2 Kings 8:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ Hazael said, “What is your servant, who is a mere dog, that he should do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “The Lord has shown me that you are to be king over Aram.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ And Hazael said, What is your servant, only a dog, that he should do this monstrous thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Syria.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And Hazael said, But what is thy servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, Jehovah hath showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.

Common English Bible

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.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ And Hazael said, "But what am I, your servant, a dog, that I would do this great thing?" And Elisha said, "The Lord has revealed to me that you will be the king of Syria."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ And Hazael said: But what am I thy servant a dog, that I should do this great thing? And Eliseus said: The Lord hath shewn me that thou shalt be king of Syria.

2 Kings 8:13 Cross References

2 Samuel 9:8

He did obeisance and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon a dead dog such as I?”

1 Kings 19:15

Then the Lord said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus; when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael as king over Aram.

2 Kings 13:22

Now King Hazael of Aram oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

2 Kings 8:10

Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover,’ but the Lord has shown me that he shall certainly die.”

Psalm 22:16

For dogs are all around me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they bound my hands and feet.

Psalm 22:20

Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the power of the dog!

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse— who can understand it?

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.

Philippians 3:2

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

1 Samuel 17:43

The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.