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1 In the three and twen­ti­eth year of Joash the son of Ahazi­ah king of Ju­dah Je­hoa­haz the son of Jehu be­gan to reign over Is­rael in Samaria, and reigned sev­en­teen years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and fol­lowed the sins of Jer­oboam the son of Nebat, which made Is­rael to sin; he de­part­ed not there­from. 3 And the anger of the LORD was kin­dled against Is­rael, and he de­liv­ered them into the hand of Haz­a­el king of Syr­ia, and into the hand of Ben­hadad the son of Haz­a­el, all their days. 4 And Je­hoa­haz be­sought the LORD, and the LORD hear­kened unto him: for he saw the op­pres­sion of Is­rael, be­cause the king of Syr­ia op­pressed them. 5 (And the LORD gave Is­rael a saviour, so that they went out from un­der the hand of the Syr­i­ans: and the chil­dren of Is­rael dwelt in their tents, as be­fore­time. 6 Nev­er­the­less they de­part­ed not from the sins of the house of Jer­oboam, who made Is­rael sin, but walked there­in: and there re­mained the grove also in Samaria.) 7 Nei­ther did he leave of the peo­ple to Je­hoa­haz but fifty horse­men, and ten char­i­ots, and ten thou­sand foot­men; for the king of Syr­ia had de­stroyed them, and had made them like the dust by thresh­ing. 8 Now the rest of the acts of Je­hoa­haz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not writ­ten in the book of the chron­i­cles of the kings of Is­rael? 9 And Je­hoa­haz slept with his fa­thers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead. 10 In the thir­ty and sev­enth year of Joash king of Ju­dah be­gan Je­hoash the son of Je­hoa­haz to reign over Is­rael in Samaria, and reigned six­teen years. 11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he de­part­ed not from all the sins of Jer­oboam the son of Nebat, who made Is­rael sin: but he walked there­in. 12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might where­with he fought against Amazi­ah king of Ju­dah, are they not writ­ten in the book of the chron­i­cles of the kings of Is­rael? 13 And Joash slept with his fa­thers; and Jer­oboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Is­rael. 14 Now El­isha was fall­en sick of his sick­ness where­of he died. And Joash the king of Is­rael came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my fa­ther, my fa­ther, the char­i­ot of Is­rael, and the horse­men there­of. 15 And El­isha said unto him, Take bow and ar­rows. And he took unto him bow and ar­rows. 16 And he said to the king of Is­rael, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and El­isha put his hands upon the king's hands. 17 And he said, Open the win­dow east­ward. And he opened it. Then El­isha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The ar­row of the LORD'S de­liv­er­ance, and the ar­row of de­liv­er­ance from Syr­ia: for thou shalt smite the Syr­i­ans in Aphek, till thou have con­sumed them. 18 And he said, Take the ar­rows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Is­rael, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed. 19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smit­ten five or six times; then hadst thou smit­ten Syr­ia till thou hadst con­sumed it: where­as now thou shalt smite Syr­ia but thrice. 20 And El­isha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites in­vad­ed the land at the com­ing in of the year. 21 And it came to pass, as they were bury­ing a man, that, be­hold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepul­chre of El­isha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of El­isha, he re­vived, and stood up on his feet. 22 But Haz­a­el king of Syr­ia op­pressed Is­rael all the days of Je­hoa­haz. 23 And the LORD was gra­cious unto them, and had com­pas­sion on them, and had re­spect unto them, be­cause of his covenant with Abra­ham, Isaac, and Ja­cob, and would not de­stroy them, nei­ther cast he them from his pres­ence as yet. 24 So Haz­a­el king of Syr­ia died; and Ben­hadad his son reigned in his stead. 25 And Je­hoash the son of Je­hoa­haz took again out of the hand of Ben­hadad the son of Haz­a­el the cities, which he had tak­en out of the hand of Je­hoa­haz his fa­ther by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and re­cov­ered the cities of Is­rael.