John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 8:9

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, etc.] As was usual when a prophet or seer was consulted, (see <090907>1 Samuel 9:7) even of every good thing of Damascus; which was a very fruitful place, and had abundance of gardens and orchards in it, which yielded excellent fruit, and of such it is probable the present consisted, and which was large: even forty camels’ burden: which, as they are strong creatures, will bear a great deal. Abarbinel thinks, bread, flesh, and wine, and fowls, were in the present, but not gold, silver, and raiment, which the prophet had refused to take of Naaman; the Jews have a fable, that there was a precious stone in it, worth all the good things of Damascus: and came and stood before him, and said, thy son Benhadad, king of Syria, hath sent me to thee, saying, shall I recover of this disease? he calls him his son, in veneration of the prophet as a father, as such men were called.

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