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2 Kings 8:7-10

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Elisha Predicts Evil from Hazael

7 Then Elisha came to 1Damascus. Now 2Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and it was told him, saying, "3The man of God has come here *."
8 The king said to 4Hazael, "5Take a gift in your hand and go to meet the man of God, and 6inquire of the LORD by him, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?' "
9 So Hazael went to meet him and took a gift in his hand, even every kind of good thing of Damascus, forty camels' loads; and he came and stood before him and said, "7Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?' "
10 Then Elisha said to him, "8Go, say to him, 'You will surely recover,' but the 9LORD has shown me that he will certainly die."
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2 Kings 8:7-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 8

This chapter gives an account of some advice Elisha had formerly given to the Shunammite woman, and of the success of it, 2Ki 8:1-6 and of the sickness of the king of Syria, who sent to Elisha, then being at Damascus, by Hazael, to know whether he should recover; by whom a message was returned, and Hazael was told by the prophet he should be king of Syria, and exercise great cruelty in Israel, 2Ki 8:7-15 and of the bad reign of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, over Judah, 2Ki 8:16-24 and of the reign of his son Ahaziah, 2Ki 8:25-29.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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