1Ki 20:31-34, 2Ki 10:4-5, Job 40:9, Mat 5:25, Luk 12:58, Act 12:20 | TSK | STEP | his servants. merciful kings. let us, I pray thee.Six of the citizens of Calais are reported to have acted nearly in the same manner, when they surrendered their city to Edward the Third, king of England, in 1346. See the whole story circumstantially related by Sir John Froissart, (who lived in that time,) with that simplicity and detail that give it every appearance of truth. put sackcloth. peradventure.

1 Kings 20:31-34

his servants.

merciful kings.

let us, I pray thee.Six of the citizens of Calais are reported to have acted nearly in the same manner, when they surrendered their city to Edward the Third, king of England, in 1346. See the whole story circumstantially related by Sir John Froissart, (who lived in that time,) with that simplicity and detail that give it every appearance of truth.

put sackcloth.

21:27-29; Ge 37:34; 2Sa 3:31; 14:2; 2Ki 19:1,2; Es 4:1-3; Isa 22:12

Isa 37:1; Jon 3:5,6; Re 11:3

peradventure.

2Ki 7:4; Es 4:16; Job 2:4; Mt 10:28

Thy servant.

3-6; Job 12:17,18; 40:11,12; Isa 2:11,12; 10:12; Da 5:20-23; Ob 1:3,4

he is my brother.

the men.

and he caused.

The cities.

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