WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:03.140 Ethan: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:03.257 --> 00:00:04.357 Day 200 and 30 00:00:04.810 --> 00:00:07.240 when the King of Aram was at war with Israel. 00:00:07.570 --> 00:00:11.710 He would confer with his officers and say, we will mobilize our 00:00:11.710 --> 00:00:13.720 forces at such and such a place. 00:00:14.620 --> 00:00:20.080 But immediately, Elisha, the man of God, would warn the King of Israel, do not 00:00:20.080 --> 00:00:24.040 go near that place where the Ians are planning to mobilize their troops There. 00:00:24.685 --> 00:00:28.825 So the King of Israel would send word to the place indicated by the man of God, 00:00:29.635 --> 00:00:34.315 time and again, Elisha warned the king so that he would be on the alert there. 00:00:35.635 --> 00:00:37.855 The King of Aram became very upset over this. 00:00:38.365 --> 00:00:41.635 He called his officers together and demanded, which of you is the 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:45.025 traitor who has been informing the King of Israel of my plans? 00:00:45.715 --> 00:00:46.465 It is not us. 00:00:46.465 --> 00:00:48.955 My Lord the king, one of the officers replied. 00:00:49.570 --> 00:00:54.430 Elisha, the prophet in Israel tells the King of Israel, even the words you 00:00:54.430 --> 00:00:56.350 speak in the privacy of your bedroom. 00:00:57.520 --> 00:00:59.260 Go and find out where he is. 00:00:59.350 --> 00:01:02.320 The king commanded so I can send troops to seize him. 00:01:03.070 --> 00:01:04.360 And the report came back. 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:06.430 Elisha is at Dothan. 00:01:07.180 --> 00:01:11.590 So one night the king of Aram sent a great army with many chariots 00:01:11.590 --> 00:01:13.450 and horses to surround the city. 00:01:14.005 --> 00:01:17.455 When the servant of the man of God got up early the next morning and 00:01:17.460 --> 00:01:22.015 went outside, there were troops, horses, and chariots everywhere. 00:01:22.945 --> 00:01:24.775 Oh, sir, what will we do now? 00:01:24.985 --> 00:01:26.545 The young man cried to Elisha. 00:01:27.745 --> 00:01:28.705 Don't be afraid. 00:01:28.975 --> 00:01:32.725 Elisha told him for There are more on our side than on theirs. 00:01:33.945 --> 00:01:35.425 Then Elisha prayed. 00:01:35.875 --> 00:01:38.875 Oh, Lord, open his eyes and let him see. 00:01:39.550 --> 00:01:44.170 The Lord opened the young man's eyes, and when he looked up, he saw that 00:01:44.170 --> 00:01:49.330 the hillside around Elisha was filled with horses and chariots of fire. 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:54.880 As the aramean army advanced toward him, Elisha prayed, oh 00:01:54.880 --> 00:01:56.860 Lord, please make them blind. 00:01:57.460 --> 00:02:01.000 So the Lord struck them with blindness as Elisha had asked. 00:02:01.930 --> 00:02:05.740 Then Elisha went out and told them, you have come the wrong way. 00:02:06.100 --> 00:02:07.390 This isn't the right city. 00:02:08.095 --> 00:02:11.125 Follow me and I will take you to the man you are looking for. 00:02:12.085 --> 00:02:13.945 And he led them to the city of Samaria. 00:02:15.025 --> 00:02:19.225 As soon as they had entered Samaria, Elisha prayed, oh Lord. 00:02:19.285 --> 00:02:21.565 Now open their eyes and let them see. 00:02:22.255 --> 00:02:25.315 So the Lord opened their eyes and they discovered that they 00:02:25.320 --> 00:02:26.635 were in the middle of Samaria. 00:02:27.505 --> 00:02:30.265 When the King of Israel saw them, he shouted to Elisha, 00:02:31.045 --> 00:02:32.605 my father, should I kill them? 00:02:32.845 --> 00:02:33.775 Should I kill them? 00:02:34.525 --> 00:02:35.545 Of course not. 00:02:35.755 --> 00:02:36.565 Elisha replied. 00:02:37.435 --> 00:02:39.265 Do we kill prisoners of war? 00:02:40.195 --> 00:02:43.915 Give them food and drink and send them home again to their master. 00:02:44.755 --> 00:02:49.135 So the king made a great feast for them and then sent them home to their master. 00:02:50.215 --> 00:02:54.505 After that, the Ian Raiders stayed away from the land of Israel. 00:02:56.395 --> 00:03:01.105 Sometime later, however, king Ben Hayad of Aram mustered his 00:03:01.105 --> 00:03:03.545 entire army and Besiege Samaria. 00:03:04.420 --> 00:03:07.060 As a result, there was a great famine in the city. 00:03:07.660 --> 00:03:12.400 The siege lasted so long that a donkey's head sold for 80 pieces 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:17.650 of silver and a cup of dove's dung sold for five pieces of silver. 00:03:18.430 --> 00:03:23.050 One day, as the king of Israel was walking along the wall of the city, a woman called 00:03:23.050 --> 00:03:26.380 to him, please help me, my Lord, the king. 00:03:27.640 --> 00:03:28.330 He answered. 00:03:29.110 --> 00:03:31.630 If the Lord doesn't help you, what can I do? 00:03:32.305 --> 00:03:36.715 I have neither food from the threshing floor nor wine from the press to give you. 00:03:37.555 --> 00:03:40.135 But then the king asked, what is the matter? 00:03:40.855 --> 00:03:46.465 She replied, this woman said to me, come on, let's eat your son today. 00:03:46.915 --> 00:03:48.715 Then we will eat my son tomorrow. 00:03:49.735 --> 00:03:51.715 So we cooked my son and ate him. 00:03:52.615 --> 00:03:56.305 Then the next day I said to her, kill your son so we can eat him. 00:03:56.785 --> 00:03:58.075 But she has hidden her son. 00:03:59.095 --> 00:04:04.435 When the king heard this, he tore his clothes in despair, and as the king 00:04:04.435 --> 00:04:08.185 walked along the wall, the people could see that he was wearing burlap 00:04:08.185 --> 00:04:09.805 under his robe next to his skin. 00:04:10.645 --> 00:04:15.025 May God strike me and even kill me if I don't separate 00:04:15.145 --> 00:04:16.855 Elisha's head from his shoulders. 00:04:16.855 --> 00:04:21.835 This very day, the king vowed Elijah was sitting in his house with the 00:04:21.835 --> 00:04:25.405 elders of Israel when the king sent a messenger to summon him. 00:04:26.230 --> 00:04:30.910 But before the messenger arrived, Elisha said to the elders, A murderer 00:04:30.910 --> 00:04:32.950 has sent a man to cut off my head. 00:04:33.700 --> 00:04:36.280 When he arrives, shut the door and keep him out. 00:04:37.150 --> 00:04:39.760 We will soon hear his master's steps following him. 00:04:40.810 --> 00:04:45.250 While Elisha was still saying this, the messenger arrived and the king 00:04:45.250 --> 00:04:48.070 said, all this misery is from the Lord. 00:04:48.550 --> 00:04:50.440 Why should I wait for the Lord any longer? 00:04:51.850 --> 00:04:55.300 Elisha replied, listen to this message from the Lord. 00:04:55.870 --> 00:04:58.660 This is what the Lord says by this time. 00:04:58.660 --> 00:05:04.330 Tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, six quarts of choice, flour will cost only one 00:05:04.330 --> 00:05:07.540 piece of silver and 12 quarts of barley. 00:05:07.540 --> 00:05:10.150 Grain will cost only one piece of silver. 00:05:11.140 --> 00:05:15.700 The officer assisting the king said to the man of God, that couldn't happen even 00:05:15.700 --> 00:05:17.680 if the Lord opened the windows of heaven. 00:05:18.550 --> 00:05:22.990 But Elisha replied, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but 00:05:22.990 --> 00:05:24.970 you won't be able to eat any of it. 00:05:26.110 --> 00:05:30.070 Now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the entrance of the city gates. 00:05:30.760 --> 00:05:32.680 Why should we sit here waiting to die? 00:05:32.860 --> 00:05:36.100 They asked each other, we will starve if we stay here. 00:05:36.760 --> 00:05:40.270 But with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. 00:05:41.080 --> 00:05:45.520 So we might as well go out and surrender to the Ian Army if they 00:05:45.520 --> 00:05:47.170 let us live so much the better. 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:50.500 But if they kill us, we would've died anyway. 00:05:51.550 --> 00:05:54.940 So at Twilight, they set out for the camp of the Ians. 00:05:55.585 --> 00:05:59.305 But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there. 00:05:59.785 --> 00:06:04.315 For the Lord had caused the Ian army to hear the clatter of speeding 00:06:04.315 --> 00:06:08.425 chariots and the galloping of horses and the sounds of a great army. 00:06:08.425 --> 00:06:13.465 Approaching the King of Israel has hired the hit tights and Egyptians to attack us. 00:06:13.555 --> 00:06:17.335 They cried to one another, so they panicked and ran into the 00:06:17.335 --> 00:06:22.285 night abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything 00:06:22.285 --> 00:06:24.385 else as they fled for their lives. 00:06:25.945 --> 00:06:29.935 When the men with leprosy arrived at the edge of the camp, they went into 00:06:29.935 --> 00:06:34.915 one tent after another, eating and drinking wine, and they carried off 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:37.555 silver and gold and clothing and hid it. 00:06:38.605 --> 00:06:41.995 Finally, they said to each other, this is not right. 00:06:42.475 --> 00:06:46.105 This is a day of good news and we aren't sharing it with anyone. 00:06:46.705 --> 00:06:50.575 If we wait until morning, some calamity will certainly fall upon us. 00:06:51.265 --> 00:06:54.325 Come on, let's go back and tell the people at the palace. 00:06:55.090 --> 00:06:58.630 So they went back to the city and told the gatekeepers what had happened. 00:06:59.320 --> 00:07:03.160 We went out to the Aian camp, they said, and no one was there. 00:07:03.730 --> 00:07:07.840 The horses and donkeys were tethered, and the tents were all in order, but 00:07:07.845 --> 00:07:09.550 there wasn't a single person around. 00:07:10.690 --> 00:07:13.690 Then the gatekeepers shouted the news to the people in the palace. 00:07:15.010 --> 00:07:17.950 The king got out of bed in the middle of the night and told his 00:07:17.955 --> 00:07:20.530 officers, I know what has happened. 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:23.020 The Ians know we are starving. 00:07:23.230 --> 00:07:25.840 So they have left their camp and have hidden in the fields. 00:07:26.470 --> 00:07:29.470 They're expecting us to leave the city and then they will take 00:07:29.475 --> 00:07:31.060 us alive and capture the city. 00:07:31.810 --> 00:07:36.250 One of his officers replied, we had better send out scouts to check into this. 00:07:36.820 --> 00:07:39.040 Let them take five of the remaining horses. 00:07:39.460 --> 00:07:42.670 If something happens to them, it will be no worse than if they stay 00:07:42.670 --> 00:07:44.620 here and die with the rest of us. 00:07:45.430 --> 00:07:47.740 So two chariots with horses were prepared. 00:07:48.175 --> 00:07:51.745 And the king sent scouts to see what had happened to the Aramean army. 00:07:52.645 --> 00:07:56.815 They went all the way to the Jordan River following a trail of clothing 00:07:56.815 --> 00:08:01.045 and equipment that the Arameans had thrown away in their mad rush to escape. 00:08:02.125 --> 00:08:04.495 The scouts returned and told the king about it. 00:08:05.395 --> 00:08:09.655 Then the people of Samaria rushed out and plundered the Aramean camp. 00:08:10.735 --> 00:08:15.025 So it was true that six quartz of choice flour were sold that 00:08:15.025 --> 00:08:16.615 day for one piece of silver. 00:08:16.990 --> 00:08:20.890 And 12 quarts of barley grain were sold for one piece of silver, 00:08:21.400 --> 00:08:22.990 just as the Lord had promised. 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:27.160 The king appointed his officer to control the traffic at the gate, 00:08:27.370 --> 00:08:31.270 but he was knocked down and trampled to death as the people rushed out. 00:08:31.960 --> 00:08:35.380 So everything happened exactly as the man of God had predicted. 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.490 When the king came to his house, the man of God had said to the king, by 00:08:39.490 --> 00:08:43.690 this time, tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, six quartz of choice, 00:08:43.690 --> 00:08:45.700 flour will cost one piece of silver. 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:49.600 And 12 quarts of barley grain will cost one piece of silver. 00:08:50.020 --> 00:08:53.440 The king's officer had replied that couldn't happen even if the 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:55.060 Lord opened the windows of heaven. 00:08:55.630 --> 00:09:00.370 And the man of God had said, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but 00:09:00.370 --> 00:09:02.320 you won't be able to eat any of it. 00:09:02.920 --> 00:09:06.700 And so it was for the people, trampled him to death at the gate, 00:09:08.800 --> 00:09:12.460 Elisha had told the woman whose son he had brought back to life. 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:15.820 Take your family and move to some other place. 00:09:16.210 --> 00:09:20.350 For the Lord has called for a famine on Israel that will last for seven years. 00:09:21.250 --> 00:09:24.610 So the woman did as the man of God instructed, she took her 00:09:24.610 --> 00:09:28.060 family and settled in the land of the Philistines for seven years. 00:09:28.060 --> 00:09:32.680 The after the famine ended, she returned from the land of the Philistines 00:09:33.010 --> 00:09:36.280 and she went to see the king about getting back her house and land. 00:09:37.090 --> 00:09:42.100 As she came in, the king was talking with Gaza, the servant of the man of God. 00:09:42.730 --> 00:09:46.150 The king had just said, tell me some stories about the 00:09:46.155 --> 00:09:47.800 great things Elisha has done. 00:09:48.070 --> 00:09:51.670 And Gaza was telling the king about the time Elisha had 00:09:51.675 --> 00:09:52.960 brought a boy back to life. 00:09:53.740 --> 00:09:58.330 At that very moment, the mother of the boy walked in to make her appeal 00:09:58.335 --> 00:10:00.190 to the king about her house and land. 00:10:00.940 --> 00:10:03.910 Look, my Lord the king za exclaimed. 00:10:04.330 --> 00:10:07.360 Here is the woman now, and this is her son. 00:10:07.690 --> 00:10:09.940 The very one Elisha brought back to life. 00:10:10.630 --> 00:10:11.530 Is this true? 00:10:11.740 --> 00:10:17.440 The King asked her and she told him the story, so he directed one of his officials 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:22.090 to see that everything she had lost was restored to her, including the value 00:10:22.090 --> 00:10:24.130 of any crops that had been harvested. 00:10:24.135 --> 00:10:30.190 During her absence, Elijah went to Damascus, the capital of Aram, 00:10:30.520 --> 00:10:32.560 where King Ben Hayad lay sick. 00:10:33.040 --> 00:10:36.790 When someone told the king that the man of God had come, the king said to 00:10:36.820 --> 00:10:39.820 Zeel, take a gift to the man of God. 00:10:40.345 --> 00:10:43.795 Then tell him to ask the Lord, will I recover from this illness? 00:10:44.815 --> 00:10:50.815 Soze loaded down 40 camels with the finest products of Damascus as a gift for Elisha. 00:10:51.325 --> 00:10:56.785 He went to him and said, your servant Ben Hayad, the King of Arum, has sent me to 00:10:56.785 --> 00:10:59.275 ask, will I recover from this illness? 00:11:00.115 --> 00:11:02.755 And Elisha replied, go and tell him. 00:11:03.295 --> 00:11:04.675 You will surely recover. 00:11:05.245 --> 00:11:08.725 But actually the Lord has shown me that he will surely die. 00:11:09.910 --> 00:11:15.370 Elisha stared at Hazael with a fixed gaze until Hazael became uneasy. 00:11:16.300 --> 00:11:18.250 Then the man of God started weeping. 00:11:18.910 --> 00:11:19.600 What's the matter? 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:20.170 My Lord? 00:11:20.500 --> 00:11:21.640 Hazael asked him. 00:11:22.540 --> 00:11:27.520 Elisha replied, I know the terrible things you will do to the people of Israel. 00:11:28.090 --> 00:11:32.380 You will burn their fortified cities, kill their young men with the sword. 00:11:32.800 --> 00:11:36.940 Dash their little children to the ground and rip open their pregnant women. 00:11:37.690 --> 00:11:38.830 Haze responded. 00:11:39.100 --> 00:11:43.390 How could a nobody like me ever accomplish such great things? 00:11:44.380 --> 00:11:49.060 Elisha answered, the Lord has shown me that you are going to be the king of Aram. 00:11:49.930 --> 00:11:55.630 When haze left Elisha and went back, the king asked him, what did Elisha tell you? 00:11:56.410 --> 00:11:57.730 And Hazel replied. 00:11:57.970 --> 00:12:00.790 He told me that you will surely recover. 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:06.460 But the next day, Hazael took a blanket, soaked it in water. 00:12:06.865 --> 00:12:09.805 And held it over the king's face until he died. 00:12:10.585 --> 00:12:13.375 Then Hazael became the next king of Aram. 00:12:15.505 --> 00:12:20.275 Horam son of King, Jehoshaphat of Judah began to rule over Judah 00:12:20.365 --> 00:12:24.475 in the fifth year of the Reign of Joram, son of Ahab, king of Israel. 00:12:25.375 --> 00:12:29.725 Jehoram was 32 years old when he became king, and he reigned 00:12:29.725 --> 00:12:31.375 in Jerusalem eight years. 00:12:32.245 --> 00:12:35.905 But Horam followed the example of the Kings of Israel and was 00:12:35.905 --> 00:12:40.195 as wicked as King Ahab for he had married one of Ahab's daughters. 00:12:40.945 --> 00:12:45.385 So Horam did what was evil in the Lord's sight, but the Lord did not 00:12:45.385 --> 00:12:49.495 want to destroy Judah for he had promised his servant David, that 00:12:49.500 --> 00:12:53.785 his descendants would continue to rule shining like a lamp forever. 00:12:55.405 --> 00:12:58.975 During Jem's reign, the Edomites revolted against Judah. 00:12:59.305 --> 00:13:00.595 And crowned their own king. 00:13:01.165 --> 00:13:05.455 So Horam went with all his chariots to attack the town of Zayar. 00:13:06.205 --> 00:13:06.715 The Edam. 00:13:06.715 --> 00:13:11.005 I surrounded him and his chariot commanders, but he went out at night and 00:13:11.010 --> 00:13:12.985 attacked them undercover of darkness. 00:13:13.705 --> 00:13:17.125 But Jem's army deserted him and fled to their homes. 00:13:17.935 --> 00:13:21.325 So Edam has been independent from Judah to this day. 00:13:22.045 --> 00:13:25.315 The town of Lyna also revolted about that same time. 00:13:27.040 --> 00:13:31.600 The rest of the events in RA's Reign and everything he did are recorded in the 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:33.520 book of the history of the Kings of Judah. 00:13:34.300 --> 00:13:38.620 When Horam died, he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. 00:13:39.310 --> 00:13:42.550 Then his son Aah, became the next king. 00:13:44.560 --> 00:13:47.410 This concludes today's Immer reading experience. 00:13:47.530 --> 00:13:48.760 Thank you for joining us.