2 Kings 6
1 Elisha, giving leave to the young prophets to enlarge their dwellings, causes iron to swim.8 He discloses the king of Syria's counsel.13 The army which was sent to Dothan to apprehend Elisha, is smitten with blindness.19 Being brought into Samaria, they are dismissed in peace.24 The famine in Samaria causes women to eat their own children.30 The king sends to slay Elisha. the sons.2:3; 4:1; 1Ki 20:35the place.4:38; 1Sa 19:20too strait for us.Jos 17:14; 19:47; Job 36:16; Isa 49:19,20; 54:2,3 and take thence.Joh 21:3; Ac 18:3; 20:34,35; 1Co 9:6; 1Th 2:9; 2Th 3:8; 1Ti 6:6 Be content.5:23; Jud 19:6; Job 6:28go with thy.Jud 4:8 they cut down wood.De 19:5; 29:11 axe head. Heb. iron.Ec 10:10; Isa 10:34Alas, master.15; 3:10; Re 18:10,16,19for it was borrowed.4:7; Ex 22:14,15; Ps 37:21 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 9:6,7the iron.This was the real miracle; for the gravity of the metal must otherwise still have kept it at the bottom of the river. Take it up.4:7,36; Lu 7:15; Ac 9:41put out.Ex 4:4 the king.24; 1Ki 20:1,34; 22:31took.1Ki 20:23; Job 5:12,13; Pr 20:18; 21:30; Isa 7:5-7; 8:10camp. or, encamping. Beware.3:17-19; 1Ki 20:13,28thither 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 24:15-17warned him.Eze 3:18-21; Mt 2:12; 3:7; Heb 11:7saved.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 2:3-12Will ye not.1Sa 22:8 None. Heb. No. Elisha.5:3,8,13-15; Am 3:7telleth.9,10; Isa 29:15; Jer 23:23,24; Da 2:22,23,28-30,47; 4:9-18thy bed chamber.Ps 139:1-4; Ec 10:20 spy where.1Sa 23:22,23; Ps 10:8-10; 37:12-14,32,33; Jer 36:26; Mt 2:4-8Joh 11:47-53; Ac 23:12-27Dothan.This is supposed to be the same place where Joseph was sold by his brethren; and it is placed by Eusebius 12 miles north of Samaria. Ge 37:17 sent he thither horses.It is strange the Syrian monarch did not think, that he who could penetrate his secrets with respect to the Israelitish army, could inform himself of all the machinations against his own life. 1:9-13; 1Sa 23:26; 24:2; Mt 26:47,55; Joh 18:3-6great. Heb. heavy.18:17; *marg: servant. or, minister.3:11; 5:20,27; Ex 24:13; 1Ki 19:21; Mt 20:26-28; Ac 13:5Alas.5; 2Ch 20:12; Ps 53:5; Mt 8:26 Fear not.Ex 14:13; Ps 3:6; 11:1; 27:3; 118:11,12; Isa 8:12,13; 41:10-14Mr 16:6; Ac 18:9,10; Php 1:28they that be.2Ch 16:9; 32:7,8; Ps 46:7,11; 55:18; Isa 8:10; Mt 26:53; Ro 8:311Jo 4:4 prayed.Ps 91:15; Jas 5:16-18open his eyes.18-20; Ps 119:18; Isa 42:7; Ac 26:18; Eph 1:18; Re 3:7full of horses.2:11; Ps 34:7; 68:17; 91:11; 104:3; Eze 1:13-16; Zec 1:8; 6:1-7Mt 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 9:23I will bring.2Sa 16:18,19; Lu 24:16 open the eyes.17; Lu 24:31opened.Jud 20:40-42; Lu 16:23 My father.This was dastardly: the utmost he ought to have done with these men, when thus brought into his hand, was to make them prisoners of war. 2:12; 5:13; 8:9; 13:14shall.1Sa 24:4,19; 26:8; Lu 9:54-56; 22:49 wouldest.De 20:11-16; 2Ch 28:8-13thy sword.Ge 48:22; Jos 24:12; Ps 44:6; Ho 1:7; 2:18set bread.Pr 25:21,22; Mt 5:44; Ro 12:20,21 he prepared.1Sa 24:17,18; 2Ch 28:15; Pr 25:21,22; Mt 5:47; Lu 6:35; 10:29-37So the bands.That is, for a considerable time. What is mentioned in the next verse was more than a year afterwards. See on ver. 8,9; 5:2; 24:2 gathered.17:5; 18:9; 25:1; De 28:52; 1Ki 20:1; 22:31; Ec 9:14 a great famine.28,29; 7:4; 25:3; 1Ki 18:2; Jer 14:13-15,18; 32:24; 52:6an 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 4:13-16dove'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 22:1Give thy son.Le 26:29; De 28:53-57; Isa 9:20,21; 49:15; La 4:10; Eze 5:10Mt 24:18-21; Lu 23:29 next. Heb. other. she hath hid.1Ki 3:26; Isa 49:15; 66:13 he rent his clothes.5:7; 19:1; 1Ki 21:27; Isa 58:5-7 God do so.Ru 1:17; 1Sa 3:17; 14:44; 25:22; 2Sa 3:9,35; 19:13; 1Ki 2:23if the head.1Ki 18:17; 19:2; 22:8; Jer 37:15,16; 38:4; Joh 11:50; Ac 23:12,13 the elders.Eze 8:1; 14:1; 20:1; 33:31ere the messenger.12; 5:26See ye how.Lu 13:32son of a murderer.1Ki 18:4,13,14; 21:10the sound.1Ki 14:6 this evil is of the Lord.Ge 4:13; Ex 16:6-8; 1Sa 28:6-8; 31:4; Job 1:11,21; 2:5,9; Pr 19:3Isa 8:21; Jer 2:25; Eze 33:10; Mt 27:4,5; 2Co 2:7,11; Re 16:9-11wait for the.Ps 27:14; 37:7,9; 62:5; Isa 8:17; 26:3; 50:10; La 3:25,26; Hab 2:3Lu 18:1
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