7Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. It was told him, saying, |The man of God has come here.|


In Context

4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, |Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.|

5 It happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, that behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, |My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.|

6 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, |Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.|

7 Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. It was told him, saying, |The man of God has come here.|

8 The king said to Hazael, |Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'|

9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, |Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'|

2 Kings 8:7 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:7Elisha went to Damascus, and Ben- Hadad king of Aram was ill. When the king was told, "The man of God has come all the way up here,"

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:7Eliseus also came to Damascus, and Benadad king of Syria was sick: and they told him, saying: The man of God is come hither.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him saying, The man of God is come hither.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told to him, saying, The man of God hath come hither.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7And Elisha cometh in to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram is sick, and it is declared to him, saying, 'The man of God hath come hither.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come here.