2 Kings 10:32

Cutting short of Israel. Jehu's death, his successor and the duration of his reign (Not in Chronicles)

32. to cut Israel short Literally -to cut off inIsrael". The meaning is -to give over some parts of their land into the enemy's hand". This, it is said, should rather be expressed by -to cut off fromIsrael". But, as it stands, the context makes all clear enough. What had been part of Israel's possessions, was severed from it, and passed into the power of Hazael and the Syrians.

in all the coasts of Israel In the days when the A.V. was made, -coast" meant -any border land" and had no necessary relation to the sea. The -coasts" described in the next verse are all on the east of Jordan, and entirely away from the Mediterranean. Hazael must have thoroughly overrun and taken possession of the trans-Jordanic part of Israel.