2Ch 18:23-24, Isa 50:5-6, Lam 3:30, Mic 5:1, Mar 14:65, 15:19-20 | TSK | STEP

2 Chronicles 18:23-24

Zedekiah.

10; 1Ki 22:23-25; Isa 50:5,6; Jer 20:2; La 3:30; Mic 5:1; Mt 26:67

Which way.

Behold.

into an inner chamber. or, from chamber to chamber. Heb.into a chamber in a chamber. "In one of the halls of the {seraglio} at Constantinople," says De La Motraye, "the eunuch made us pass by several little chambers, with doors shut, like the cells of monks or nuns, as far as I could judge by one that another eunuch opened." This exactly corresponds with the idea of a "chamber within a chamber;" and it would appear that Micaiah predicted that Zedekiah should fly for shelter to a Harem, which we have seen was deemed inviolate. (See on 1 Sa 19:16.)

1Ki 20:30; Isa 26:20

Isaiah 50:5-6

48:8; Ps 40:6-8; Mt 26:39; Joh 8:29; 14:31; 15:10; Php 2:8; Heb 5:8

Heb 10:5-9

gave.

La 3:30; Mic 5:1; Mt 5:39; 26:67; 27:26; Mr 14:65; 15:19

Lu 22:63,64; Joh 18:22; Heb 12:2

my cheeks.The eastern people always held the beard in great veneration; and to pluck a man's beard is one of the grossest indignities that can be offered. D'Arvieux gives a remarkable instance of an Arab, who, having received a wound in his jaw, chose to hazard his life rather than suffer the surgeon to cut off his beard. See Note on 2 Sa 10:4.

that plucked.

Ne 13:25

I hid.Another instance of the utmost contempt and detestation. Throughout the East it is highly offensive to spit in any one's presence; and if this is such an indignity, how much more spitting in the face?