8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, 3 for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”
1 tn Heb “Indeed, what is your servant, a dog, that he could do this great thing?” With his reference to a dog, Hazael is not denying that he is a “dog” and protesting that he would never commit such a dastardly “dog-like” deed. Rather, as Elisha’s response indicates, Hazael is suggesting that he, like a dog, is too insignificant to ever be in a position to lead such conquests.
2 tn Heb “The
3 tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”
4 sn This refers to the cherub images that were above the ark of the covenant.
5 tn Or “the heavens.”