Hazael said, “Why do you weep, my lord?”
He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel.
You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their little ones in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women.”
Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?”
Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”