列王纪下 8:12

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

哈薛說：“我主為甚麼哭起來了？”他回答：“因為我已知道你要對以色列人施行的惡事。他們的城堡，你要放火焚燒；他們的年輕人，你要用刀殺死；他們的嬰孩，你要摔死；他們的孕婦，你要剖開。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
哈 薛 说 ： 我 主 为 甚 麽 哭 ？ 回 答 说 ： 因 为 我 知 道 你 必 苦 害 以 色 列 人 ， 用 火 焚 烧 他 们 的 保 障 ， 用 刀 杀 死 他 们 的 壮 丁 ， 摔 死 他 们 的 婴 孩 ， 剖 开 他 们 的 孕 妇 。

Contextual Overview

⁷ Then Elisha went to Damascus, where Ben-Hadad king of Aram was sick. Someone told him, "The man of God has arrived." ⁸ The king said to Hazael, "Take a gift in your hand and go meet him. Ask the Lord through him if I will recover from my sickness." ⁹ So Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camels loaded with every good thing in Damascus. He came and stood before Elisha and said, "Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram sent me to you. He asks if he will recover from his sickness." ¹⁰ Elisha said to Hazael, "Go and tell Ben-Hadad, ‘You will surely recover,' but the Lord has told me he will really die." ¹¹ Hazael stared at Elisha until he felt ashamed. Then Elisha cried. ¹² Hazael asked, "Why are you crying, master?" Elisha answered, "Because I know what evil you will do to the Israelites. You will burn their strong, walled cities with fire and kill their young men with swords. You will throw their babies to the ground and split open their pregnant women." ¹³ Hazael said, "Am I a dog? How could I do such things?" Elisha answered, "The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Aram." ¹⁴ Then Hazael left Elisha and came to his master. Ben-Hadad said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" Hazael answered, "He told me that you will surely recover." ¹⁵ But the next day Hazael took a blanket and dipped it in water. Then he put it over Ben-Hadad's face, and he died. So Hazael became king in Ben-Hadad's place.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my Lord: 2 Kings 4:28, 1 Kings 18:13

the evil: 2 Kings 10:32, 2 Kings 10:33, 2 Kings 12:17, 2 Kings 13:3, 2 Kings 13:7, Amos 1:3, Amos 1:4

dash: 2 Kings 15:16, Psalms 137:8, Psalms 137:9, Isaiah 13:16, Isaiah 13:18, Hosea 10:14, Hosea 13:16, Amos 1:3-5, Amos 1:13, Nahum 3:10

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:8 - why weepest 1 Kings 19:17 - the sword of Hazael 1 Kings 20:42 - thy life shall go 2 Kings 8:28 - Hazael 2 Kings 9:14 - conspired 2 Kings 13:22 - Hazael Amos 4:10 - your young Matthew 2:16 - and slew Mark 14:71 - General Luke 22:33 - I am

Cross-References

Genesis 8:2
The underground springs stopped flowing, and the clouds in the sky stopped pouring down rain.

Genesis 8:3
The water that covered the earth began to go down. After one hundred fifty days it had gone down so much that the boat touched land again. It came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.

Genesis 8:5
The water continued to go down so that by the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains could be seen.

Genesis 8:6
Forty days later Noah opened the window he had made in the boat, and

Genesis 8:7
he sent out a raven. It flew here and there until the water had dried up from the earth.

Genesis 8:8
Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had dried up from the ground.

Genesis 8:10
After seven days Noah again sent out the dove from the boat,

Psalms 27:14
Wait for the Lord 's help. Be strong and brave, and wait for the Lord 's help.

Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for the Lord to help us, the Lord who is ashamed of the family of Israel. I will wait for him.

Isaiah 25:9
At that time people will say, "Our God is doing this! We have waited for him, and he has come to save us. This is the Lord . We waited for him, so we will rejoice and be happy when he saves us."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord?.... Imagining it was for the death of Benhadad he had predicted, for which he could see no reason; of the title, "my lord", see 1 Kings 18:7

and he answered, because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel; which he foresaw by a spirit of prophecy; and Israel being his own people, he sympathized in their calamities before they came:

their strong holds wilt thou set on fire; which should be taken by him, see 2 Kings 10:32

and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword; in battle:

and wilt dash their children; against rocks and stones, or stone walls, or upon the ground, floor, or pavement, as was usual in war g, see

Psalms 137:9,

and rip up their women with child: which was the height of barbarity and cruelty. Ben Gersom and Ben Melech interpret this of breaking down the walls of fortified cities, built strong, like hills and mountains; but this is supposed in the first clause.

g Vid. Homer. Iliad. 22. ver. 63, 64.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The evil that thou wilt do - The intention is not to tax Hazael with special cruelty, but only to enumerate the ordinary horrors of war, as it was conducted among the Oriental nations of the time. Compare the marginal references.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 8:12. I know the evil that thou wilt do — We may see something of the accomplishment of this prediction, 2 Kings 10:32-33; 2 Kings 13:3; 2 Kings 13:7.