Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Hazael - fought against Gath , and took it - This city, with its satrapy or lordship, had been taken from the Philistines by David, (see II Samuel 8:1, and I Chronicles 18:1); and it had continued in the possession of the kings of Judah till this time. On what pretense Hazael seized it, we cannot tell; he had the ultima ratio regum , power to do it, and he wanted more territory.
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