Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
2 Kings 8:12
So here was a double cause of his grief and tears, the evil of sin in Hazael, and the evil of suffering upon Israel.
So here was a double cause of his grief and tears, the evil of sin in Hazael, and the evil of suffering upon Israel.
Verse 2 Kings 8:12. _I KNOW THE EVIL THAT THOU WILT DO_] We may see something of the accomplishment of this prediction, 2 Kings 10:32-12; 2 Kings 13:3;...
THE EVIL THAT THOU WILT DO - The intention is not to tax Hazael with special cruelty, but only to enumerate the ordinary horrors of war, as it was conducted among the Oriental nations of the time. Com...
ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE. HAZAEL, KING OF SYRIA. This chapter is somewhat varied as to composition. It opens with a short story about Elisha (2 Kings 8:1), of which we may presuppose (_a_) that it is...
THE EVIL. Described in 2 Kings 10:32. 2Ki 12:17. 2 Kings 13:3; 2 Kings 13:22....
_and wilt dash their children_ R.V. AND WILT DASH IN PIECES THEIR LITTLE ONES. We have no details of Hazael's cruelty in the future, but hints of it are found. In 2 Kings 10:32 it is said -Hazael smot...
DISCOURSE: 370 ELISHA PREDICTS THE ATROCIOUS ACTS OF HAZAEL 2 Kings 8:12. _And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel...
AND WILL DASH THEIR CHILDREN, &C.— That dashing young children against the stones was one piece of barbarous cruelty which the people of the east were apt to run into in the prosecution of their wars,...
D. PREDICTION CONCERNING THE CAREER OF HAZAEL 8:7-15 TRANSLATION (7) Now Elisha went to Damascus when Benhadad the king of Aram was sick. And it was told him, saying, The man of God has come here. (8...
_AND HAZAEL SAID, WHY WEEPETH MY LORD? AND HE ANSWERED, BECAUSE I KNOW THE EVIL THAT THOU WILT DO UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: THEIR STRONG HOLDS WILT THOU SET ON FIRE, AND THEIR YOUNG MEN WILT THOU S...
ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE. ELISHA AND HAZAEL. REIGNS OF JEHORAM AND AHAZIAH OF JUDAH 1. Then spake Elisha] The occasion is not indicated, all the stories related of Elisha in this and the three prece...
THE EVIL, etc.] described in 2 Kings 10:32; 2 Kings 13:3; 2 Kings 13:22; Amos 1:3;...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 8 THE REPORT ABOUT ELISHA’S *MIRACLES V1 Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had brought back to life. ‘Go aw...
(7-15) Elisha’s visit to Damascus, and its consequences....
THE EVIL THAT THOU WILT DO UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. — Fulfilled in 2 Kings 10:32; 2 Kings 13:3. The cruelties enumerated here were the ordinary concomitants of warfare in that age. (Comp. Amos 1:3...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר חֲזָאֵ֔ל מַדּ֖וּעַ אֲדֹנִ֣י בֹכֶ֑ה...
THE SHUNAMMITE AND HAZAEL 2 Kings 8:1 (_ Circa_ B.C. 886) "Our acts still follow with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are." -GEORGE ELIOT THE next anecdote of Elisha brings u...
THE POWER BEHIND THE THRONE 2 Kings 8:1 Nothing happens in our life or in the world apart from the divine appointment or permission. Behind every event and incident there is a divine providence. The...
The influence of Elisha is incidentally seen in the converse of the king with Gehazi and the restoration of the lands of the Shunammite woman for the sake of the prophet. Elisha visited Damascus, wher...
I hardly know a passage in history, even if simply considered as an history, more strikingly interesting to the feelings than this interview, as here related between Hazael and the prophet. Figure to...
However, the next chapter (2 Kings 3:1-27) brings us at once into earthly circumstances. "Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of J...
The history of the woman [1], whose son Elisha had raised to life again, gives us a little picture of all God's dealings with Israel. During long years, as determined by Jehovah, Israel is deprived of...
AND HAZAEL SAID, WHY WEEPETH MY LORD?.... Imagining it was for the death of Benhadad he had predicted, for which he could see no reason; of the title, "my lord", see 1 Kings 18:7 AND HE ANSWERED, BEC...
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou sl...
_I know the evil thou wilt do unto the children of Israel_ It was not in Hazael's countenance that Elisha read what he would do; but God did at this time reveal it to him, and gave him such a clear an...
1 The Shunammite, hauing left her countrey seuen yeeres, to auoide the forewarned famine, for Elishas miracle sake, hath her land restored by the king. 7 Hazael being sent with a present by Benhadad...
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel, after his accession to the throne. THEIR STRONGHOLDS WILT THOU SET ON FIRE...
HAZAEL ANOINTED KING...
THE SHUNAMITE AGAIN (vv.1-6) The Shunamite woman is typical of the godly remnant of Israel. She had learned the grace of God in giving new life (ch.4:17) and further in resurrection power (ch.4:32-3...
7-15 Among other changes of men's minds by affliction, it often gives other thoughts of God's ministers, and teaches to value the counsels and prayers of those whom they have hated and despised. It w...
2 Kings 8:12 Hazael H2371 said H559 (H8799) lord H113 weeping H1058 (H8802) answered H559 (H8799) know...
BENHADAD OF ARAM, THROUGH HIS SERVANT HAZAEL, SEEKS ELISHA'S ASSURANCE THAT HIS ILLNESS IS NOT FATAL, BUT ELISHA DISCERNS DARK DEEDS AHEAD AT THE HANDS OF HAZAEL (2 KINGS 8:7). This incident presumabl...
2 Kings 8:7 From this history some points of instruction may be derived. I. You cannot predict, from a man's early natural disposition, what he will be capable of. Nothing will save a man but firm h...
CONTENTS: Famine predicted. Jehoram restores the Shunanmite land. Reigns of Jehoram and Ahaziah of Judah and Joram of Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Elisha, Gehazi, Jehoram, Ben-hadad, Hazael, Ahaziah, Shu...
2 Kings 8:8. _Take a present._ See on 1 Kings 14:3. 2 Kings 8:10. _Thou mayest certainly recover._ Aye, say as you all do, both physicians and courtiers. Cry aloud, for Baal is a god. This was said in...
_Elisha came to Damascus._ STRIKING CHARACTERS We have here-- I. A dying king. 1. This dying king was very anxious. “Shall I recover of this disease?” This was the question he wanted Elisha to answ...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 8:7 The house of Omri has now held the throne of Israel since 1 Kings 16:23, and in spite of Elijah’s prophecy about its end ...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 8:7. AND ELISHA CAME TO DAMASCUS—Elijah, his master, had been divinely commissioned to this (1 Kings 19:15), and now Elisha. “by the instigation of the Spirit”...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 8:1 THE SEQUEL OF THE STORY OF THE SHUNAMMITE. THE KILLING OF BENHADAD BY HAZAEL; AND...
Now Elisha spake unto the woman, whose son had been restored to life, and he said, [You better get out of here because there's going to be a seven-year famine in this area] (2 Kings 8:1). And so she l...
1 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 10:32; 2 Kings 10:33; 2 Kings 12:17; 2 Ki