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2 Kings 8:6-8
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6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details.[a] The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him,[b] “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

Elisha Meets with Hazael

7 Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king[c] was told, “The prophet[d] has come here.” 8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift[e] and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him,[f] ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 8:6 tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”
  2. 2 Kings 8:6 tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”
  3. 2 Kings 8:7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  4. 2 Kings 8:7 tn Heb “man of God” (also a second time in this verse and in v. 11).
  5. 2 Kings 8:8 tn The Hebrew text also has “in your hand.”
  6. 2 Kings 8:8 tn Heb “Inquire of the Lord through him, saying.”
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