11. Hazael stared at him until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept.
12. Hazael said, “Why are you weeping, my lord?”He said, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their fortresses on fire. You will kill their young men with the sword. You will smash their children and rip open their pregnant women.”
13. Hazael said, “What? Is your servant a dog that he should do this great thing?”And Elisha said, “The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”
14. Then he left Elisha and went to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he said, “He told me that you would surely recover.”
15. But the next day he took a blanket, dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died. And Hazael reigned in his place.
16. In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became king.
17. He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
18. He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. He did evil in the sight of the Lord.
19. Yet the Lord was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of His servant David, since He promised to give a lamp to him and his sons perpetually.
20. In his days Edom rebelled against the rule of Judah, and they put a king over themselves.
21. So Jehoram crossed over to Zair, all his chariots with him, and he rose at night and struck Edom and the captains of their chariots who had surrounded him. But the people fled to their tents.
22. So Edom has been in rebellion against the rule of Judah until this day. Libnah rebelled at the same time.
23. The rest of the deeds of Jehoram and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
24. So Jehoram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
25. In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king.
26. Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king. He reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri, king of Israel.
27. He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Ahab did, for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
28. He went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead, and the Arameans struck Joram.