And Elisha was watching it and he was crying out, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he did not see Elijah again. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, though not like his father and his mother; for he removed the memorial stone of Baal which his father had made.

Now Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What business do you have with me? Go to your father’s prophets and your mother’s prophets.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No, for the Lord has called these three kings together to hand them over to Moab.”

The Shunammite’s Son

When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father, to the reapers.

And he said to his father, “My head, my head!” And his father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

Then his servants approached and spoke to him, saying, “My father, had the prophet told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”

Then the king of Israel when he saw them, said to Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”

Ahaziah Succeeds Jehoram in Judah

So Joram lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his son Ahaziah became king in his place.

And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when you and I were riding together after his father Ahab, that the Lord brought this pronouncement against him:

Then his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his grave with his fathers in the city of David.

select the best and most capable of your master’s sons and seat him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”

And Jehu lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And his son Jehoahaz became king in his place.

So Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred offerings that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had consecrated, and his own sacred offerings, and all the gold that was found among the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then he withdrew from Jerusalem.

For Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and his son Amaziah became king in his place.

And Jehoahaz lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria; and his son Joash became king in his place.

So Joash lay down with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat on his throne; and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

Death of Elisha

When Elisha became sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz again took from the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken in war from the hand of his father Jehoahaz. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.

He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like his father David; he acted in accordance with everything that his father Joash had done.

Now it came about, as soon as the kingdom was firmly in his hand, that he killed his servants who had killed the king, his father.

But he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, in obedience to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, as the Lord commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, nor the sons be put to death for the fathers; but each shall be put to death for his own sin.”

So Jehoash lay down with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and his son Jeroboam became king in his place.

Then they carried him on horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king lay down with his fathers.