A name from Scripture
Hazael
HAZ-ay-el
Meaning
God has seen; Whom God sees
Hebrew origin · Boy · First in 1 Kings
What it points to
Hazael — 'God has seen' — couldn't see in himself what God (and Elisha) could see. His story warns that the evil we think we're incapable of may be closer than we imagine. Self-knowledge requires divine light.
Verses · King James Version
“And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do... And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?”
2 Kings 8:12-13
“And the LORD said unto him... anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.”
1 Kings 19:15