2 Kings 8:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, "The man of God is come here."

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Elisha came to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad, the king of Aram, was sick. It was reported to him, "The man of God has come all the way here."

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And Elisha{H477} came{H935} to Damascus;{H1834} and Benhadad{H1130} the king{H4428} of Syria{H758} was sick;{H2470} and it was told{H5046} him, saying,{H559} The man{H376} of God{H430} is come{H935} hither.{H2008}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And Elisha{H477} came{H935}{(H8799)} to Damascus{H1834}; and Benhadad{H1130} the king{H4428} of Syria{H758} was sick{H2470}{(H8802)}; and it was told{H5046}{(H8714)} him, saying{H559}{(H8800)}, The man{H376} of God{H430} is come{H935}{(H8804)} hither{H2008}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And Eliseus came to Damascon, & Benadab the kynge of Syria laye sicke. And it was tolde him, and sayde: The man of God is come hither.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Then Elisha came to Damascus, and Ben-hadad the King of Aram was sicke, and one told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And Elisa came to Damascon, & Benhadad the king of Syria was sycke: And one tolde him, saying, The man of God is come hyther.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come here.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And Elisha cometh in to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram is sick, and it is declared to him, saying, `The man of God hath come hither.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, was ill; and they said to him, The man of God has come.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. It was told him, saying, "The man of God has come here."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Elisha Meets with Hazael Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king was told,“The prophet has come here.”

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 11:24 : 24 And he gathered men to him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and lived there, and reigned in Damascus.
  • 2 Kgs 6:24 : 24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
  • 1 Kgs 20:1 : 1 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together: there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
  • 1 Kgs 20:34 : 34 And Benhadad said to him, The cities, which my father took from your father, I will restore; and you shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send you away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.
  • 2 Kgs 1:9-9 : 9 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him, and behold, he sat on the top of a hill. And he spoke to him, Man of God, the king has said, Come down. 10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty. And fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.
  • 2 Kgs 2:15 : 15 And when the sons of the prophets who were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
  • 2 Kgs 6:12 : 12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.
  • 1 Kgs 13:1 : 1 And, behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
  • 1 Kgs 15:18 : 18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and King Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying,
  • Gen 14:15 : 15 And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and attacked them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is north of Damascus.
  • Deut 33:1 : 1 And this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
  • Judg 16:2 : 2 And the people of Gaza were told, "Samson is here." So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They stayed quiet all night, saying, "In the morning, at daylight, we will kill him."
  • Isa 7:8 : 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken, that it will not be a people.
  • Acts 17:6 : 6 And when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These who have turned the world upside down have come here too;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 8:8-11
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    86%

    8 And the king said to Hazael, "Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, 'Shall I recover from this disease?'"

    9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' load, and came and stood before him, and said, "Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, 'Shall I recover from this disease?'"

    10 And Elisha said to him, "Go, say to him, 'You may certainly recover:' however the LORD has shown me that he shall surely die."

    11 And he fixed his gaze steadily, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.

  • 2 Kgs 8:13-14
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    13 And Hazael said, "But what, is your servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?" And Elisha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you shall be king over Syria."

    14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" And he answered, "He told me that you should surely recover."

  • 2 Kgs 5:6-11
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    6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter reaches you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.

    7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? Therefore consider, please, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.

    8 And it happened, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.

    9 So Naaman came with his horses and chariot, and stood at the door of Elisha's house.

    10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.

    11 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.

  • 1 Kgs 20:2
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    2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said to him, Thus says Benhadad,

  • 2 Kgs 6:8-9
    2 verses
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    8 Then the king of Syria waged war against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.

    9 And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Beware that you do not pass such a place; for there the Syrians have come down.

  • 1 Kgs 19:15
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    15 And the LORD said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus, and when you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.

  • 2 Kgs 1:6-7
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    6 And they said to him, A man came up to meet us, and said to us, Go, return to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the LORD, Is it not because there is no God in Israel that you send to inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore, you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but shall surely die.

    7 And he said to them, What kind of man was he who came up to meet you and told you these words?

  • 1 Kgs 20:32-33
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    32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Your servant Benhadad says, I pray you, let me live. And he said, Is he still alive? he is my brother.

    33 Now the men diligently observed whether anything would come from him, and hastily caught it: and they said, Your brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he brought him up into the chariot.

  • 2 Kgs 5:3-4
    2 verses
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    3 And she said to her mistress, If only my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy.

    4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid who is from the land of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 8:4
    74%

    4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Tell me, I beg you, all the great things that Elisha has done."

  • 1 Kgs 20:28
    74%

    28 And there came a man of God, and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, Thus says the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 8:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.

    29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

  • 2 Chr 22:6
    73%

    6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds that were given to him at Ramah when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel because he was sick.

  • 2 Kgs 6:11-13
    3 verses
    73%

    11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was greatly troubled by this thing; and he called his servants, and said to them, Will you not show me which of us is for the king of Israel?

    12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.

    13 And he said, Go and see where he is, that I may send and bring him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.

  • 2 Kgs 5:1
    73%

    1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

  • 2 Kgs 5:13-15
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    13 And his servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, Wash and be clean?

    14 Then he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

    15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his entourage, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, please, take a blessing from your servant.

  • 1 Kgs 20:22
    72%

    22 And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said to him, Go, strengthen yourself, and observe, and see what you do: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.

  • 2 Kgs 6:24
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    24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 17:8
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    8 And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 13:6-7
    2 verses
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    6 And the king answered and said to the man of God, Entreat now the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me again. And the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before.

    7 And the king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.

  • 1 Kgs 13:14
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    14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said to him, Are you the man of God that came from Judah? And he said, I am.

  • 2 Kgs 6:31-33
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    31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall remain on him today.

    32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man ahead of him: but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

    33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down to him: and he said, Behold, this evil is from the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?

  • 2 Kgs 1:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 And Ahaziah fell through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick; so he sent messengers and said to them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this disease.

    3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, Is it not because there is no God in Israel that you go to inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron?

  • 2 Kgs 1:9
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    9 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him, and behold, he sat on the top of a hill. And he spoke to him, Man of God, the king has said, Come down.

  • Isa 38:4
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    4 Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 1:16
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    16 And he said to him, Thus says the LORD, Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? Therefore, you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but shall surely die.

  • 2 Kgs 3:12
    71%

    12 And Jehoshaphat said, "The word of the LORD is with him." So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

  • 2 Kgs 5:21
    71%

    21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?

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