SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:12
Entonces le dijo Hazael: ¿Por qué llora mi señor? Y él respondió: Porque sé el mal que has de hacer a los hijos de Israel; a sus fortalezas pegarás fuego, y a sus jóvenes matarás a cuchillo, y estrellarás a sus niños, y abrirás a sus preñadas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 8:12
Verse 12. I know the evil that thou wilt do] We may see something of the accomplishment of this prediction, chap. x. 32, 33; xiii. 3, 7.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord ? etc.] Imagining it was for the death of Benhadad he had predicted, for which he could see no reason; of the title, “my lord”, (see 1 Kings 18:7) and he answered, because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel ; which he foresaw by a spirit of prophecy; and Israel being his own people, he sympathized in their calamities before they came: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire ; which should be taken by him, (see 2 Kings 10:32) and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword ; in battle: and wilt dash their children ; against rocks and stones, or stone walls, or upon the ground, floor, or pavement, as was usual in war f105 , (see <19D709> Psalm 137:9), and rip up their women with child : which was the height of barbarity and cruelty. Ben Gersom and Ben Melech interpret this of breaking down the walls of fortified cities, built strong, like hills and mountains; but this is supposed in the first clause.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-15 - Among other changes of men's minds by affliction, it often gives othe thoughts of God's ministers, and teaches to value the counsels an prayers of those whom they have hated and despised. It was not in Hazael's countenance that Elisha read what he would do, but God revealed it to him, and it fetched tears from his eyes: the mor foresight men have, the more grief they are liable to. It is possibl for a man, under the convictions and restraints of natural conscience to express great abhorrence of a sin, yet afterwards to be reconcile to it. Those that are little and low in the world, cannot imagine ho strong the temptations of power and prosperity are, which, if ever the arrive at, they will find how deceitful their hearts are, how muc worse than they suspected. The devil ruins men, by saying they shal certainly recover and do well, so rocking them asleep in security Hazael's false account was an injury to the king, who lost the benefi of the prophet's warning to prepare for death, and an injury to Elisha who would be counted a false prophet. It is not certain that Hazae murdered his master, or if he caused his death it may have been withou any design. But he was a dissembler, and afterwards proved a persecuto to Israel.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 חזאל 2371 מדוע 4069 אדני 113 בכה 1058 ויאמר 559 כי 3588 ידעתי 3045 את 853 אשׁר 834 תעשׂה 6213 לבני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 רעה 7451 מבצריהם 4013 תשׁלח 7971 באשׁ 784 ובחריהם 970 בחרב 2719 תהרג 2026 ועלליהם 5768 תרטשׁ 7376 והרתיהם 2030 תבקע׃ 1234
