13. And Hazael said, But what, is thy slave a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord has showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
14. So he departed from Elisha and came to his master; who said to him, What did Elisha say to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou may surely recover.
15. And it came to pass on the next day that he took a thick cloth and dipped it in water and spread it on his face so that he died; and Hazael reigned in his stead.
16. And in the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, began to reign.
17. He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.