8:7 Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king 1 was told, “The prophet 2 has come here.” 8:8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift 3 and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, 4 ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’” 8:9 So Hazael went to visit Elisha. 5 He took along a gift, 6 as well as 7 forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus. When he arrived, he stood before him and said, “Your son, 8 King Ben Hadad of Syria, has sent me to you with this question, 9 ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’” 8:10 Elisha said to him, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover,’ 10 but the Lord has revealed to me that he will surely die.”