In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel; The Lord began to cut Israel short - The marginal reading is best: The Lord cut off the ends; and this he did by permitting Hazael to seize on the coasts, to conquer and occupy the frontier towns. This was the commencement of those miserable ravages which Elisha predicted; see 2 Kings 8:12. And we find from the next verse that he seized on all the land of Gilead, and that of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh; in a word, whatever Israel possessed on the east side of Jordan.
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2 Kings 10:32
32 In those days the LORD began to cutj Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;