9So 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?'|


In Context

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?'|

10 Elisha said to him, |Go, tell him, 'You shall surely recover;' however Yahweh has shown me that he shall surely die.|

11 He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept.

2 Kings 8:9 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:9Hazael 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?' "

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:9So 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, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:9And Hazael went to meet him, taking with him presents, and all the good things of Damascus, the burdens of forty camels. And when he stood before him, he said: Thy son Benadad the king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying: Can I recover of this my illness?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:9So 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, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this sickness?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9And Hazael went to meet him, and took with him a present, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden; and he came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-Hadad king of Syria has sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover from this disease?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:9So 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, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this sickness.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9So 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, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9And Hazael goeth to meet him, and taketh a present in his hand, even of every good thing of Damascus, a burden of forty camels, and he cometh in and standeth before him, and saith, 'Thy son Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, hath sent me unto thee, saying, Do I revive from this sickness?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:9So 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, Shall I recover of this disease?