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Then Hazael said unto him, Why does my lord weep? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the sons of Israel; their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword and wilt dash their children and rip up their women with child.
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And Hazael said, But what,
is thy slave a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD has showed me that thou
shalt be king over Syria.
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So he departed from Elisha and came to his master; who said to him, What did Elisha say to thee? And he answered, He told me
that thou may surely recover.
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And it came to pass on the next day that he took a thick cloth and dipped
it in water and spread
it on his face so that he died; and Hazael reigned in his stead.
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And in the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoshaphat
being then king of Judah, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, began to reign.
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He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
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He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife, and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
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Yet with all this, the LORD would not destroy Judah for David, his slave’s sake, as he had promised him to give him always a light of his sons.
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In his days, Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah and made a king over themselves.
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So Joram went over to Zair and all his chariots with him, and he rose up by night and smote the Edomites, who had compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled into their tents.
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Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.