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2 Re 8:10

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10 Ed Eliseo gli disse: Va’, digli: Veramente tu guarirai; ma pure il Signore mi ha fatto vedere che per certo egli morrà.

2 Re 8:10 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 8:10

And Elisha said unto him, go, say unto him, thou mayest
certainly recover
That is, of the disease; and there was not only a probability that he might recover of it, it not being a mortal one, but a certainty that he should not die of it, as he did not, but die a violent death, which the prophet predicts in the next clause; though some take these words not as a command, what he should say, but as a prediction of what he would say; that he would go and tell him he should certainly recover, because he would not discourage him, though the prophet assures him in the next clause that he should die: there is a various reading of these words; we follow the marginal reading, but the textual reading is, "say, thou shall not certainly recover", or "in living live"; which agrees with what follows:

howbeit
or "for"

the Lord hath showed me, that he shall surely die;
though not of that sickness, nor a natural death, but a violent one, and that by the hand of this his servant, though he does not express it.

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2 Re 8:10 In-Context

8 E il re disse ad Hazael: Prendi in mano un presente, e vattene a trovar l’uomo di Dio, e domanda per lui il Signore, se io guarirò di questa infermità.
9 Hazael adunque andò a trovarlo; e prese un presente in mano, e il carico di quaranta cammelli di tutte le cose le più squisite di Damasco; e venne, e si presentò davanti a lui, e disse: Ben-hadad, re di Siria, tuo figliuolo, mi ha mandato a te, per dirti: Guarirò io di quest’infermità?
10 Ed Eliseo gli disse: Va’, digli: Veramente tu guarirai; ma pure il Signore mi ha fatto vedere che per certo egli morrà.
11 Poi l’uomo di Dio fermò il viso, e l’affissò sopra Hazael, tanto ch’egli n’ebbe vergogna; poi pianse.
12 Ed Hazael disse: Perchè piange il mio signore? Ed egli disse: Perciocchè io so il male che tu farai a’ figliuoli d’Israele; tu metterai a fuoco e fiamma le lor fortezze, ed ucciderai con la spada i lor giovani, e sbatterai i lor fanciulli, e fenderai le lor donne gravide.
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