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10 Elisha said to him, “Go; say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover,’ but Yahweh has shown me that he certainly will die.” 11 Then the man fixed his gaze and stared at him[a] until he was ashamed and the man of God cried. 12 Then Hazael asked, “Why is my lord crying?” He said, “Because I know what evil you will do to the Israelites.[b] You will set their fortifications on fire,[c] and you will kill their young men with the sword. Their little ones you will dash to pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip open!”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 8:11 Literally “caused his face to stand and set it”
  2. 2 Kings 8:12 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  3. 2 Kings 8:12 Literally “you will send their fortifications with the fire”