2Ki 6:25-29, 8:1 | TSK | STEP | a great famine. an ass's head.If the pieces of silver were {drachms,} the whole would amount to about 2£. 9s.; which was a great price for so mean a part of this unclean animal. dove's dung.This probably denotes, as Bochart, Scheuchzer, and others suppose, a kind of {pulse,} or {vetches,} which the Arabs still call pigeon's dung. "They never," says Dr. Shaw, (Travels, p. 140), "constitute a dish by themselves, but are strewed singly as a garnish over {cuscasowe, pillowe,} and other dishes. They are besides in the greatest repute after they are parched in pans and ovens; then assuming the name {leblebby;}" and he thinks they were so called from being pointed at one end, and acquiring an ash colour in parching.

2 Kings 6:25-29

a great famine.

28,29; 7:4; 25:3; 1Ki 18:2; Jer 14:13-15,18; 32:24; 52:6

an ass's head.If the pieces of silver were {drachms,} the whole would amount to about 2£. 9s.; which was a great price for so mean a part of this unclean animal.

Eze 4:13-16

dove's dung.This probably denotes, as Bochart, Scheuchzer, and others suppose, a kind of {pulse,} or {vetches,} which the Arabs still call pigeon's dung. "They never," says Dr. Shaw, (Travels, p. 140), "constitute a dish by themselves, but are strewed singly as a garnish over {cuscasowe, pillowe,} and other dishes. They are besides in the greatest repute after they are parched in pans and ovens; then assuming the name {leblebby;}" and he thinks they were so called from being pointed at one end, and acquiring an ash colour in parching.

Help, my lord.

2Sa 14:4; Isa 10:3; Lu 18:3; Ac 21:28

If the Lord, etc. or, Let not the Lord save thee. whence.

Ps 60:11; 62:8; 118:8,9; 124:1-3; 127:1; 146:3; Isa 2:2; Jer 17:5

What aileth thee.

Ge 21:17; Jud 18:23; 1Sa 1:8; 2Sa 14:5; Ps 114:5; Isa 22:1

Give thy son.

Le 26:29; De 28:53-57; Isa 9:20,21; 49:15; La 4:10; Eze 5:10

Mt 24:18-21; Lu 23:29

next. Heb. other. she hath hid.

1Ki 3:26; Isa 49:15; 66:13