2 Kings 8:7 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

2 Kings 8:7

5 Now it happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored the dead to life, that there was the woman whose son he had ^arestored to life, appealing to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”

6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed a certain officer for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the land until now.”

Death of Ben-Hadad

7 Then Elisha went to Damascus, and ^aBen-Hadad king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, “The man of God has come here.”

8 And the king said to ^aHazael, ^b“Take a present in your hand, and go to meet the man of God, and ^cinquire of the Lord by him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this disease?’ ”

9 So ^aHazael went to meet him and took a present with him, of every good thing of Damascus, forty camel-loads; and he came and stood before him, and said, “Your son Ben-Hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this disease?’ ”

10 And Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover.’ However the Lord has shown me that ^ahe will really die.”

11 Then he¹ set his countenance in a stare until he was ashamed; and the man of God ^awept.

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HAZAEL KILLS HIS MASTER, AND SUCCEEDS HIM. (II Kings 8:7-15)

Elisha came to Damascus—He was directed thither by the Spirit of God, in pursuance of the mission formerly given to his master in Horeb (I Kings 19:15), to anoint Hazael king of Syria. On the arrival of the prophet being known, Ben-hadad, who was sick, sent to inquire the issue of his disease, and, according to the practice of the heathens in consulting their soothsayers, ordered a liberal present in remuneration for the service.

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