Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 8:9

9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels burden , and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?

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 practise, chap. 5. and because the reasons which then swayed him, were still of the same force.

He who before persecuted him as an Enemy, chap. 6. 13, 14. now in his extremity honours him like a Father.

Marginal references: Heb. in his hand.; Heb. live. Chap. 1. 2.