2 Kings 8:11-29

Then he stared steadily at him until he was ashamed.  The man of God wept,  and Hazael asked, “Why is my lord weeping? ” He replied, “Because I know the evil you will do to the people of Israel. You will set their fortresses on fire. You will kill their young men with the sword. You will dash their children to pieces. You will rip open their pregnant women.”  Hazael said, “How could your servant, a mere dog,  do such a mighty deed? ” Elisha answered, “The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”  Hazael left Elisha and went to his master, who asked him, “What did Elisha say to you? ” He responded, “He told me you are sure to recover.” The next day Hazael took a heavy cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over the king’s face. Ben-hadad died, and Hazael reigned in his place. In the fifth year  of Israel’s King Joram  son of Ahab, Jehoram  , son of Jehoshaphat became king of Judah, replacing his father.  , He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.  He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for Ahab’s daughter was his wife. He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.  For the sake of his servant David, the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah, since he had promised to give a lamp  , to David and his sons forever.  During Jehoram’s reign, Edom rebelled against Judah’s control and appointed their own king.  So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. Then at night he set out to attack the Edomites who had surrounded him and the chariot commanders, but his troops fled to their tents.  So Edom is still in rebellion against Judah’s control today. Libnah  also rebelled at that time. The rest of the events of Jehoram’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.  Jehoram rested with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David, and his son Ahaziah became king in his place.  In the twelfth year of Israel’s King Joram son of Ahab,  Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.  Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, granddaughter of Israel’s King Omri.  He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the Lord’s sight like the house of Ahab,  for his father had married into  the house of Ahab. Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to fight against King Hazael  of Aram in Ramoth-gilead,  and the Arameans wounded Joram. So King Joram returned to Jezreel  to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him in Ramoth-gilead  when he fought against Aram’s King Hazael.  Then Judah’s King Ahaziah son of Jehoram went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab since Joram was ill.