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2 Kings 8
¹⁰ Then Elisha said to him, "Go, say to him, ’You will surely recover,’ but the Lord has shown me that he will certainly die."
¹¹ He fixed his gaze steadily on him until he was ashamed, and the man of God wept.
¹² 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."
¹³ Then Hazael said, "But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?" And Elisha answered, "The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Aram."
¹⁴ 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."
¹⁵ 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.
¹⁶ 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.
¹⁷ He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
¹⁸ 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 Lord.
¹⁹ However, the Lord 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.
²⁰ In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.