9 (In former times in Israel this was the way the man would have talked on his going to seek God: “COME, and let us go to the seer.”+ For the prophet of today used to be called a seer in former times.)

7 And at that time Ha·naʹni+ the seer came to Aʹsa the king of Judah and then said to him: “Because you leaned upon the king of Syria+ and did not lean upon Jehovah your God,+ for that reason the military force of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand.