BENBADAD: [Shaking his head.]
Excellent well!
Most eloquent! But misty in the meaning.
HAZAEL: [With cold decision.]
Then let me speak, O King, in plainer words!
The days of independent states are past:
The tide of empire sweeps across the earth;
Assyria rides it with resistless power
And thunders on to subjugate the world.
Oppose her, and we fight with Destiny;