Elisha had said to the woman whose son he revived, “Leave immediately with your family and go sojourn somewhere else;asomewhere else Lit. “wherever you may sojourn.” for GOD has decreed a seven-year famine upon the land, and it has already begun.”
While he was telling the king how [Elisha] had revived a dead person, in came the woman whose son he had revived, complaining to the king about her house and farm. “My lord king,” said Gehazi, “this is the woman and this is her son whom Elisha revived.”
The king questioned the woman, and she told him [the story]; so the king assigned a eunuch to her and instructed him: “Restore all her property, and all the revenue from her farm from the time she left the country until now.”
Elisha arrived in Damascus at a time when King Ben-hadad of Aram was ill. The kingbThe king Moved up from v. 8 for clarity. was told, “The agent of God is on his way here,”
Hazael went to meet him, taking with him as a gift forty camel-loads of all the bounty of Damascus. He came and stood before him and said, “Your son, King Ben-hadad of Aram, has sent me to you to ask: Will I recover from this illness?”
Word-by-Word Analysis
וילך
66
חזאל
46
לקראתו
737
ויקח
124
מנחה
103
בידו
22
וכלטוב
73
דמשק
444
משא
341
ארבעים
323
גמל
73
ויבא
19
ויעמד
130
לפניו
176
ויאמר
257
בנך
72
בןהדד
65
מלךארם
331
שלחני
398
אליך
61
לאמר
271
האחיה
29
מחלי
88
זה
12
II Kings 8:10
Gematria: 2749
ויאמראליואלישעלךאמרלולאחיהתחיהוהראנייהוהכימותימות
Elisha said to him, “Go and say to him, ‘You will recover.’ However, GOD has revealed to me that he will die.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
אליו
47
אלישע
411
לך
50
אמרלו
277
לא
31
חיה
23
תחיה
423
והראני
272
יהוה
26
כימות
476
ימות
456
II Kings 8:11
Gematria: 1849
ויעמדאתפניווישםעדבשויבךאישהאלהים
The agent of God kept his face expressionlessckept his face expressionless Meaning of Heb. uncertain. for a long time; and then he wept.
“Why does my lord weep?” asked Hazael. “Because I know,” he replied, “what harm you will do to the Israelite people: you will set their fortresses on fire, put their young men to the sword, dash their little ones in pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”
“But how,” asked Hazael, “can your servant, who is a mere dog, perform such a mighty deed?” Elisha replied, “GOD has shown me a vision of you as king of Aram.”
The next day, [Hazael] took a piece of netting,da piece of netting Meaning of Heb. uncertain. dipped it in water, and spread it over his face. So [Ben-hadad] died, and Hazael succeeded him as king.
In the fifth year of King JorameJoram Throughout this chapter, the name Joram is sometimes written Jehoram. son of Ahab of Israel—Jehoshaphat had been king of Judah—Joram son of King Jehoshaphat of Judah became king.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ובשנת
758
חמש
348
ליורם
286
בןאחאב
64
מלך
90
ישראל
541
ויהושפט
416
מלך
90
יהודה
30
מלך
90
יהורם
261
בןיהושפט
462
מלך
90
יהודה
30
II Kings 8:17
Gematria: 3795
בןשלשיםושתיםשנההיהבמלכוושמנהשנהשניםמלךבירושלם
He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.
He followed the practices of the kings of Israel—whatever the House of Ahab did, for he had married a daughterfdaughter Emendation yields “sister”; cf. v. 26. of Ahab—and he did what was displeasing to GOD.
However, GOD refrained from destroying Judah, for the sake of God’s servant David, in accordance with God’s promise to maintain a lamp for his descendants for all time.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ולאאבה
45
יהוה
26
להשחית
753
אתיהודה
431
למען
190
דוד
14
עבדו
82
כאשר
521
אמרלו
277
לתת
830
לו
36
ניר
260
לבניו
98
כלהימים
155
II Kings 8:20
Gematria: 1818
בימיופשעאדוםמתחתידיהודהוימלכועליהםמלך
During his reign, the Edomites rebelled against Judah’s rule and set up a king of their own.
Joram crossed over to Zair with all his chariotry. He arose by night and attacked the Edomites, who were surrounding him and the chariot commanders; butgHe arose by night … but Meaning of Heb. uncertain. his troops fled to their homes.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויעבר
288
יורם
256
צעירה
375
וכלהרכב
283
עמו
116
ויהיהוא
43
קם
140
לילה
75
ויכה
41
אתאדום
452
הסביב
79
אליו
47
ואת
407
שרי
510
הרכב
227
וינס
126
העם
115
לאהליו
82
II Kings 8:22
Gematria: 2999
ויפשעאדוםמתחתידיהודהעדהיוםהזהאזתפשעלבנהבעתההיא
Thus Edom fell away from Judah, as is still the case. Libnah likewise fell away at that time.
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year; his mother’s name was Athaliah daughter of King Omri of Israel.
He walked in the ways of the House of Ahab and did what was displeasing to GOD, like the House of Ahab, for he was related by marriage to the House of Ahab.
King Joram retired to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted upon him at Ramah, when he fought against King Hazael of Aram. And King Ahaziah son of Joram of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab while he was ill.