2 Kings 8:7

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Elisha came to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad, the king of Aram, was sick. It was reported to him, "The man of God has come all the way here."

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  • 1 Kgs 11:24 : 24 Gathering men around him, he became the leader of a band of raiders after David defeated Zobah's forces. They went to Damascus, lived there, and established a kingdom in Damascus.
  • 2 Kgs 6:24 : 24 Afterward, Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, gathered his entire army and marched up to lay siege to Samaria.
  • 1 Kgs 20:1 : 1 Ben-Hadad, the king of Aram, gathered his entire army along with thirty-two kings, horses, and chariots. He marched up, laid siege to Samaria, and attacked it.
  • 1 Kgs 20:34 : 34 Ben-Hadad said to him, 'I will restore the cities that my father took from your father, and you can set up marketplaces for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.' Ahab replied, 'On the basis of a treaty, I will let you go.' So he made a treaty with him and let him go.
  • 2 Kgs 1:9-9 : 9 Then the king sent a captain with his fifty men to Elijah. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of the hill, and said to him, 'Man of God, the king says, "Come down."' 10 Elijah answered the captain, 'If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!' Then fire came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty.
  • 2 Kgs 2:15 : 15 The company of the prophets from Jericho saw him from a distance and said, 'The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha.' And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.
  • 2 Kgs 6:12 : 12 One of his servants said, "No, my lord the king; Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom."
  • 1 Kgs 13:1 : 1 Behold, a man of God came from Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel, and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to offer incense.
  • 1 Kgs 15:18 : 18 Then Asa took all the silver and gold left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace and placed them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, with this message:
  • Gen 14:15 : 15 He divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and attacked them. He pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.
  • Deut 33:1 : 1 This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave to the Israelites before his death.
  • Judg 16:2 : 2 When the Gazites were told, 'Samson has come here,' they surrounded the place and waited for him all night at the city gate. They remained quiet throughout the night, saying, 'At dawn, we will kill him.'
  • Isa 7:8 : 8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.
  • Acts 17:6 : 6 When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city rulers, shouting, 'These men who have turned the world upside down have now come here too.'

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  • 2 Kgs 8:8-11
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    8The king said to Hazael, "Take a gift in your hand, go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"

    9Hazael went to meet him, taking a gift in his hand that included all the finest products of Damascus, loaded on forty camels. When he came, he stood before him and said, "Your son, Ben-Hadad, the king of Aram, has sent me to ask, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"

    10Elisha said to him, "Go and say to him, 'You will certainly recover,' but the LORD has shown me that he will surely die."

    11Elisha fixed his gaze on him and stared until Hazael was embarrassed. Then the man of God began to weep.

  • 2 Kgs 8:13-14
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    13Hazael said, "How could your servant, a mere dog, accomplish such a great thing?" Elisha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you will become king over Aram."

    14Then Hazael left Elisha and returned to his master, who asked him, "What did Elisha say to you?" Hazael replied, "He told me that you will certainly recover."

  • 2 Kgs 5:6-11
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    6He brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read: 'Now, when this letter reaches you, know that I have sent you my servant Naaman, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.'

    7When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, 'Am I God, able to kill and bring to life, that this man sends someone to me to cure him of his leprosy? See for yourselves that he is seeking a quarrel with me!'

    8When Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent the king this message: 'Why have you torn your clothes? Let Naaman come to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.'

    9So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha’s house.

    10Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, 'Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be cleansed.'

    11But Naaman became angry and left, saying, 'I thought he would surely come out to me, stand, call on the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the spot, and cure the leprosy.'

  • 1 Kgs 20:2
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    2He sent messengers to Ahab, king of Israel, in the city,

  • 2 Kgs 6:8-9
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    8Now the king of Aram was waging war against Israel. After consulting with his servants, he said, "I will camp in such-and-such a place."

    9But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: "Be careful not to pass this place, because the Arameans are going down there."

  • 1 Kgs 19:15
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    15The LORD said to him, 'Go back the way you came, and go to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Aram.'

  • 2 Kgs 1:6-7
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    6They answered, 'A man came to meet us and said, "Go back to the king who sent you and tell him: This is what the LORD says: 'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore, you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will surely die.'"'

    7The king asked them, 'What kind of man was it who came to meet you and told you this?'

  • 1 Kgs 20:32-33
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    32So they put sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads, went to the king of Israel, and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad says: 'Please let me live.'" The king answered, "Is he still alive? He is my brother."

    33The men interpreted this as a good sign and quickly seized on it, saying, 'Yes, Ben-Hadad is your brother!' The king said, 'Go and bring him.' So Ben-Hadad came out to him, and Ahab had him brought into his chariot.

  • 2 Kgs 5:3-4
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    3She said to her mistress, 'If only my master would go to see the prophet in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.'

    4Naaman went and told his master, saying, 'This is what the girl from the land of Israel said.'

  • 2 Kgs 8:4
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    4Meanwhile, the king was speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please tell me about all the great deeds Elisha has done."

  • 1 Kgs 20:28
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    28Then a man of God approached the king of Israel and said, "This is what the LORD says: Because the Arameans think that the LORD is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the LORD."

  • 2 Kgs 8:28-29
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    28Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to fight against Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth Gilead. The Arameans wounded Joram in the battle.

    29Then King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah in his battle against Hazael king of Aram. Ahaziah son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab because he was wounded.

  • 2 Chr 22:6
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    6Jehoram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received at Ramoth while fighting against Hazael, king of Aram. Then Azariah (also called Ahaziah), son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to visit Jehoram, son of Ahab, in Jezreel because he was wounded.

  • 2 Kgs 6:11-13
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    11The king of Aram became very upset about this. He called his servants and said to them, "Will you not tell me who among us is on the side of the king of Israel?"

    12One of his servants said, "No, my lord the king; Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom."

    13So the king said, "Go and see where he is, so I can send men to capture him." When he was told, "He is in Dothan,"

  • 2 Kgs 5:1
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    1Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master's sight and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant warrior, but he had leprosy.

  • 2 Kgs 5:13-15
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    13But his servants approached him and said, 'My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he says to you, “Wash and be cleansed”? '

    14So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had instructed him. His flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.

    15Then Naaman and all his entourage returned to the man of God. They stood before him, and Naaman said, 'Now I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. Please accept a gift from your servant.'

  • 1 Kgs 20:22
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    22Afterward, the prophet came to the king of Israel and said, 'Strengthen your position and see what you must do, because next spring the king of Aram will come up against you again.'

  • 2 Kgs 6:24
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    24Afterward, Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, gathered his entire army and marched up to lay siege to Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 17:8
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    8Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 13:6-7
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    6Then the king answered and said to the man of God, 'Entreat now the favor of the LORD your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored to me.' So the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him and became as it was before.

    7The king said to the man of God, 'Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.'

  • 1 Kgs 13:14
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    14He went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, 'Are you the man of God who came from Judah?' He replied, 'I am.'

  • 2 Kgs 6:31-33
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    31He said, "May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!"

    32Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, "Do you see how this murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master's footsteps behind him?"

    33While he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. The king said, "This disaster is from the LORD. Why should I wait any longer for the LORD?"

  • 2 Kgs 1:2-3
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    2Ahaziah fell through the lattice in the upper chamber of his palace in Samaria, injuring himself. He sent messengers, instructing them, 'Go and inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this illness.'

    3But the angel of the LORD told Elijah the Tishbite, 'Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them, "Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?"'

  • 2 Kgs 1:9
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    9Then the king sent a captain with his fifty men to Elijah. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of the hill, and said to him, 'Man of God, the king says, "Come down."'

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    4Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:

  • 2 Kgs 1:16
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    16Elijah said to the king, 'This is what the LORD says: "You have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel to consult? Because of this, you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will surely die."'

  • 2 Kgs 3:12
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    12Jehoshaphat said, "The word of the LORD is with him." So the king of Israel, Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom went down to him.

  • 2 Kgs 5:21
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    21So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from his chariot to meet him and asked, 'Is everything all right?'