"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."

Hazael went back to Benhadad, who asked him, "What did Elisha say?" "He told me that you would certainly get well," Hazael answered.

So David and his six hundred men went over at once to Achish son of Maoch, king of Gath.

he saddled his donkey and went to King Achish in Gath, to find his slaves. He found them and brought them back home.

Beriah and Shema were heads of families that settled in the city of Aijalon and drove out the people who lived in the city of Gath.

Some time later King David attacked the Philistines again and defeated them. He took out of their control the city of Gath and its surrounding villages.

(SEE 42:13)

As the time drew near when Jesus would be taken up to heaven, he made up his mind and set out on his way to Jerusalem.

But the people there would not receive him, because it was clear that he was on his way to Jerusalem.

When autumn came that year, the Syrian army attacked Judah and Jerusalem, killed all the leaders, and took large amounts of loot back to Damascus.

The Syrian army was small, but the LORD let them defeat a much larger Judean army because the people had abandoned him, the LORD God of their ancestors. In this way King Joash was punished.