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2 Kings 8:14
So Hazael left Elisha and went to his master, who asked him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he replied, “He told me that you would surely recover.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Hazael departs from Elisha and returns to his master, the king of Aram, who immediately asks what the prophet told him.
The words — The Hebrew verbs וַ/יֵּ֣לֶךְ (va/i.Ye.lekh, "and he went") and וַ/יָּבֹא֙ (va/i.ya.Vo', "and he came") bookend the verse, literally tracking Hazael’s physical movement from the prophet to his royal master.
The thread — The verse directly continues the narrative of 2 Kings 8:10, where Elisha tells a dying king he will recover while privately receiving God's decree of death, and parallels the calculated betrayal in Matthew 26:16 where an agent seeks an opportunity to act against his master.
Why it lands — The text records Hazael’s deliberate misrepresentation of Elisha’s words to secure his own rise, requiring readers to distinguish between political deception and the unannounced fulfillment of divine prophecy.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 8:10 Elisha answered, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover.’ But the LORD has shown me that in fact he will die.”
- 2 Kings 5:25 When Gehazi went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Gehazi, where have you been?” “Your servant did not go anywhere,” he replied.
- Matthew 26:16 So from then on Judas looked for an opportunity to betray Jesus.