WHOSE SON. Compare 2 Kings 4:35. FAMINE. the famine, which had already begun. Probably the same as 2 Kings 4:38. Occasion is not determined by the text, but, 2 Kings 8:3 takes up the history at the end of the seven years. IT SHALL ALSO COME. it is come. SEVEN YEARS: i.e. "[to last] seven years".... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN OF GOD. See App-49.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE GREAT THINGS. See note on 2 Kings 2:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
RESTORED. DEAD BODY. Compare 2 Kings 4:35. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_. FOR... FOR. Hebrew. _'al_. for [to call attention to].... [ Continue Reading ]
FRUITS. produce.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAZAEL. One of Ben-hadad's servants. PRESENT. It does not say that Elisha accepted it.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY GOOD. every kind of. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Genus). App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAYEST CERTAINLY RECOVER, &C.. "so far as re-covering goes, thou wilt recover. And [yet] Jehovah hath made me plainly see that he will surely die. " SURELY DIE. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_. See notes on Genesis 2:17 with Genesis 26:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE: i.e. Hazael. ASHAMED. The thought of murder came into his mind.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE EVIL. Described in 2 Kings 10:32. 2Ki 12:17. 2 Kings 13:3; 2 Kings 13:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
A DOG. Compare 1 Samuel 17:43; 1 Samuel 24:14; 2 Samuel 9:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
SURELY RECOVER. See note on 2 Kings 8:10. A false report.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT CAME TO PASS. The inscriptions of Shal-manezer II agree with this. The name of Jehu appears on them with Hazael's.... [ Continue Reading ]
JEHOSHAPHAT BEING THEN KING. Jehoram associated with him in Joram's filth year, and reigned solely in Joram's sixth year. Compare 2 Kings 9:29. Joram (of Ahab) began in Jehoshaphat's eighteenth year (2 Kings 3:1). His fifth year is therefore Jehoshaphat's twenty-third year, when Jehoram is associate... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as. DAUGHTER OF AHAB. Compare 2 Kings 8:26. See App-55. DID EVIL. Compare 2 Chronicles 21:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS HE PROMISED. Compare 1 Samuel 7:13. LIGHT. Compare 1 Kings 11:36. See note on Genesis 15:17. Hebrew. _ner_. Found only four times, and always of David (2 Samuel 21:17; 1 Kings 11:36; 1 Kings 8:19; 2 Chronicles 21:7). AND TO HIS CHILDREN. Many codices, and five early printed editions, read "for... [ Continue Reading ]
EDOM REVOLTED. Compare 2 Chronicles 21:8 with 1 Kings 22:47, and see above (2 Kings 3:9).... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PEOPLE: i.e. of Judah.... [ Continue Reading ]
YET EDOM, &C. The success of Edom accounted for from the end of 2 Kings 8:21, and Genesis 27:40. THIS DAY. Written therefore before the captivity of Judah. THEN LIBNAH REVOLTED. Compare 2 Chronicles 21:10. Lib-nah was. city of the priests (Joshua 21:13), and Jehoram with his wife and sons had "brok... [ Continue Reading ]
THE REST. Compare 2 Chronicles 21. JORAM. Jehoram. ARE THEY NOT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS. See note on Deuteronomy 31:16. AHAZIAH HIS SON: i.e. his youngest son; all the rest being slain. See 2 Chronicles 21:17; 2 Chronicles 22:1. and App-55.... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO AND TWENTY YEARS. See note on 2 Chronicles 22:2. AHAZIAH. Note that Ahaziah, Joash, and Amaziah, omitted in Matthew 1:8, all died violent deaths (2Ki 9:27. 2 Kings 12:20; 2 Kings 14:19). DAUGHTER. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Genus), for grand-daughter; and even for successors not... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
RAMAH. Ramoth-gilead.... [ Continue Reading ]