Verse 13
2 Kings 8:13
Bible in Basic English
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And Hazael said, How is it possible that your servant, who is only a dog, will do this great thing? And Elisha said, The Lord has made it clear to me that you will be king over Aram.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר חֲזָהאֵ֔ל כִּ֣י מָ֤ה עַבְדְּ/ךָ֙ הַ/כֶּ֔לֶב כִּ֣י יַעֲשֶׂ֔ה הַ/דָּבָ֥ר הַ/גָּד֖וֹל הַ/זֶּ֑ה וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלִישָׁ֔ע הִרְאַ֧/נִי יְהוָ֛ה אֹתְ/ךָ֖ מֶ֥לֶךְ עַל אֲרָֽם
English Translation
And Hazael said, "What is your servant, a dog, that he should do this great thing?" And Elisha said, "The Lord has shown me you will be king over Aram."
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Chapter 8 Context
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Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of...
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So the woman got up and did as the man of God (Elohim) said; and she and the people of her house wer...
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And when the seven years were ended, the woman came back from the land of the Philistines and went t...
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Now the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God (Elohim), saying, Now, give me a...
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And while he was giving the king the story of how Elisha had given life to the dead, the woman whose...
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And in answer to the king's questions, the woman gave him all the story. So the king gave orders to...
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And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, was ill; and they said to him, The man of...
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8
Then the king said to Hazael, Take an offering with you, and go to see the man of God (Elohim) and g...
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So Hazael went to see him, taking with him forty camels with offerings on their backs of every sort...
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10
And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You will certainly get better; but the Lord has made it clea...
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11
And he kept his eyes fixed on him till he was shamed, and the man of God (Elohim) was overcome with...
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12
And Hazael said, Why is my lord weeping? Then he said in answer, Because I see the evil which you wi...
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13
And Hazael said, How is it possible that your servant, who is only a dog, will do this great thing?...
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Then he went away from Elisha and came in to his master, who said to him, What did Elisha say to you...
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Now on the day after, Hazael took the bed-cover, and making it wet with water, put it over Ben-hadad...
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In the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king o...
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He was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.
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He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was...
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But it was not the Lord's purpose to send destruction on Judah, because of David his servant, to who...
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In his time, Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves.
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Then Joram went over to Zair, with all his war-carriages; ... made an attack by night on the Edomite...
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So Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah to this day. And at the same time, Libnah made i...
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Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history...
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And Joram went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of D...
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In the twelfth year that Joram, the son of Ahab, was king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, ki...
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Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. H...
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He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, and did evil in the eyes of the Lord as the family of Aha...
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He went with Joram, the son of Ahab, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Jora...
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So King Joram went back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the bowmen had given him at Ram...
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