Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him as a gift forty camel-loads of all the finest wares of Damascus. He went in and stood before him, and said, ‘Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, “Will I recover from this illness?”’

10 Elisha answered, ‘Go and say to him, “You will certainly recover.” Nevertheless,[a] the Lord has revealed to me that he will in fact die.’ 11 He stared at him with a fixed gaze until Hazael was embarrassed. Then the man of God began to weep.

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  1. 2 Kings 8:10 The Hebrew may also be read Go and say, ‘You will certainly not recover,’ for.