²¹ As soon as the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, ^(A)“My father, shall I strike them down? Shall I strike them down?”

⁹ So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camels' loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, ^(A)“Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’”

¹⁰ And Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me ^(A)a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year and a suit of clothes and your living.” And the Levite went in.