Then they  ¹took the stone away. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

And I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the crowd standing around, I said it, that they may believe that You have  ¹sent Me.

And when He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!

And he who had died came out, bound hand and foot with cloths, and his face was bound about with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, Loose him and let him go.

Many of the Jews therefore who had come to Mary and beheld the things that He did believed into Him.

But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus did.

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled a council and said, What do we do? For this man is doing many signs.

If we let Him do so, all will believe into Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all,

Nor do you take account of the fact that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people and that not the whole nation perish.

But this he did not say from himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation,

And not for the nation only, but that He might also  ¹gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

From that day therefore they took counsel to kill Him.

Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there He remained with the disciples.

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover in order to purify themselves.

They then sought Jesus, and said to one another as they stood in the temple, What do you think? That He will not, by any means, come to the feast?

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should disclose it, so that they might arrest Him.

Now the king of Syria waged war against Israel. And he took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall my camp be.

And the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, saying, Beware that you do not pass such a place, for the Syrians are going down there.

And the king of Israel sent word to the place that the man of God told him about.  ¹So the king alerted  ²the place and put it on guard not merely once or twice.

And the heart of the king of Syria was enraged over this matter. And he called his servants and said to them, Tell me, which of us sides with the king of Israel?

And one of his servants said, None, O my lord the king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words which you speak in your bedroom.

And he said, Go and see where he is, that I may send for him and seize him. And it was told him, saying, He is in Dothan.

And he sent horses and chariots and a massive army there. And they came by night and surrounded the city.

And the servant of the man of God rose early and went out, and there it was: an army with horses and chariots surrounding the city. And his attendant said to him, Alas, my master! What shall we do?

And he said, Do not fear, for they who are with us are more than they who are with them.

And Elisha prayed and said, O Jehovah, open his eyes that he may see. And Jehovah opened the eyes of the attendant, and he saw: The mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

And when the  ¹Syrians came down to him, Elisha prayed to Jehovah and said, Strike this nation with blindness. And He struck them with blindness according to Elisha's word.

Then Elisha said to them, This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek. And he brought them to Samaria.

And when they came to Samaria, Elisha said, O Jehovah, open the eyes of these men that they may see. And Jehovah opened their eyes and they saw that they were in the midst of Samaria.

And when he saw them, the king of Israel said to Elisha, Shall I strike them? Shall I strike them, my father?

And he said, You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive by your sword and your bow? Set bread and water before them, and let them eat and drink and go back to their master.

Then he prepared a great  ¹feast for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Syria no longer came into the land of Israel.

And after this Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria.

And there was a great famine in Samaria; and they besieged it until the head of a donkey was sold for eighty pieces of silver and a fourth part of a  ¹kab of doves' dung was sold for five pieces of silver.

And once, as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, Help me, O my lord the king.

And he said, If Jehovah does not help you, from where shall I help you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?

And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And she said, This woman said to me, Give up your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.

So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, Give up your son that we may eat him; but she hid her son.

And when the king heard the woman's words, he tore his clothes. And as he passed by upon the wall, the people could see that he had sackcloth upon his flesh underneath.

And he said, God do so to me, and even more, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today.

Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And the king had sent a man from before him. Before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, Do you see that this son of a murderer has sent someone to take away my head? When the messenger comes, see that you shut the door and hold the door closed against him. Surely the sound of his master's feet is behind him.

While he was still talking with them, the  ¹king came down to him and said, This evil is from Jehovah; why should I wait for Jehovah any longer?

And Elisha said, Hear the word of Jehovah: Thus says Jehovah, At about this time tomorrow a  ¹seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel and two seahs of barley will be sold for a shekel in the gate of Samaria.

Then the captain on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God and said, Even if Jehovah made windows in heaven, could this thing happen? And he said, Your eyes shall indeed see it, but you shall not eat from it.

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. And they said to one another, Why are we sitting here until we die?

If we say, Let us enter the city, the famine is in the city and we will die there; but if we sit here, we will also die. Now therefore let us go and desert to the camp of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will die.

So they rose up in the twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. And when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, there was not a man there.

Now the Lord had made the camp of the Syrians hear the sound of chariots and the sound of horses, the sound of a great army; and each man said to his brother, Now the king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to come against us.

And they rose up and fled in the twilight, and they abandoned their tents and their horses and their donkeys, indeed the whole camp just as it was, and fled for their lives.

So when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they entered one tent and began to eat and drink. And they took silver and gold and clothing from there, and went and hid them. And they went back and entered another tent and took things from there and went and hid them.

Then they said to one another, We are not doing right. This day is a day of good tidings, and we remain silent. If we delay until the morning's light, our iniquity will find us out. Now therefore, come and let us go and tell the king's household.

So they went and called out to the gatekeepers of the city and told them saying, We went to the camp of the Syrians, and there was not a man there nor even the sound of a man; but the horses were tied, and the donkeys were tied, and the tents were left as they were.

And the gatekeepers proclaimed it and told the king's household within.

And the king rose up in the night and said to his servants, I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us: They know that we are hungry; and they have gone out from the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out from the city, we will take them alive; and into the city we will go.

And one of his servants answered and said, Let some men take five of the remaining horses that are left in  ¹the city — they are like all the multitude of Israel which remain in  ¹the city; they are like all the multitude of Israel which have perished — and let us send them and see.

So they took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the army of Syria, saying, Go and see.

And when they went after them toward the Jordan, all the way was full of garments and equipment that the Syrians had thrown off in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.

And the people went forth and plundered the camp of the Syrians. And a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Jehovah.

Now the king had appointed the captain on whose arm he leaned to have charge of the gate; and the people trampled him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king had come down to him.

So just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two seahs of barley will be sold for a shekel and a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel at about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria;

And the captain had answered the man of God and said, Even if Jehovah made windows in heaven, could this thing happen? and the man of God had said, Your eyes shall indeed see it, but you shall not eat from it;

So it happened to him; for the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.

Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, Rise up, and you and your household go and dwell wherever you can; for Jehovah has called for a famine, and it will also come upon the land for seven years.

So the woman rose up and did according to the word of the man of God. And she and her household went and dwelt in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

And at the end of the seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. And she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and her land.

And the king was talking to Gehazi the attendant of the man of God, saying, Recount to me all the great things that Elisha has done.

And while Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead boy to life, there came the woman whose son he had restored to life, crying to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, O my lord the king, this is the woman, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.

And the king asked the woman, and she recounted it to him. And the king appointed a certain officer for her, saying, Restore all that was hers and all the produce of her land from the day that she left the country until now.

And Elisha went to Damascus. And Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick. And it was told him, saying, The man of God has come here.

And the king said to Hazael, Take a gift with you, and go to meet the man of God; and inquire of Jehovah through him, saying, Will I recover from this sickness?

So Hazael went to meet him; and he took a gift with him, even all good things of Damascus, forty camel loads. And he came and stood before him and said, Your son Ben-hadad the king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, Will I recover from this sickness?

And Elisha said to him,  ¹Go and say to him, You shall certainly recover; however Jehovah has shown me that he shall certainly die.

And he fixed his gaze and stared at him until he was ashamed. Then the man of God began to weep.

And Hazael said, Why are you weeping, my lord? And he said, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: Their strongholds you will set on fire, and their choice young men you will slay with the sword, and their little ones you will dash to pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip open.

And Hazael said, But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha said, Jehovah has shown me that you will be king over Syria.

And he went from Elisha and came to his master. And his master said to him, What did Elisha say to you? And he said, He told me that you shall certainly recover.

But on the next day he took the heavy covering over Ben-hadad and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, so that he died; and Hazael reigned in his place.

Now in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab, the king of Israel, while Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, began to reign.

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

And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel and as the house of Ahab had done, for Ahab's daughter was his wife; and he did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah.

But Jehovah would not destroy Judah, because of  ¹David His servant, as He had promised him that for his sake He would provide a lamp for his children always.

In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and they installed a king over themselves.

So  ¹Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him. And he rose up at night and struck the Edomites all around him and the captains of the chariots, but his people fled to their tents.

So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, as it is to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

And the rest of the acts of Joram and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

And Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David.

And Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, the king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, the king of Judah, began to reign.

Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the  ¹daughter of Omri the king of Israel.

And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the house of Ahab; for he was a son-in-law to the house of Ahab.

And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to fight with Hazael the king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead. And the Syrians struck Joram.

And Joram the king returned to heal in Jezreel of his wounds that the Syrians had inflicted on him in Ramah when he fought with Hazael the king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, the king of Judah, went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was sick.