⁸ So the king said to Hazael,^(A) “Take a gift^(B) with you and go meet the man of God. Inquire of the Lord through him, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’” ^(C)

⁹ Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift: forty camel-loads of all the finest products of Damascus. When he came and stood before him, he said, “Your son,^(D) King Ben-hadad of Aram, has sent me to ask you, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”