2 Kings 8:7–13

Death of Ben-Hadad

⁷Then Elisha went to Damascus, and ^fBen-Hadad king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, “The man of God has come here.” ⁸And the king said to ^gHazael, ^h“Take a present in your hand, and go to meet the man of God, and ⁱinquire of the Lord by him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this disease?’ ” ⁹So ^jHazael 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?’ ”

¹⁰And Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover.’ However the Lord has shown me that ^khe will really die.” ¹¹Then he ¹set his countenance in a stare until he was ashamed; and the man of God ^lwept. ¹²And Hazael said, “Why is my lord weeping?”

He answered, “Because I know ^mthe evil that you will do to the children of Israel: Their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword; and you ⁿwill dash their children, and rip open their women with child.”

¹³So Hazael said, “But what ^ois your servant—a dog, that he should do this gross thing?”

And Elisha answered, ^p“The Lord has shown me that you will become king over Syria.”