to the war against Hazael Hazael was already beginning to fulfil the forecast of Elisha. Ramoth-gilead belonged to Israel (1 Kings 22:3) but now, as in Ahab's reign, it was being seized by the Syrians. Joram, Ahab's son, had ill-fortune like that of his father in the Syrian war, though as is evident from the next chapter he kept possession of Ramoth and left his officers there.
Verse 2 Kings 8:28. _THE SYRIANS WOUNDED JORAM_] Ahaziah went with Joram to endeavour to wrest Ramoth-gilead out of the hands of the Syrians, which belonged to Israel and Judah. Ahab had endeavoured t...
This war of the two kings against Hazael seems to have had for its object the recovery of Ramoth-gilead, which Ahab and Jehoshaphat had vainly attempted fourteen years earlier 1 Kings 22:3. Joram prob...
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...
HE WENT WITH JORAM. His uncle. RAMOTH-GILEAD. It was then in the hands of Israel, but threatened by Syria. Compare 2 Kings 9:14....
B. THE REIGN OF AHAZIAH OF JUDAH 8:25-29 TRANSLATION (25) In the twelfth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign. (26) Ahaziah was twenty-two yea...
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...
HE WENT WITH JORAM] Ramoth Gilead at this time was in the hands of Israel, but threatened by Syria (2 Kings 9:14)....
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...
(25-29) The reign of Ahaziah king of Judah. His expedition with Joram of Israel against Hazael at Ramoth-gilead. (Comp. 2 Chronicles 22:1.) TWO-AND-TWENTY YEARS OLD. — He was Jehoram’a youngest son (2...
AND HE WENT WITH JORAM. — By the persuasion of his mother and her family (2 Chronicles 22:4). Ewald would omit the preposition _with_, on the assumption that Ahaziah took no part in the war at Ramoth,...
וַ יֵּ֜לֶךְ אֶת ־יֹורָ֣ם בֶּן ־אַחְאָ֗ב לַ
(1) JEHORAM BEN-JEHOSHAPHAT OF JUDAH B.C. 851-843 (2) AHAZIAH BEN-JEHORAM OF JUDAH B.C. 843-842 2 Kings 8:16 "Bear with the Turk, no brother near the throne." -POPE. THE narrative now reverts...
ATHALIAH'S WICKED HUSBAND AND SONS 2 Kings 8:16 Jehoram's history furnishes a terrible example of how an ill-marriage may mar a man's life. He had a good father, but a bad wife, and the latter more s...
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...
And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in (p) Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram. (p) Which was a city in the tribe of Gad beyond Jordan....
_Galaad. The same city had proved fatal to Achab, 3 Kings xxii. Joram took it, but received (Calmet) many wounds; so that he left Jehu to attack the citadel. The latter was anointed king, and acknowle...
I bring all these verses within one point of view, as they only relate to us the short, but wicked reign, of another of Judah's kings. And I only detain the Reader with a single observation upon this...
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 HE WENT WITH JORAM THE SON OF AHAB,.... His mother's brother, and so his uncle: TO THE WAR AGAINST HAZAEL KING OF SYRIA IN RAMOTHGILEAD; which he went to recover out of the hands of the king of S...
And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram. Ver. 28. _And the Syrians wounded Joram._] See on 2 Kings 5:7 ....
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...
THE REIGN OF JEHORAM AND OF AHAZIAH...
And he went with Joram, the son of Ahab, to the war against Hazael, king of Syria, in Ramoth-gilead, the fortified city in the country east of Jordan, which Ahab had already tried to recover; AND THE...
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...
25-29 Names do not make natures, but it was bad for Jehoshaphat's family to borrow names from Ahab's. Ahaziah's relation to Ahab's family was the occasion of his wickedness and of his fall. When men...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Kings 8:28 went H3212 (H8799) Joram H3141 son H1121 Ahab H256 war H4421 Hazael H2371 king H4428 Syria...
AHAZIAH UNWITTINGLY BECOMES INVOLVED WITH THE PROBLEMS OF JEHORAM, KING OF ISRAEL AND THE REBELLION OF JEHU (2KI 8:28; 2 KINGS 9:14 A). Once he had come to the throne Ahaziah and Judah joined in an al...
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...
_In the twelfth year of Joram._ KINGHOOD: THE CONVENTIONAL AND THE TRUE Looking at King Ahaziah, as here sketched, two points strike our attention. I. A king by physical heredity. This man came fro...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 8:16 Judah was last mentioned in ch. 2 Kings 3:1, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah. Another Judean king has come and gone in the meantime, however, and the reader must be tol...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 8:28 WAR AGAINST HAZAEL KING OF SYRIA. Another joint battle against the Syrians at RAMOTH-GILEAD (see 1 Kings
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 8:16. JORAM THE SON OF AHAB—See Notes on chap. 2 Kings 3:1. 2 Kings 8:18. THE DAUGHTER OF AHAB—Attaliah. It was through her influence the king introduced the...
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 19:17; 1 Kings 22:3; 1 Kings 22:4; 1 Kings 4:13; 2 Chro