2Ki 2:14, 20-22, 24, 3:14-16, 4:3-6, 16-17, 5:14, 27, 6:6, 9-12, 17-20, 32 | TSK | STEP

bring me.This was evidently intended to soothe and tranquillize the prophet's mind, which had been agitated and discomposed with holy indignation by the presence of the idolatrous king, and the recollection of his abomination. The soothing influence of music is generally acknowledged in every civilized nation.

1Sa 10:5; 16:23; 18:10; 1Ch 25:2,3; Eph 5:18,19

the hand.

1Ki 18:46; Eze 1:3; 3:14,22; 8:1; Ac 11:21

Make this valley.

4:3; Nu 2:18,16-18

2 Kings 4:3-6

empty vessels.

3:16; Joh 2:7

borrow not a few. Heb. scant not.

13:18,19; Ps 81:10; Joh 16:24

thou shalt shut.

32,33; 1Ki 17:19,20; Isa 26:20; Mt 6:6; Mr 5:40; Ac 9:40

and shalt pour.

Mr 6:37-44; 8:5-9; Joh 2:7-9; 6:11; Eph 3:20

she went.

5:11; 1Ki 17:15,16; Lu 1:45; Heb 11:7,8

when the vessels.

43,44; Mt 9:29; 13:58; 14:20; 15:37; Lu 6:19; 2Ch 6:12,13

And the oil.

13:19; Jos 5:12; 1Ki 17:14; Joh 6:12

2 Kings 4:16-17

About this.

Ge 17:21; 18:10,14

season. Heb. set time. thou shalt.

Ge 17:16,17; Lu 1:13,30,31

my lord.

2:19

do not lie.

28; 5:10,11; Ge 18:12-15; 1Ki 17:18; 18:9; Ps 116:11; Lu 1:18-20

Ge 21:1; 1Sa 1:19,20; Ps 113:9; Lu 1:24,25,36; Heb 11:11

2 Kings 5:14

went he down.

Job 31:13; Pr 9:9; 25:11,12; Eze 47:1-9; Zec 13:1; 14:8

according to.

2Ch 20:20; Joh 2:5; Heb 11:7,8

his flesh.

10; Job 33:25

and he was clean.

Lu 4:27; 5:13; Tit 2:14

2 Kings 5:27

leprosy.

1; Jos 7:25; Isa 59:2,3; Ho 10:13; Mal 2:3,4,8,9; Mt 27:3-5

Ac 5:5,10; 8:20; 1Ti 6:10; 2Pe 2:3

unto thy seed.

1Sa 2:30-36; 2Sa 3:29

a leper.

15:5; Ex 4:6; Nu 12:10

2 Kings 6:6

he cut down.This could have no natural tendency to raise the iron and cause it to swim: it was only a sign, or ceremony, which the prophet chose to employ on the occasion.

2:21; 4:41; Ex 15:25; Mr 7:33,34; 8:23-25; Joh 9:6,7

the iron.This was the real miracle; for the gravity of the metal must otherwise still have kept it at the bottom of the river.

2 Kings 6:9-12

Beware.

3:17-19; 1Ki 20:13,28

thither the Syrians.

4:27; Am 3:7; Re 1:1

sent to the place.To see if it were so. But the Vulgate renders, {misit rex Israel ad locum, et præoccupavit eum;} "the king of Israel sent to the place, and pre-occupied it;" which is very likely, though not expressed in the Hebrew text.

5:14; Ex 9:20,21; 1Ki 20:15; Pr 27:12; Mt 24:15-17

warned him.

Eze 3:18-21; Mt 2:12; 3:7; Heb 11:7

saved.

2:12; 13:14; 2Ch 20:20; Am 7:1-6; Ac 27:24

Therefore.

1Sa 28:21; Job 18:7-11; Ps 48:4,5; Isa 57:20,21; Mt 2:3-12

Will ye not.

1Sa 22:8

None. Heb. No. Elisha.

5:3,8,13-15; Am 3:7

telleth.

9,10; Isa 29:15; Jer 23:23,24; Da 2:22,23,28-30,47; 4:9-18

thy bed chamber.

Ps 139:1-4; Ec 10:20

2 Kings 6:17-20

prayed.

Ps 91:15; Jas 5:16-18

open his eyes.

18-20; Ps 119:18; Isa 42:7; Ac 26:18; Eph 1:18; Re 3:7

full of horses.

2:11; Ps 34:7; 68:17; 91:11; 104:3; Eze 1:13-16; Zec 1:8; 6:1-7

Mt 26:53; Heb 1:14; Re 19:11,14

Smite this people.Confound their sight, so that they may not know what they see; and so mistake one place for another. The word {sanverim,} rendered blindness, occurs only here and in Ge 19:11, on which see the Note.

De 28:28; Job 5:14; Zec 12:4; Joh 9:39; 12:40; Ac 13:11; Ro 11:7

follow me. Heb. come ye after me.

Mt 16:24; Mr 8:34; Lu 9:23

I will bring.

2Sa 16:18,19; Lu 24:16

open the eyes.

17; Lu 24:31

opened.

Jud 20:40-42; Lu 16:23