列王纪下 8:7

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

亞蘭王便．哈達患病以利沙來到大馬士革。亞蘭王便．哈達患了病。有人告訴他說：“神人來到這裡了。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 利 沙 来 到 大 马 色 ， 亚 兰 王 便 哈 达 正 患 病 。 有 人 告 诉 王 说 ： 　 神 人 来 到 这 里 了 。

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

Deuteronomy 33:1, 1 Kings 13:1

Damascus: Genesis 14:15, 1 Kings 11:24, Isaiah 7:8

Benhadad: 2 Kings 6:24, 1 Kings 15:18, 1 Kings 20:1, 1 Kings 20:34

The man of God: 2 Kings 1:9, 2 Kings 1:10, 2 Kings 2:15, 2 Kings 6:12

is come: Judges 16:2, Acts 17:6

Reciprocal: Joshua 14:6 - the man 1 Kings 14:3 - And take 1 Kings 19:15 - wilderness of Damascus 2 Kings 1:2 - whether Jeremiah 40:5 - gave him Amos 1:4 - Hazael

Cross-References

Leviticus 11:15
any kind of raven,

1 Kings 17:4
You may drink from the stream, and I have commanded ravens to bring you food there."

1 Kings 17:6
The birds brought Elijah bread and meat every morning and evening, and he drank water from the stream.

Job 38:41
Who gives food to the birds when their young cry out to God and wander about without food?

Psalms 147:9
He gives food to cattle and to the little birds that call.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Elisha came to Damascus,.... On what account, and when, is not certain, whether to convert Gehazi, as say the Jews d; or to confirm Naaman in the true religion he professed, for which he might be dismissed from his office, since another man was made general of the Syrian army; or on account of the famine; or rather it may be to anoint, or, however, to declare that Hazael would be king of Syria; see 1 Kings 19:15,

and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; at the time he came thither, where his palace was, and now a Mahometan temple; a very extraordinary building, according to Benjamin the Jew e:

and it was told him, saying, the man of God is come hither; the famous prophet in Israel, Elisha, through whom Naaman his general had been cured of his leprosy, of whom he had heard so much.

d T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 47. 1. e Itinerar. p. 55.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The hour had come for carrying out the command given by God to Elijah (marginal reference “e”), and by him probably passed on to his successor. Elisha, careless of his own safety, quitted the land of Israel, and proceeded into the enemy’s country, thus putting into the power of the Syrian king that life which he had lately sought so eagerly 2 Kings 6:13-19.

The man of God - The Damascenes had perhaps known Elisha by this title from the time of his curing Naaman. Or the phrase may be used as equivalent to “prophet,” which is the title commonly given to Elisha by the Syrians. See 2 Kings 6:12. Compare 2 Kings 5:13.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 8:7. Elisha came to Damascus — That he might lead Gehazi to repentance; according to Jarchi and some others.