2 Kings 13:1
THREE AND TWENTIETH YEAR. See note on 2 Kings 13:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
THREE AND TWENTIETH YEAR. See note on 2 Kings 13:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. MADE ISRAEL TO SIN. See note on 1 Kings 14:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THEIR DAYS. Supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis_, by reading "all [his] days". Compare verses: 2 Kings 13:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD. And Jehovah. Note the parenthesis of verses: 2 Kings 13:5 and 2 Kings 13:6. A SAVIOUR. Some think an angel; some. Elisha; some,. general of Jehoahaz. Compare 2 Kings 13:25; 2 Kings 14:27. CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THE HOUSE OF. Some codices, with Aram, and Syriac, omit these words. WALKED. Hebrew "he [Israel] walked". THEREIN. Hebrew in it: i.e. in Jeroboam's way; but some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "in them". REMAINED. stood. THE GROVE. the _'Asherah._ See App-42. L... [ Continue Reading ]
ARE THEY NOT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS. See note on Deuteronomy 31:16. JOASH, or Jehoash. IN HIS STEAD: i.e. alone.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIRTY AND SEVENTH. Joash (of Israel) became king in the thirtyseventh year of Joash (of Judah). Amaziah, son of Joash (of Judah), became king in the second year of Joash (of Israel), 2 Kings 14:1. Therefore Amaziah became associate king in the thirty-ninth year of Joash of Judah: i.e. one year befo... [ Continue Reading ]
JEROBOAM. Usually known as Jeroboam II.... [ Continue Reading ]
SICK OF HIS SICKNESS. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6, Elisha's long ministry of sixty-six years was now drawing to. close, after forty-five years' silence. We hear of no sickness of Elijah. MY FATHER. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis._ THE CHARIOT OF ISRAEL.. memory of 2 Kings 2:12, wondering whe... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ARROW OF THE LORD. DELIVERANCE. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6. The arrow put for the deliverance Jehovah would give.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN OF GOD. See App-49. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ with Art. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
DIED. He was called in the days of Ahab (1 Kings 19:19), and ministered fifty years. COMING IN OF THE YEAR: i.e. the spring. Compare 2 Samuel 11:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY: probably those who were evading the Moabite marauders. HE REVIVED. he lived. The sixteenth miracle. See note on 2 Kings 2:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. But. AND HAD. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._... [ Continue Reading ]
BEN-HADAD. Probably the third of that name. Compare 1 Kings 15:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY WAR. in the war. Three times. According to 2 Kings 13:18.... [ Continue Reading ]