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the captain had answered the man of God, "Even if the Lord were to make windows in the sky, could such a thing happen?" And he had answered, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat from it."

So the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God; she went with her household and settled in the land of the Philistines seven years.

Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done."

Elisha went to Damascus while King Ben-hadad of Aram was ill. When it was told him, "The man of God has come here,"

the king said to Hazael, "Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God. Inquire of the Lord through him, whether I shall recover from this illness."

He fixed his gaze and stared at him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept.

So Jehu got up and went inside; the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, "Thus says the Lord the God of Israel: I anoint you king over the people of the Lord , over Israel.

But Jehu was not careful to follow the law of the Lord the God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he caused Israel to commit.

Then the man of God was angry with him, and said, "You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Aram until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Aram only three times."

He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord , the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had done,

This occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods

The people of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the Lord their God. They built for themselves high places at all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city;

They would not listen but were stubborn, as their ancestors had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.

They rejected all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves cast images of two calves; they made a sacred pole, worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.

So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land; therefore he has sent lions among them; they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."

Then the king of Assyria commanded, "Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there; let him go and live there, and teach them the law of the god of the land."

but you shall worship the Lord your God; he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies."

He trusted in the Lord the God of Israel; so that there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah after him, or among those who were before him.