the king said to (A)Hazael, (B)“Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God, (C)and inquire of the Lord through him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’” So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camels' loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, (D)“Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’” 10 And Elisha said to him, (E)“Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover,’ but[a] the Lord has shown me that (F)he shall certainly die.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 8:10 Some manuscripts say, ‘You shall certainly not recover,’ for

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