Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
2 Kings 6:18
Verse 2 Kings 6:18. Smite this people - with blindness] Confound their sight so that they may not know what they see, and so mistake one place for another.
Verse 2 Kings 6:18. Smite this people - with blindness] Confound their sight so that they may not know what they see, and so mistake one place for another.
THEY CAME DOWN TO HIM - The Syrians, who had been encamped on rising ground opposite the hill of Dothan, now descended and drew near to the city. The blindness with which they were smitten was not rea...
5. ELISHA AND THE SYRIANS CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The lost axe-head recovered (2 Kings 6:1)_ 2. Elisha makes known Ben-hadad's plans (2 Kings 6:8) 3. Elisha's arrest planned (2 Kings 6:13) 4. The blinded
AN AXEHEAD SWIMS. ELISHA AND THE SYRIANS AT DOTHAN. In several minor miracles Elisha is always represented as working them not by his word, but by some expedient. Thus he heals the miscarrying waters...
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....
_And when they came down to him_ As the words stand, -they" must refer to the Syrian troops, and to understand the sentence we must suppose that Elisha and his servant, the latter encouraged by the he...
B. ELISHA CAPTURES A TROOP OF SOLDIERS 6:13-23 TRANSLATION (13) And he said, Go and observe where he is, that I may send, and take him. And someone told him, Behold, in Dothan. (14) And he sent there...
_AND WHEN THEY CAME DOWN TO HIM, ELISHA PRAYED UNTO THE LORD, AND SAID, SMITE THIS PEOPLE, I PRAY THEE, WITH BLINDNESS. AND HE SMOTE THEM WITH BLINDNESS ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF ELISHA._ Smite this p...
ELISHA AND THE SIEGE OF SAMARIA 1. The place where we dwell] The mention of the Jordan (2 Kings 6:2) suggests that these sons of the prophets dwelt near Jericho: cp. 2 Kings 2:5. Probably Elisha did...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 6 THE AXE THAT THE MAN LOST V1 The group of the *prophets spoke to Elisha. ‘The place where we meet with you is too s...
AND WHEN THEY CAME DOWN TO HIM. — This would mean that the _Syrians came down_ to Elisha. But the prophet was, to begin with, in the city, which lay on the top of the hill; and the heavenly host inter...
וַ יֵּרְדוּ֮ אֵלָיו֒ וַ יִּתְפַּלֵּ֨ל אֱלִישָׁ֤ע...
ELISHA AND THE SYRIANS 2 Kings 6:1 "Now there was found in the city a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city." - Ecclesiastes 9:15 ELISHA, unlike his master Elijah, was, during a gr...
OPENED EYES 2 Kings 6:14 This is an acted parable of extreme beauty and suggestiveness. First, the stroke of trouble-swift, unlooked for, and apparently insurmountable; then the vivid contrast betwee...
The incident of the swimming of the iron axe head is interesting, but quite secondary. The chief value of the story lies in its revelation of the influence Elisha was exerting in the nation. The growt...
And when (i) they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. (i) Meanin...
Blindness. The blindness here spoken of was of a particular kind, which hindered them from seeing the objects that were really before them; and represented other different object to their imagination;...
The dreadful alarm of Elisha's servant, and the perfect composure of Elisha himself, hold forth a precious lesson. In minds of little or no faith, the smallest events, which appears unpromising, excit...
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 sons of the prophets must enlarge their dwelling-place, and Elisha, who consents to go with them, secures them from the results of their negligence by reversing the laws of nature. I know not if w...
AND WHEN THEY CAME DOWN TO HIM,.... The Syrian army, from the hill on which they were first seen, who came down from thence to the bottom of the hill on which the city stood; and whither Elisha came o...
And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. Ver. 18. _And...
_And when they came down to him_ Either in the city, into which they easily got admission, when they declared that the only end of their coming was to take Elisha; or rather, in the field, without the...
1 Elisha giuing leaue to the yong Prophets to inlarge their dwellings, causeth yron to swim. 8 Hee discloseth the king of Syria his counsell. 13 The armie which was sent to Dothan to apprehend Elish...
THE BLINDNESS OF THE SYRIANS...
And when they, the Syrians, CAME DOWN TO HIM, ELISHA PRAYED UNTO THE LORD AND SAID, SMITE THIS PEOPLE, I PRAY THEE, WITH BLINDNESS. AND HE, JEHOVAH, SMOTE THEM WITH BLINDNESS ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF...
"TOO SMALL FOR US" (vv.1-7) The sons of the prophets are often spoken of in connection with Elisha's history, but when banded together, they did nothing (so far as the record goes) that indicated th...
13-23 What Elisha said to his servant is spoken to all the faithful servants of God, when without are fightings, and within are fears. Fear not, with that fear which has torment and amazement; for th...
WHEN THEY CAME DOWN TO HIM; either in the city, into which they easily got admission, when they declared that the only end of their coming was to take Elisha; or in the field without the city, whither...
2 Kings 6:18 down H3381 (H8799) Elisha H477 prayed H6419 (H8691) LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Strike...
ISRAEL'S ONE MAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE AND THE FAILED ATTEMPT TO ABDUCT HIM (2 KINGS 6:8). The king of Aram was puzzled because he kept raiding Israel only to discover each time that the king of Israel...
2 Kings 6:1. _And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us._ It seems to have been a habit of the prophets to gather about them c...
CONTENTS: Elisha recovers the lost axe. Seige of Samaria by Syrians. CHARACTERS: God, Elisha, Ben-hadad, Jehoram, nameless woman. CONCLUSION: The Christian on his knees can see more than the philosop...
2 Kings 6:1. _Sons of the prophets._ See on 2 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 2:5. Their number had evidently encreased, though in evil times. Their college was a plain home-built house....
_Then the King of Syria warred against Israel._ ELISHA AT DOTHAN Seeing the invisible! Here is the young business man. He spends his days in a close and musty counting-room, casting up interminable f...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 6:1 With the healing of Naaman, Elisha has involved himself with Syria for the first time. That involvement now occupies most of the next two chapters, as the authors prepare t...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 6:18 BLINDNESS. Probably a dazed mental condition in which the Syrians are open to suggestion and manipulation but still able to follow the prophet to Samaria....
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-7:20 FURTHER MIRACLES WROUGHT BY ELISHA. The historian relates first a (comparatively) private miracle wrought by Elisha in the vicinity of Jericho, for the benefit of one of the ...
Now Naaman was the captain of the host of Syria, he was a great man with his master, he was honorable, because the LORD had actually helped him to subdue many nations. He was a mighty man and very bra...
Acts 13:11; Deuteronomy 28:28; Genesis 19:11; Job 5:14; John 12:40;...