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So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present [a]with him, [b]even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this sickness? 10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, [c]say unto him, Thou shalt surely recover; howbeit Jehovah hath showed me that he shall surely die. 11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly upon him, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.

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  1. 2 Kings 8:9 Hebrew in his hand.
  2. 2 Kings 8:9 Or, and
  3. 2 Kings 8:10 Another reading is, say, Thou shalt not recover; for Jehovah etc.