12 Hazael said, "Master, why are you crying?""Because I know what violence you will do to the Israelites," Elisha said. "You will drive them from their forts with fire. You will kill their young men with the sword. You will smash their children and rip open their pregnant women."
13 Hazael replied, "How could your servant, who is nothing but a dog, do such mighty things?"Elisha said, "The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Aram."
14 Then Hazael left Elisha and returned to his master."What did Elisha say to you?" Ben-hadad asked."He told me that you will certainly live," Hazael replied.
15 But the next day he took a blanket, soaked it in water, and put it over Ben-hadad’s face until he died. Hazael succeeded him as king.
16 In the fifth year of Israel’s King Joram, Ahab’s son Jehoram, the son of Judah’s King Jehoshaphat, became king.
17 He was 32 years old when he became king, and he ruled for eight years in Jerusalem.
18 He walked in the ways of Israel’s kings, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, because he married Ahab’s daughter. He did what was evil in the Lord’s eyes.