3. At the end of the seven years, she returned to Israel and went to the king to ask for her house and her land to be restored to her.
4. She found the king talking with Gehazi, Elisha's servant; the king wanted to know about Elisha's miracles.
5. While Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought a dead person back to life, the woman made her appeal to the king. Gehazi said to him, “Your Majesty, here is the woman and here is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”
6. In answer to the king's question, she confirmed Gehazi's story, and so the king called an official and told him to give back to her everything that was hers, including the value of all the crops that her fields had produced during the seven years she had been away.
7. Elisha went to Damascus at a time when King Benhadad of Syria was ill. When the king was told that Elisha was there,
8. he said to Hazael, one of his officials, “Take a gift to the prophet, and ask him to consult the Lord to find out whether or not I am going to get well.”
9. So Hazael loaded forty camels with all kinds of the finest products of Damascus and went to Elisha. When Hazael met him, he said, “Your servant King Benhadad has sent me to ask you whether or not he will recover from his illness.”
10. Elisha answered, “The Lord has revealed to me that he will die; but go to him and tell him that he will recover.”
11. Then Elisha stared at him with a horrified look on his face until Hazael became ill at ease. Suddenly Elisha burst into tears.
12. “Why are you crying, sir?” Hazael asked.“Because I know the horrible things you will do against the people of Israel,” Elisha answered. “You will set their fortresses on fire, slaughter their finest young men, batter their children to death, and rip open their pregnant women.”
13. “How could I ever be that powerful?” Hazael asked. “I'm a nobody!”“The Lord has shown me that you will be king of Syria,” Elisha replied.