Gen Z: 2 Kings 8
1Elisha told the woman whose son he brought back to life, "Get up, take your fam, and bounce wherever you can, 'cause the Lord's calling a famine for seven years, no cap."
2The woman got up and did what the man of God said; she vibed with her fam and chilled in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
3After seven years, the woman bounced back from the Philistines and went to holler at the king about her house and land.
4The king was chatting with Gehazi, Elisha's servant, asking, "Yo, tell me all the dope stuff Elisha's done."
5While Gehazi was spilling the tea about how Elisha brought a dead dude back to life, the woman whose son he revived showed up to the king for her house and land. Gehazi was like, "My lord, this is the woman, and this is her son—Elisha's the GOAT."
6When the king asked the woman, she kept it real. The king told an officer, "Make sure she gets everything back, plus all the crops since she dipped."
7Elisha rolled up to Damascus, and Ben-hadad, the king of Syria, was sick; word got to him that the man of God was in town.
8The king told Hazael, "Grab a gift and go meet the man of God. Ask him if I'm gonna bounce back from this sickness."
9So Hazael went to meet him, bringing a lit gift from Damascus, like forty camels worth, and said, "Your son Ben-hadad, king of Syria, sent me to ask if I'm gonna recover from this disease."
10Elisha replied, "Go tell him he’ll be fine, but the Lord showed me he’s actually gonna die, fr."
11He was straight up shook, like, until he felt embarrassed: and the man of God was just crying, no cap.
12Hazael was like, "Why you crying, fam?" And he said, "Cause I know the savage stuff you gonna do to Israel: you gonna burn their strongholds and take out their young men, and even mess with their kids and pregnant women."
13Hazael was like, "Wait, am I a dog? I ain't about to do all that!" And Elisha was like, "Nah, bro, God showed me you gonna be king of Syria."
14So he bounced from Elisha and went back to his master; who asked, "What did Elisha say?" And he replied, "He said you gonna be good, fr."
15The next day, he took a thick cloth, soaked it in water, and put it on his face, and then he was out: Hazael took over, periodt.
16In the fifth year of Joram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, and Jehoram, Jehoshaphat's son, started his reign.
17Dude was 32 when he began to reign; he held it down for eight years in Jerusalem.
18He walked the same path as the kings of Israel, just like Ahab's fam: cause Ahab's daughter was his wife, and he was doing evil in the Lord's eyes.
19But the Lord wasn’t gonna wipe out Judah for David's sake, keeping that light on for him and his kids, no cap.
20During his reign, Edom was like, "Nah, we out," and they crowned their own king.
21So Joram pulled up to Zair with all the chariots, and he was like, "Let’s pop off at night," and took out the Edomites surrounding him, while the squad dipped back to their tents.
22But Edom was like, "Nah," and bounced from Judah ever since. Libnah also decided to switch up at the same time.
23All the other things Joram did, are they not in the chronicles of the kings of Judah? That’s gotta be a vibe check.
24Joram passed away and got buried with his fam in the city of David; then his son Ahaziah took the throne.
25In Joram's twelfth year, Ahaziah, son of Jehoram from Judah, started his reign.
26Ahaziah was just 22 when he started ruling, and he held it down for a year in Jerusalem. His mom was Athaliah, daughter of Omri, king of Israel.
27He was walking in Ahab's footsteps, doing some sus stuff in God’s eyes, since he was married into Ahab's fam.
28He teamed up with Joram, son of Ahab, to go to war against Hazael, king of Syria, in Ramoth-gilead; the Syrians got some hits on Joram.
29King Joram bounced back to Jezreel to heal from the wounds the Syrians gave him at Ramah, while Ahaziah, son of Jehoram, went to check on him since he was sick.