding him, and the officers of the chariots; then the people fled to their tents.

But Edom [continued] to rebel against being under Yehudah’s rule to this day. Then Livnoh rebelled at that time.

The rest of the events of Yorom and all that he did, they are indeed recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah.

Yorom lay with his forefathers, and was buried with his forefathers in the City of Dovid. Achazyohu, his son, reigned in his place.

In the twelfth year of Yorom, son of Achov, king of Yisroel, Achazyohu reigned; [he was] the son of Yehorom king of Yehudah.

Achazyohu was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for one year in Yerusholayim. His mother’s name was Asalyohu, the daughter of Omri king of Yisroel.

He followed in the way of the house of Achov, and did what was evil in the eyes of Adonoy, like the house of Achov, for he was a son-in-law in the house of Achov.

He went with Yorom, son of Achov, to war against Chazoeil king of Arom, at Ramos-Gilod, and the Aromeans wounded Yorom.

And king Yorom returned to recuperate in Yizre’el from the wounds that were inflicted upon him by the Aromeans in Romoh when he fought Cagainst hazoeil king of Arom. Achazyohu, son of Yehorom, king of Yehudah, went down to see Yorom, son of Achov, in Yizre’el, for he was sick.