“So Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him and said, “Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’””

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.