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Ask a QuestionAnd Joab said to him, "You shall not take the news this day, for you shall take the news another day. But today you shall take no news, because the king's son is dead."
"But he has not invited me - me your servant - nor Zadok the priest, nor Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, nor your servant Solomon.
My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; I will float them in rafts by sea to the place you indicate to me, and will have them broken apart there; then you can take them away. And you shall fulfill my desire by giving food for my household.
So he said, "What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?" And he called them the land of Cabul, as they are to this day.
"Now therefore, send and gather all Israel to me on Mount Carmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table."
So King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time and mustered all Israel.
And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy? Therefore please consider, and see how he seeks a quarrel with me."
So Hazael said, "But what is your servant - a dog, that he should do this gross thing?" And Elisha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you will become king over Syria."
'Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, And lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil;
Remove your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house,
In the twilight, in the evening, In the black and dark night.
A man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth; From the produce of his lips he shall be filled.
Do not look upon me, because I am dark, Because the sun has tanned me. My mother's sons were angry with me; They made me the keeper of the vineyards, But my own vineyard I have not kept.
The Shulamite to the Daughters of Jerusalem He brought me to the banqueting house, And his banner over me was love.
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For the LORD has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against Me;
Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; They are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them.
If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;
I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."
In my hearing the LORD of hosts said, "Truly, many houses shall be desolate, Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant.
And Joab said to him, "You shall not take the news this day, for you shall take the news another day. But today you shall take no news, because the king's son is dead."
"But he has not invited me - me your servant - nor Zadok the priest, nor Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, nor your servant Solomon.
My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; I will float them in rafts by sea to the place you indicate to me, and will have them broken apart there; then you can take them away. And you shall fulfill my desire by giving food for my household.
So he said, "What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?" And he called them the land of Cabul, as they are to this day.
"Now therefore, send and gather all Israel to me on Mount Carmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table."
So King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time and mustered all Israel.
And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy? Therefore please consider, and see how he seeks a quarrel with me."
So Hazael said, "But what is your servant - a dog, that he should do this gross thing?" And Elisha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you will become king over Syria."
'Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, And lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil;
Remove your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house,
In the twilight, in the evening, In the black and dark night.
A man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth; From the produce of his lips he shall be filled.
Do not look upon me, because I am dark, Because the sun has tanned me. My mother's sons were angry with me; They made me the keeper of the vineyards, But my own vineyard I have not kept.
The Shulamite to the Daughters of Jerusalem He brought me to the banqueting house, And his banner over me was love.
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For the LORD has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against Me;
Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; They are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them.
If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;
I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."
In my hearing the LORD of hosts said, "Truly, many houses shall be desolate, Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant.