# Elisha and Hazael - The Book of 2 Kings

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 15 Dec 2023, 10 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 110. Get ready for an exciting episode of our podcast, where we delve into a captivating story from the Book of 2 Kings! We'll hear about a mother and her son, who were saved from famine thanks to the prophet Elisha's warning. But that's just the beginning! We'll also discover how the mother's faith and perseverance helped her regain her home and land, and we'll unravel the intriguing tale of Elisha, King Aram, and his servant Hazael. This story is a thrilling mix of miracles, prophecy, and unexpected turns, perfect for young listeners eager to explore the wonders of the Bible! Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Elisha said to him, Go, tell him you will surely recover. However,
[0:05] Speaker 1: the Lord has shown me that he.
[0:07] Speaker 2: Will surely die.
[0:08] Speaker 1: 2 Kings 8 10 Dear God, thank you for all
[0:14] Speaker 1: the faithful prophets who spoke your truth and obeyed your voice.
[0:18] Speaker 1: Help us to be like those servants as we tell
[0:21] Speaker 1: others about the truth of your word. Help us to
[0:24] Speaker 1: remember that you speak to us in the pages of
[0:27] Speaker 1: our Bibles, and we can trust that everything you say
[0:32] Speaker 1: is completely true. Thank you for giving us your word.
[0:35] Speaker 2: And keeping all of your promises.
[0:38] Speaker 1: In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
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[1:15] Speaker 4: In our last story, Alicia said there would be an
[1:20] Speaker 4: end to the famine. So four lepers went into the
[1:24] Speaker 4: city and found that the Arameans had fled.
[1:27] Speaker 2: So the people came.
[1:28] Speaker 4: And ate all the food in the Aramean camp. In
[1:32] Speaker 4: this story, Elisha will help the Shunammite woman again and
[1:36] Speaker 4: also predict evil coming from Hazael. As inspired by Second Kings.
[1:46] Speaker 2: Hi, this is Joy Sabler. I'm glad you're back.
[1:49] Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me today for the Kids Bible in
[1:52] Speaker 1: a Year podcast. Today's story has some good news and
[1:56] Speaker 1: some bad news. The good news reminds us of how
[2:00] Speaker 1: God is always watching over us. And the bad news
[2:04] Speaker 1: shows us how sometimes things that God allows to happen
[2:08] Speaker 1: might make us sad. Right now in your heart, ask
[2:11] Speaker 1: God to speak to you through his word.
[2:14] Speaker 2: Here we go.
[2:18] Speaker 4: There was a famine coming to the land. So Elisha
[2:21] Speaker 4: told the mother and her son, who he had brought
[2:23] Speaker 4: back to life earlier, to stay somewhere else for a
[2:26] Speaker 4: while because the famine was going to last seven years.
[2:32] Speaker 4: The woman took her family and they traveled to the
[2:34] Speaker 4: land of the Philistines. When the seven years of the
[2:37] Speaker 4: famine was over, the woman wanted to go back to
[2:40] Speaker 4: her land where her house was. When she got there,
[2:43] Speaker 4: she went to the king and begged him for her
[2:46] Speaker 4: land and home back. The king was talking to Gehazi
[2:50] Speaker 4: and asked him, Tell me about the good things that
[2:53] Speaker 4: Elisha has done. Gehazi replied, He brought a baby boy
[2:57] Speaker 4: who was dead back to life, and the woman who
[3:00] Speaker 4: is asking you for her house back was the mother
[3:04] Speaker 4: of that boy. The king went to his servants and
[3:07] Speaker 4: told them to give the woman her land and her
[3:09] Speaker 4: house back and to give her all the money that
[3:12] Speaker 4: was made from the seven years that she was gone.
[3:15] Speaker 4: Elisha went on a journey to Damascus, and the king
[3:18] Speaker 4: of Aram was sick, and he thought he was going
[3:21] Speaker 4: to die. So when he found out that Elisha was there,
[3:25] Speaker 4: he sent his servant Hazael to greet him with a gift.
[3:28] Speaker 4: He told Hazael to ask Elisha if God was going
[3:31] Speaker 4: to heal him and if he was going to recover.
[3:35] Speaker 4: When Hazael asked, Elisha replied, Elisha started crying while he
[3:39] Speaker 4: was telling this to Hazael. Why are you crying?
[3:41] Speaker 3: Asked Hazael.
[3:43] Speaker 4: Elisha answered, I know the harm you will do to
[3:53] Speaker 4: the Israelites. You will set fires to the places, kill
[3:57] Speaker 4: the men, dash the children to the ground, and rip
[4:01] Speaker 4: open the pregnant women. Hazael told Elisha that he would
[4:05] Speaker 4: not do that. Hazael went back to the king and
[4:08] Speaker 4: told him that Elisha said he would get well. The
[4:12] Speaker 4: next day, Hazael took a cloth, soaked it in water,
[4:15] Speaker 4: and spread it over the king's face, and he died. Then, Hazael,
[4:21] Speaker 4: announced himself as king.
[4:27] Speaker 1: Well, as you can see, a lot happened in today's story.
[4:31] Speaker 1: And as it closes, there's a new king in town.
[4:34] Speaker 1: We'll get to that next time. We begin with another
[4:37] Speaker 1: famine in the land as Elisha helped his Shunammite friend
[4:42] Speaker 1: by telling her to take her family to the land
[4:44] Speaker 1: of the Philistines.
[4:46] Speaker 5: Why?
[4:47] Speaker 1: Because there was more food there. This famine would last
[4:50] Speaker 1: for seven whole years. So she took her family there,
[4:54] Speaker 1: and they were safe and fed for seven years. When
[4:57] Speaker 1: they returned, the king, hearing about her story and past,
[5:02] Speaker 1: ensured she received her.
[5:04] Speaker 2: Land, home, and food again. How happy she must have been.
[5:08] Speaker 1: Clearly, God had his hand on this woman and her son.
[5:12] Speaker 1: It's a great reminder for us that when we honor
[5:15] Speaker 1: God and follow him, Although bad things might happen in
[5:19] Speaker 1: this world, God is always taking care of us. He
[5:22] Speaker 1: is always providing everything we need. And as long as
[5:26] Speaker 1: we live, we never have to doubt that. You are
[5:31] Speaker 1: a child of God, and He is a very good
[5:33] Speaker 1: Father to you.
[5:35] Speaker 2: No matter how you.
[5:36] Speaker 1: Feel, He is with you and going ahead of you
[5:39] Speaker 1: to ensure you are always taken care of.
[5:42] Speaker 2: So always remember that.
[5:45] Speaker 1: Because trust me, it can be easy to forget. Our
[5:49] Speaker 1: story then shifts to the king of Aram, who is
[5:52] Speaker 1: very sick and not looking too good. His servant, Hazael,
[5:56] Speaker 1: took a gift to Elisha and asked him if the
[5:59] Speaker 1: king would recover. It sounds like everyone knew where to
[6:03] Speaker 1: go when they needed answers. Elisha's track record was pretty amazing. Then,
[6:10] Speaker 1: as we heard, Elisha said yes, the king would recover.
[6:13] Speaker 2: However.
[6:15] Speaker 1: He would die soon after. Then God's word tells us
[6:19] Speaker 1: that Elisha began to cry. Now why do you think
[6:22] Speaker 1: Elisha was crying? Remember, Elisha was a prophet. A prophet
[6:27] Speaker 1: in the Old Testament.
[6:28] Speaker 2: Was a man or woman.
[6:30] Speaker 1: Called by God to speak for him and tell God's
[6:34] Speaker 1: people what they needed to know.
[6:36] Speaker 2: These prophets loved and served God.
[6:39] Speaker 1: Faithfully, and they would do anything God told them to do.
[6:43] Speaker 1: Sometimes it was exciting being a prophet, especially when you
[6:47] Speaker 1: had good news.
[6:48] Speaker 2: I mean, think about it.
[6:49] Speaker 1: You would get to speak on behalf of the God
[6:52] Speaker 1: of the universe.
[6:54] Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.
[6:55] Speaker 1: A prophet in that time might get to tell someone
[6:58] Speaker 1: that they would soon be healed, that they would win
[7:01] Speaker 1: a huge battle, or that their son would be a
[7:03] Speaker 1: great king one day.
[7:05] Speaker 2: Those were good days. But other days it was not
[7:09] Speaker 2: so fun.
[7:10] Speaker 1: A prophet might have to tell someone that God was
[7:13] Speaker 1: about to punish them.
[7:14] Speaker 2: Someone was about to die.
[7:16] Speaker 1: Or something else terrible was about to happen. And on
[7:20] Speaker 1: those days, a prophet might feel lonely and sad. This
[7:24] Speaker 1: was one of those days for Elisha. Because Elisha knew
[7:28] Speaker 1: that Hazael was going to do awful things to God's people.
[7:33] Speaker 1: Just saying it out loud made him sad. He didn't
[7:36] Speaker 1: want it to be true, but he knew... that since
[7:39] Speaker 1: God had said it, it was going to happen. It's
[7:42] Speaker 1: kind of like watching a movie with a very sad
[7:44] Speaker 1: ending that you've seen a hundred times. Even though you
[7:48] Speaker 1: know how it's going to end, you hope.
[7:50] Speaker 2: It might turn out differently this time.
[7:53] Speaker 1: But if there's one thing we know for sure, it's
[7:55] Speaker 1: that when God says something is going to happen, we
[7:59] Speaker 1: can count on it.
[8:00] Speaker 2: No questions asked.
[8:02] Speaker 1: And even though Elisha is not here today to give
[8:05] Speaker 1: us a special message from God.
[8:07] Speaker 2: We have something even better. We have God's written holy word.
[8:13] Speaker 2: And you know what that means? We can hear God
[8:16] Speaker 2: speak to us anytime we want.
[8:19] Speaker 1: So in closing, Hosea went back home and the Bible
[8:22] Speaker 1: tells us that he killed the king of Aram. Pronounced
[8:26] Speaker 1: himself as king. And well, that wasn't exactly a good thing.
[8:30] Speaker 1: But we'll talk more about that next time. For now,
[8:34] Speaker 1: thanks for listening to today's story. And as always, remember
[8:38] Speaker 1: this one thing. The Bible is the best story ever told.
[8:43] Speaker 1: It's God's story to you.
[8:45] Speaker 2: And it's all true.
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