Who was Hazael?

Whom God beholds, an officer of Ben-hadad II., king of Syria, who ultimately came to the throne, according to the word of the Lord to Elijah (1 Kings 19:15), after he had put the king to death (2 Kings 8:15).

Hazael first appears in 1 Kings 19:15. In this repository’s biblical text, this figure is associated with 21 verse mentions across 4 books, most notably 2 Kings, 1 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Amos.