2 Rois 8:9

Darby's French Translation

Relèverai-je de cette maladie? Et Hazaël alla à sa rencontre, et prit dans sa main un présent de toutes les bonnes choses de Damas, la charge de quarante chameaux; et il vint, et se tint devant lui, et dit: Ton fils Ben-Hadad, roi de Syrie, m'a envoyé vers toi, disant:

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Hazaël s'en alla donc au-devant de lui, ayant pris avec lui un présent, tout ce qu'il y avait de mieux à Damas, la charge de quarante chameaux. Il vint donc se présenter devant Élisée, et lui dit: Ton fils Ben-Hadad, roi de Syrie, m'a envoyé vers toi, pour te dire: Relèverai-je de cette maladie?

Louis Segond (1910)
Hazaël alla au-devant d'Elisée, prenant avec lui un présent, tout ce qu'il y avait de meilleur à Damas, la charge de quarante chameaux. Lorsqu'il fut arrivé, il se présenta à lui, et dit: Ton fils Ben-Hadad, roi de Syrie, m'envoie vers toi pour dire: Guérirai-je de cette maladie?

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et Hazaël s'en alla au-devant de lui, ayant pris avec soi un présent, [savoir], quarante chameaux chargés de tout ce qu'il y avait de meilleur à Damas, et il vint, et se présenta devant lui, et dit : Ton fils Ben-hadad Roi de Syrie m'a envoyé vers toi, pour te dire : Relèverai-je de cette maladie?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hazael: 1 Kings 19:15

with him: Heb. in his hand, 2 Kings 5:5

Thy son Benhadad: 2 Kings 6:21, 2 Kings 13:14, 2 Kings 16:7, 1 Samuel 25:8, Philemon 1:14

Reciprocal: Judges 17:10 - a father Judges 18:19 - a father Ecclesiastes 3:6 - time to get Isaiah 60:6 - multitude Acts 8:18 - he offered Acts 28:10 - laded Revelation 12:16 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him,.... As was usual when a prophet or seer was consulted, see 1 Samuel 9:7

even of every good thing of Damascus; which was a very fruitful place, and had abundance of gardens and orchards in it, which yielded excellent fruit, and of such it is probable the present consisted, and which was large:

even forty camels' burden: which, as they are strong creatures, will bear a great deal. Abarbinel thinks, bread, flesh, and wine, and fowls, were in the present, but not gold, silver, and raiment, which the prophet had refused to take of Naaman; the Jews have a fable, that there was a precious stone in it, worth all the good things of Damascus:

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 disease? he calls him his son, in veneration of the prophet as a father, as such men were called.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Every good thing of Damascus - Probably, besides rich robes and precious metals, the luscious wine of Helbon, which was the drink of the Persian kings, the soft white wool of the anti-Libanus Ezekiel 27:18, damask coverings of couches Amos 3:12, and numerous manufactured articles of luxury, which the Syrian capital imported from Tyre, Egypt, Nineveh, and Babylon. Forty camels were laden with it, and this goodly caravan paraded the streets of the town, conveying to the prophet the splendid gift designed for him. Eastern ostentation induces donors to make the greatest possible show of their gifts, and each camel would probably bear only one or two articles.

Thy son Ben-hadad - A phrase indicative of the greatest respect, no doubt used at the command of Benhadad in order to dispose the prophet favorably toward him. Compare 2 Kings 6:21.