EGW Writings2 Kings 8

Testimony Treasures, vol. 1

Some Shaken Out

1TT 479.1

Let these look back a few months to the time when they were sitting on the cases of others who were in a condition similar to that which they now occupy. Let them carefully call to mind the exercise of their minds in regard to those tempted ones. Had anyone told them then that notwithstanding their zeal and labor to set others right, they would at length be found in a similar position of darkness, they would have said, as did Hazael to the prophet: “Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?” 2 Kings 8:13.

Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 2 (1869 - 1875)

Lt 19, 1875

2LtMs, Lt 19, 1875, par. 7

Say not in the words of Hazael who imagined himself better than he was, “Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?” [2 Kings 8:13.] But notwithstanding he was forewarned, notwithstanding he felt indignant at the suggestion, as a possibility, that he would be left to so fearful, revolting crime, he [had] followed the workings of his own corrupt heart and [had] done the very things the prophet warned him he would do. What do you propose to do in regard to the ruin and misery you have wrought? If this was your first wrong in this direction your [actions] would not [be] so bad. Your principles and practices have grown into habits. You will continue them as long as you live until you are a converted man.

Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888)

Lt 55, 1888

5LtMs, Lt 55, 1888, par. 18

Your work is now outside the Lord’s agencies. Your work is an independent matter without one word to the responsible men God has ordained [for] this coast. Those who refuse to hearken to instruction will work on the enemy’s side, and a bitter tide will be started from him which will result in every sort of trouble; souls will be wounded, alienations will exist, and if this is the policy that men claiming to be commandment-keepers feel at liberty to work upon them, the enemy’s cause will be served rather than the cause of God. Say not, in the words of a man who imagined himself to be better than the Lord saw him to be, “What is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?” 2 Kings 8:13.

Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 8 (1893)

Lt 1, 1893

8LtMs, Lt 1, 1893, par. 33

You may say, as did Hazael, when the prophet prophesied of the course of action that he would in cruelty pursue, “Is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing?” [2 Kings 8:13.] He thought himself secure, but he had formed habits of character which led him on and developed into exhibitions of deeds and actions, satanic in cruelty, that he never supposed he could be guilty of doing.

From Splendor to Shadow

Chapter 16—The Fall of the House of Ahab

SS 113.4

“And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. And ... in process of time, after the end of two years, ... he died of sore diseases.” “And Ahaziah [Jehoahaz] his son reigned in his stead.” Verses 12-19; 2 Kings 8:24.

Prophets and Kings

Chapter 16—The Fall of the House of Ahab

PK 213.4

“And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, ... he died of sore diseases.” “And Ahaziah [Jehoahaz] his son reigned in his stead.” Verses 12-19; 2 Kings 8:24.

PK 214.1

Jehoram the son of Ahab was still reigning in the kingdom of Israel when his nephew, Ahaziah, came to the throne of Judah. Ahaziah ruled only one year, and during this time, influenced by his mother, Athaliah, “his counselor to do wickedly,” “he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the Lord.” 2 Chronicles 22:3, 4; 2 Kings 8:27. Jezebel, his grandmother, was still living, and he allied himself boldly with Jehoram of Israel, his uncle.