2 Kings 10:32,33

2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 Kings 10:32 the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel. 1 Kings 19:15 pointed to a time when God’s judgment would fall on Israel because of Baal worship. These verses focus on the part that the Syrian king Hazael played in this judgment. Hazael conquered the area east of the Jordan as far south as the Valley of the Arnon, which was the southern limit of Israelite Transjordanian territory (see Joshua 12:2). This military success occurred during a time when Syria was itself free from any threats by its own northern neighbor, Assyria.