Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, but not as his father and mother had done. He got rid of the sacred stone of Baal that his father had made.

Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why do you want to involve me? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.” “No,” the king of Israel answered, “because it was the Lord who called us three kings together to deliver us into the hands of Moab.”

The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers.

He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’!”

When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “Shall I kill them, my father? Shall I kill them?”

Jehu said to Bidkar, his chariot officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the field that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite. Remember how you and I were riding together in chariots behind Ahab his father when the Lord spoke this prophecy against him:

choose the best and most worthy of your master’s sons and set him on his father’s throne. Then fight for your master’s house.”

Now Elisha had been suffering from the illness from which he died. Jehoash king of Israel went down to see him and wept over him. “My father! My father!” he cried. “The chariots and horsemen of Israel!”

Then Jehoash son of Jehoahaz recaptured from Ben-Hadad son of Hazael the towns he had taken in battle from his father Jehoahaz. Three times Jehoash defeated him, and so he recovered the Israelite towns.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not as his father David had done. In everything he followed the example of his father Joash.

After the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.

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

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father Amaziah had done.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father Uzziah had done.

Jotham rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David, the city of his father. And Ahaz his son succeeded him as king.

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had done.

“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord.

He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he also erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done.

He followed completely the ways of his father, worshiping the idols his father had worshiped, and bowing down to them.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed completely the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.

Josiah’s servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.