In Context

13 Hazael said, |But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?| Elisha answered, |Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Syria.|

14 Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, |What did Elisha say to you?| He answered, |He told me that you would surely recover.|

15 It happened on the next day, that he took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died. Then Hazael reigned in his place.

16 In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being king of Judah then, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.

17 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign. He reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

18 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife. He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.

2 Kings 8:16 in Other Translations