2 Kings 6:25-29

a great famine.

28,29; 7:4; 25:3; 1Ki 18:2; Jer 14:13-15,18; 32:24; 52:6

an 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 4:13-16

dove'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 22:1

Give thy son.

Le 26:29; De 28:53-57; Isa 9:20,21; 49:15; La 4:10; Eze 5:10

Mt 24:18-21; Lu 23:29

next. Heb. other. she hath hid.

1Ki 3:26; Isa 49:15; 66:13

Jeremiah 14:1-6

1 The grievous famine,

7 causes Jeremiah to pray.

10 The Lord will not be intreated for the people.

13 Lying prophets are no excuse for them.

17 Jeremiah is moved to complain for them.

A.M. 3399. B.C. 605. The word.This discourse is supposed to have been delivered after the fourth year of Jehoiakim. The Hebrew {batzaroth,} rendered dearth, signifies restraint, that is, "when the heaven is shut up that there is no rain;" which Houbigant thinks happened early in the reign of Zedekiah.

the dearth. Heb. the words of the dearths, or restraints.

17:8

mourneth.

4:28; 12:4; Isa 3:26; Ho 4:3; Joe 1:10

the gates.

Isa 24:4,7; 33:9

they.

8:21; La 2:9; 4:8,9; 5:10; Joe 2:6

the cry.

11:11; 18:22; Ex 2:24; 1Sa 5:12; 9:16; Job 34:28; Isa 5:7; 15:5

Zec 7:13

their nobles.

1Ki 18:5,6

pits.

2:13; 1Ki 17:7; 2Ki 18:31; Joe 1:20; Am 4:8

they were.

2:26,27; 20:11; Ps 40:14; 109:29; Isa 45:16,17

covered.

4; 2Sa 15:30; 19:4; Es 6:12

the ground.

Le 26:19,20; De 28:23,24; 29:23; Joe 1:19,20

the plowmen.

Joe 1:11,17

Job 39:1-4; Ps 29:9

the wild.

2:24; Job 39:5,6

they.They sucked in the air, for want of water, to cool their internal heat.

their.

1Sa 14:29; La 4:17; 5:17; Joe 1:18

Lamentations 4:3-10

sea monsters. or, sea calves. the daughter.

2:20; 4:10; Le 26:29; De 28:52-57; 2Ki 6:26-29; Isa 49:15; Jer 19:9

Eze 5:10; Lu 23:28,29

like.

Job 39:13-16; Ro 1:31

tongue.

Ps 22:15; 137:6

the young.

1:11; 2:11,12; De 32:24; Mt 7:9-11

that did.

De 28:54-56; Isa 3:16-26; 24:6-12; 32:9-14; Jer 6:2,3; Am 6:3-7

Lu 7:25; 1Ti 5:6; Re 18:7-9

brought.

2Sa 1:24; Pr 31:21; Lu 16:19

embrace.

Job 24:8; Jer 9:21,22; Lu 15:16

punishment of the iniquity of the daughter. or, iniquity ofthe daughter, etc.

Isa 1:9,10; Eze 16:48-50; Mt 11:23,24; Lu 10:12; 12:47

the punishment.

9; Ge 19:25; Da 9:12; Mt 24:21

Nazarites.

Nu 6:2-21; Jud 13:5,7; 16:17; Am 2:11,12; Lu 1:15

purer.

1Sa 16:12; Ps 51:7; 144:12; So 5:10; Da 1:15

their polishing.{Gizrathom,} rendered by Dr. Blayney, "their veining," from {gazar,} to divide, intersect, as the blue veins do the surface of the body. This is approved by Dr. A. Clarke, who remarks, "Milk will most certainly well apply to the whiteness of the skin; the beautiful ruby to the ruddiness of the flesh; and the sapphire, in its clear, transcendent purple, to the veins in a fine complexion."

visage.

5:10; Job 30:17-19,30; Joe 2:6; Na 2:10

blacker than a coal. Heb. darker than blackness.Or, as Dr. Blayney renders, "duskier than the dawn;" {shachar} signifying "the dawn of the day, when it is neither light nor dark, but between both, at which time objects are not easily distinguished."

they.

1,2; Ru 1:19,20; Job 2:12; Isa 52:14

their skin.

Job 19:20; 33:21; Ps 32:4; 38:3; 102:3-5,11; 119:83

for.

Le 26:39; Eze 24:23; 33:10

pine away. Heb. flow out.

hands.

3; 2:20; 2Ki 6:26-29

pitiful.

Isa 49:15

in.

3:48; De 28:56,57; 2Ki 6:29
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