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Hazael was hungry for power. Till then a  nobody, schemed and did evil because of his wanting for power. He killed his own king.
Jehoram, had probably one of the best examples to follow, his own father, king Jehoshaphath who was a man who followed God's ways, went to extent a hand of peace with King of Judah. But he chose to follow the evil ways of the king of Israel because of the influence of King Ahab's daughter his wife.
His son Ahaziah, due to the influence of his mother, also chose to do evil in the eyes of God.
2Kings:8

Your choices are determined by your influences. It could be your inner influences - your greed, your desires, your passions. Or it could be external influences.
Whatever it is, make sure dear one, it is God directed. Because that is the key to live a life of fulfilment, life in abundance, which the creator has designed you for.
For if you run after your greed and desires and passions, it would be yours that it would satisfy, and that would never be fully satisfied. Keeping on wanting for more. Hungry for more.
And if it is your loved one's desires that you want to satisfy. That wouldn't completely satisfy them and you would want to do more to please them.

It was Blaise Pascal who said - There is a God shaped vaccum in each of our hearts which can be filled only by God. When we force to fill it with money or music or skills or talents or training or job or vocation or movies or entertainment or binge watching or power or fame, IT WOULD NEVER FIT IN. Continue to be that void in you. Wanting for more. Hungry for more.

Do not try to satisfy the person in you, not your influencers. But be satisfied in the One who said, "I will satisfy you."
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