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Now Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and it was told him, saying, The man of God has come here. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>The king said to Hazael, Take a gift in your hand and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> by him, saying, Will I recover from this sickness? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>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, Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, Will I recover from this sickness? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You will surely recover, but the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has shown me that he will certainly die. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>He fixed his gaze steadily <i>on him</i> until he was ashamed, and the man of God wept. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Hazael said, Why does my lord weep? Then he answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their little ones you will dash in pieces, and their women with child you will rip up. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Hazael said, But what is your servant, <i>who is but</i> a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The L<font size="1">ORD</font> has shown me that you will be king over Aram. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>So he departed from Elisha and returned to his master, who said to him, What did Elisha say to you? And he answered, He told me that you would surely recover. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>On the following day, he took the cover and dipped it in water and spread it on his face, so that he died. And Hazael became king in his place. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Another Jehoram Reigns in Judah</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Now in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then the king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah became king. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab became his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>However, the L<font size="1">ORD</font> was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David His servant, since He had promised him to give a lamp to him through his sons always. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him. And he arose by night and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him and the captains of the chariots; but <i>his</i> army fled to their tents. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>So Edom revolted against Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>The rest of the acts of Joram and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Ahaziah Succeeds Jehoram in Judah</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>Ahaziah <i>was</i> twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mothers name <i>was</i> Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, like the house of Ahab <i>had done,</i> because he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/8-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>So King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_kings/8.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_kings/8.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Eliseus also came to Damascus, and Benadad king of Syria was sick: and they told him, saying: The man of God is come hither. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/2_kings/8.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him saying, The man of God is come hither.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_kings/8.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_kings/8.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told to him, saying, The man of God hath come hither.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_kings/8.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. It was told him, saying, "The man of God has come here."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_kings/8.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Elisha cometh in to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram is sick, and it is declared to him, saying, 'The man of God hath come hither.'<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/the_story_of_hazael.htm">The Story of Hazael</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease? 10. And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the Lord hath shewed me that he shall surely die. 11. And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept. 12. And Hazael said, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/the_story_of_hazael.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/milligan/men_of_the_bible_some_lesser-known/hazael.htm">Hazael</a><br></span><span class="snippet">BY REV. J. G. GREENHOUGH, M.A. "But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?"--2 KINGS viii. 13. Hazael was the chief minister and prime favourite of Benhadad, the Syrian king. He had been raised from a humble lot and promoted to that high post by the partiality of his sovereign, who had doubtless discerned his exceptional abilities, and certainly placed implicit trust in him. Just now the king was dangerously ill, and Hazael had been sent to inquire of the prophet of Israel <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/milligan/men_of_the_bible_some_lesser-known/hazael.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">George Milligan—</span><span class="citation2">Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_16_the_fall_of.htm">The Fall of the House of Ahab</a><br></span><span class="snippet">[This chapter is based on 1 Kings 21; 2 Kings 1.] The evil influence that Jezebel had exercised from the first over Ahab continued during the later years of his life and bore fruit in deeds of shame and violence such as have seldom been equaled in sacred history. "There was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up." Naturally of a covetous disposition, Ahab, strengthened and sustained in wrongdoing by Jezebel, had followed <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_16_the_fall_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_7/chapter_ithe_assyrian_revival_and.htm">The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Assur-nazir-pal (885-860) and Shalmaneser III. (860-825)--The kingdom of Urartu and its conquering princes: Menuas and Argistis. Assyria was the first to reappear on the scene of action. Less hampered by an ancient past than Egypt and Chaldaea, she was the sooner able to recover her strength after any disastrous crisis, and to assume again the offensive along the whole of her frontier line. Image Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a bas-relief at Koyunjik of the time of Sennacherib. The initial cut, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_7/chapter_ithe_assyrian_revival_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">G. Maspero—</span><span class="citation2">History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 7</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_prophet_jonah.htm">The Prophet Jonah. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">It has been asserted without any sufficient reason, that Jonah is older than Hosea, Joel, Amos, and Obadiah,--that he is the oldest among the prophets whose written monuments have been preserved to us. The passage in 2 Kings xiv. 25, where it is said, that Jonah, the son of Amittai the prophet, prophesied to Jeroboam the happy success of his arms, and the restoration of the ancient boundaries of Israel, and that this prophecy was confirmed by the event, cannot decide in favour of this assertion, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_prophet_jonah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—</span><span class="citation2">Christology of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_6_redemption_for_man.htm">Redemption for Man Lost to be Sought in Christ. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. The knowledge of God the Creator of no avail without faith in Christ the Redeemer. First reason. Second reason strengthened by the testimony of an Apostle. Conclusion. This doctrine entertained by the children of God in all ages from the beginning of the world. Error of throwing open heaven to the heathen, who know nothing of Christ. The pretexts for this refuted by passages of Scripture. 2. God never was propitious to the ancient Israelites without Christ the Mediator. First reason founded on <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_6_redemption_for_man.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Calvin—</span><span class="citation2">The Institutes of the Christian Religion</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_prophet_joel.htm">The Prophet Joel. </a><br></span><span class="snippet"> PRELIMINARY REMARKS. The position which has been assigned to Joel in the collection of the Minor Prophets, furnishes an external argument for the determination of the time at which Joel wrote. There cannot be any doubt that the Collectors were guided by a consideration of the chronology. The circumstance, that they placed the prophecies of Joel just between the two prophets who, according to the inscriptions and contents of their prophecies, belonged to the time of Jeroboam and Uzziah, is <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_prophet_joel.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—</span><span class="citation2">Christology of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/3_christs_prophetic_office.htm">Christ's Prophetic Office</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet,' &c. Deut 18:85. Having spoken of the person of Christ, we are next to speak of the offices of Christ. These are Prophetic, Priestly, and Regal. 'The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet.' Enunciatur hic locus de Christo. It is spoken of Christ.' There are several names given to Christ as a Prophet. He is called the Counsellor' in Isa 9:9. In uno Christo Angelus foederis completur [The Messenger of the Covenant appears in Christ alone]. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/3_christs_prophetic_office.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">A Body of Divinity</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/ryle/the_upper_room_being_a_few_truths_for_the_times/chapter_xix_tit_2_6_thoughts.htm">Tit. 2:06 Thoughts for Young Men</a><br></span><span class="snippet">WHEN St. Paul wrote his Epistle to Titus about his duty as a minister, he mentioned young men as a class requiring peculiar attention. After speaking of aged men and aged women, and young women, he adds this pithy advice, "Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded" (Tit. 2:6). I am going to follow the Apostle's advice. I propose to offer a few words of friendly exhortation to young men. I am growing old myself, but there are few things I remember so well as the days of my youth. I have a most <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/ryle/the_upper_room_being_a_few_truths_for_the_times/chapter_xix_tit_2_6_thoughts.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Charles Ryle—</span><span class="citation2">The Upper Room: Being a Few Truths for the Times</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_12_commerce.htm">Commerce</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The remarkable change which we have noticed in the views of Jewish authorities, from contempt to almost affectation of manual labour, could certainly not have been arbitrary. But as we fail to discover here any religious motive, we can only account for it on the score of altered political and social circumstances. So long as the people were, at least nominally, independent, and in possession of their own land, constant engagement in a trade would probably mark an inferior social stage, and imply <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_12_commerce.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">Sketches of Jewish Social Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/3_original_sin.htm">Original Sin</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Q-16: DID ALL MANKIND FALL IN ADAM'S FIRST TRANSGRESSION? A: The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity, all mankind descending from him, by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression. 'By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin,' &c. Rom 5:12. Adam being a representative person, while he stood, we stood; when he fell, we fell, We sinned in Adam; so it is in the text, In whom all have sinned.' Adam was the head <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/3_original_sin.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">A Body of Divinity</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_kings/8-7.htm">2 Kings 8:7 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/2_kings/8-7.htm">2 Kings 8:7 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/2_kings/8-7.htm">2 Kings 8:7 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/2_kings/8-7.htm">2 Kings 8:7 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/2_kings/8-7.htm">2 Kings 8:7 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_kings/8-7.htm">2 Kings 8:7 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/2_kings/8-7.htm">2 Kings 8:7 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_kings/8-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 8:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 8:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_kings/8-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 8:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 8:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/2_kings/8-7.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>