1 Kings 19:15
Then the Lord said to him, “Go back by the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you arrive, you are to anoint Hazael as king over Aram.
And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
The Lord said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
And Jehovah said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, thou shalt anoint Hazael to be king over Syria;
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- wilderness of Damascus
- The wilderness of Damascus seems to have been that part of Arabia Deserta which lay on the south-east of that city, and east of the Trachonites, or the Djebel Haouran and El Ledja; at which the prophet could arrive without meeting Jezebel or any of his enemies.
- Genesis 14:15; 2 Kings 8:7; Acts 9:2, 3
- anoint
- Isaiah 45:1; Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 27:2–22
- Hazael
- 2 Kings 8:8–15, 28; 2 Kings 9:14; Amos 1:4