19 the man of God became angry against him. And he said: 'If you had struck five or six or seven times, you would have struck down Syria, even until it was consumed. But now you will strike it three times.'
20 Then Elisha died, and they buried him. And the robbers from Moab came into the land in the same year.
21 But certain ones who were burying a man saw the robbers, and they cast the dead body into the sepulcher of Elisha. But when it had touched the bones of Elisha, the man revived, and he stood upon his feet.
22 Now Hazael, the king of Syria, afflicted Israel during all the days of Jehoahaz.
23 But the Lord took pity on them, and he returned to them, because of his covenant, which he had made with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. And he was not willing to destroy them, nor to cast them out completely, even to the present time.
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