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Forty camels’ burden. Hazael carried the more noble present, hoping, as his master did, to get some interest in the prophet and advantage to himself by it. Whether the prophet received it or not, is not here mentioned; but it is most probable he did not, from his former practice, 2Ki 5 and because the reasons which then swayed him were still of the same force.
Son Ben-hadad: he who before persecuted him as an enemy, 2Ki_6:13,14, now in his extremity honours him like a father.