1Ki 20:1-5, 33-34, 2Ki 8:7-15 | TSK | STEP | Ben-hadad, not content with Ahab's homage, besieges Samaria. By the direction of a prophet, the Syrians are slain. As the prophet forewarned Ahab, the Syrians, trusting in the valleys, come against him in Aphek. By the word of the prophet, and God's judgment, the Syrians are smitten again. The Syrians submitting themselves, Ahab sends Ben-hadad away with a covenant. The prophet, under the parable of a prisoner, making Ahab judge himself, denounces God's judgment against him. A.M. 3103. B.C. 901. Ben-hadad. Thirty and two. and horses. besieged.

1 Kings 20:1-5

1 Ben-hadad, not content with Ahab's homage, besieges Samaria.

13 By the direction of a prophet, the Syrians are slain.

22 As the prophet forewarned Ahab, the Syrians, trusting in the valleys, come against him in Aphek.

28 By the word of the prophet, and God's judgment, the Syrians are smitten again.

31 The Syrians submitting themselves, Ahab sends Ben-hadad away with a covenant.

35 The prophet, under the parable of a prisoner, making Ahab judge himself, denounces God's judgment against him.

A.M. 3103. B.C. 901. Ben-hadad.

15:18,20; 2Ki 8:7-10; 2Ch 16:2-4; Jer 49:27; Am 1:4

Thirty and two.

16,24; Ge 14:1-5; Jud 1:7; Ezr 7:12; Isa 10:8; Eze 26:7; Da 2:37

and horses.

Ex 14:7; De 20:1; Jud 4:3; 1Sa 13:5; Isa 37:24

besieged.

Le 26:25; De 28:52; 2Ki 6:24-29; 17:5,6

2Ki 19:9; Isa 36:2-22; 37:9,10

Ex 15:9; Isa 10:13,14

I am thine.

Le 26:36; De 28:48; Jud 15:11-13; 1Sa 13:6,7; 2Ki 18:14-16

1 Kings 20:33-34

the men.

Pr 25:13; Lu 16:8

and he caused.

2Ki 10:15; Ac 8:31

The cities.

15:20; 2Ch 16:4

So he made a covenant.One of the conditions of this covenant, we learn, was, that Ahab should have "streets (chutzoth) in Damascus;" a proposal better relished by Ahab then understood by the generality of commentators. This, however, is well illustrated by Mr. Harmer, from William of Tyre, the great historian of the Crusades; from whom it appears that it was customary to give those nations which were engaged in them, churches, streets, and great jurisdiction therein, in those places which they assisted to conquer. The Genoese and Venetians had each a street in Acon, or Acre, in which they had their own jurisdiction, with liberty to have an oven, mill, baths, weights, and measures, etc.

42; 22:31; 2Ch 18:30; Isa 8:12; 26:10

2 Kings 8:7-15

Damascus.

Ge 14:15; 1Ki 11:24; Isa 7:8

Ben-hadad.

6:24; 1Ki 15:18; 20:1,34

The man of God.

See on

is come.

Hazael.

Take.

5:5; 1Sa 9:7; 1Ki 14:3

enquire.

1:2,6; 3:11-13; 1Ki 14:1-4; Lu 13:23; Ac 16:30

Hazael.

1Ki 19:15

with him. Heb. in his hand.

5:5

Thy son Ben-hadad.

6:21; 13:14; 16:7; 1Sa 25:8; Phm 1:14

Thou mayest.

1Ki 22:15

the Lord.

13; Ge 41:39; Jer 38:21; Eze 11:25; Am 3:7; 7:1,4,7; 8:1; Zec 1:20

Re 22:1

he shall surely die.

15; 1:4,16; Ge 2:17; Eze 18:13

stedfastly. Heb. and set it. wept.

Ge 45:2; Ps 119:136; Jer 4:19; 9:1,18; 13:17; 14:17; Lu 19:41

Joh 11:35; Ac 20:19,31; Ro 9:2; Php 3:18

my Lord.

4:28; 1Ki 18:13

the evil.

10:32,33; 12:17; 13:3,7; Am 1:3,4

dash.

15:16; Ps 137:8,9; Isa 13:16,18; Ho 10:14; 13:16; Am 1:3-5,13

Na 3:10

a dog.

1Sa 17:43; 2Sa 9:8; Ps 22:16,20; Isa 56:10,11; Mt 7:6; Php 3:2

Re 22:15

he should do.

Jer 17:9; Mt 26:33-35

The Lord.

10; 1Ki 19:15; Mic 2:1

He told me.

10; 5:25; Mt 26:16

And it came.

13; 1Sa 16:12,13; 24:4-7,13; 26:9-11; 1Ki 11:26-37

on the morrow.

Ps 36:4; Mic 2:1

that he took a thick cloth.There is a considerable degree of ambiguity in this passage. The pronoun he is generally referred to Hazael; but Dr. Geddes and others are decidedly of the opinion, that we should understand by it Ben-hadad; who, encouraged by the favourable answer of Elisha, as reported by Hazael, adopted a violent remedy to allay the heat of his fever, and put over his face the {keever,} or fly-net, (See Note on 1 Sa 19:13,) dipped in water, which suddenly checked the perspiration, and occasioned his death.

so that he died.

9:24; 15:10-14,25,30; 1Ki 15:28; 16:10,18; Isa 33:1

Hazael.

13; 1Ki 19:15