⁸ And the king said to ^(A)Hazael, ^(B)“Take a present in your hand, and go to meet the man of God, and ^(C)inquire of the Lord by him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this disease?’ ”

² Now ^(A)Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria, and was injured; so he sent messengers and said to them, “Go, inquire of ^(B)Baal-Zebub,^[a] the god of ^(C)Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.”

¹⁵ Then the Lord said to him: “Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; ^(A)and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria.

⁷ Then Saul said to his servant, “But look, if we go, ^(A)what shall we bring the man? For the bread in our vessels is all gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?”

³⁰ And he brought them out and said, ^(A)“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

²³ Then one said to Him, “Lord, are there ^(A)few who are saved?”

And He said to them,

⁵ Then the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.”

So he departed and ^(A)took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

¹¹ But ^(A)Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no prophet of the Lord here, that we may inquire of the Lord by him?”

So one of the servants of the king of Israel answered and said, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who ^(B)poured^[a] water on the hands of Elijah.”

¹² And Jehoshaphat said, “The word of the Lord is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom ^(C)went down to him.

¹³ Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, ^(D)“What have I to do with you? ^(E)Go to ^(F)the prophets of your father and the ^(G)prophets of your mother.”

But the king of Israel said to him, “No, for the Lord has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”

⁶ So 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 because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’ ” ’ ”