2 Kings 6:1
STRAIT. narrow.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRAIT. narrow.... [ Continue Reading ]
ONE. the one: i.e. of 2 Kings 6:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
CUT DOWN. Hebrew. _nazar._ Compare 2 Kings 6:6. WOOD. logs.... [ Continue Reading ]
AXE HEAD. Hebrew "iron", put by Fig; _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the axe head made of iron. Compare 2 Kings 6:6. where the Figure of speech is translated literally. ALAS. Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN OF GOD. See App-49. CUT DOWN. Not same word as 2 Kings 6:3. Hebrew. _kazab_. to cut evenly: i.e. shape or size evenly. Occurs only here and Song of Solomon 4:2 ("even shorn"). A STICK. a helve. IRON DID SWIM. made him see the iron: by causing it to rise to the surface. Elisha's twelfth miracl... [ Continue Reading ]
KING OF SYRIA. Probably Ben-hadad of 2 Kings 6:24; 1 Kings 20:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
KING OF ISRAEL. Jehoram.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT. for: i.e. "[the fact is] that".... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SERVANT. attendant. HIS SERVANT. young man. Hebrew. _na'ar._... [ Continue Reading ]
OPEN HIS EYES. Elisha's thirteenth miracle. See note on 2 Kings 2:15. SEE... SAW. see... saw clearly.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLINDNESS. Elisha's fourteenth miracle. See note on 2 Kings 2:15. One of nine instances of persons so afflicted. See note on Genesis 19:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL BRING. So he did. BUT. And; or. So. HE LED THEM TO SAMARIA: where they found the man they sought: i.e. Elisha himself.... [ Continue Reading ]
OPEN. Elisha's fifteenth miracle. See note on 2 Kings 2:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
BANDS. marauding bands.... [ Continue Reading ]
GATHERED. This was organized war, in contrast with the freebooting irregular bands of 2 Kings 6:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
FAMINE. One of the thirteen recorded in Scripture. See note on Genesis 12:10. ASS'S HEAD. This was unclean food. PIECES. Supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6), "shekels" instead of "pieces". CAB. Only occurrence. See App-51. DOVE'S DUNG.. _Euphemism_ (App-6) is included in official Massoret... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THE LORD DO NOT HELP THEE. Hebrew reads "Let not Jehovah help thee", as in Authorized Version margin The Revised Version "Nay, let Jehovah help thee", is contrary to the normal sense of this negative. Ginsburg suggests that _'al_ (not) is an abbreviation for _'im lo,_ which is the exact equivalen... [ Continue Reading ]
WOMAN. One of the ten deaths occasioned by women. See note on Judges 4:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
WE BOILED. Compare Deuteronomy 28:53.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOLD HIM FAST AT THE DOOR: or, hold the door fast against him. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
MESSENGER. Hebrew. _hammal'ak,_ without the. _aleph_ ('a), as in Septuagint and Syriac. In 1 Samuel 11:4 the case is reversed. The _Massorah_ informs us that the _aleph_ was wrongly inserted, making it read messengers instead of "kings". The king must have followed on his heels, for Elisha addresses... [ Continue Reading ]