He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead!”

Then he asked, “By which way shall we march?” Jehoram answered, “By the way of the wilderness of Edom.”

Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city; follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” And he led them to Samaria.

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab, doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was son-in-law to the house of Ahab.

Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,

His servants arose, devised a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even made his son pass through fire, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the people of Israel.

Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

By the way that he came, by the same he shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the Lord.

He walked in all the way in which his father walked, served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them;

he abandoned the Lord, the God of his ancestors, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.

He did what was right in the sight of the Lord and walked in all the way of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

Then a breach was made in the city wall; the king with all the soldiers fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the King’s Garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.