2Ki 8:28-9:13 | TSK | STEP | A.M. 3120. B.C. 884. he went. Hazael. Ramoth-gilead.

Gird up thy loins.As the upper garments of the Orientals were long and flowing, it was indispensably necessary to tuck up the skirts with a girdle about their loins, in order to use any expedition in their work or on a journey.

4:29; 1Ki 18:46; Jer 1:17; Lu 12:35-37; 1Pe 1:13

box of oil.

1Sa 10:1; 16:1; 1Ki 1:39

Ramoth-gilead.

8:28,29; De 4:1,3; 1Ki 22:4,20

Jehu.Jehoram having retired from the army, Jehu seems to have been left first in command, having been long employed by Ahab's family.

14; 1Ki 19:16,17

among his brethern.

5,11

inner chamber. Heb. chamber in a chamber.

1Ki 20:30; 22:25; *margins

pour it.

Ex 29:7; Le 8:12; 1Sa 16:13; 1Ki 19:16

I have anointed.

8:13; 1Sa 9:16; 15:1,17; 16:12; Ps 75:6,7; Pr 8:15,16; Jer 27:5-7

Da 2:1; 4:35; 5:18; Joh 19:10,11

and flee.

1Sa 16:2; Mt 2:13; 10:16

the young man.{Hannäâr hannavee,} not as some would render, "the servant of the prophet," but, as correctly rendered by our venerable translators, "the young man, the prophet;" for [hn`r,] hannäâr, "the young man," is not in {regimine,} but in {appositione,} with [hnby',] {hannavee,} "the prophet."

I have an errand.

Jud 3:19

he arose.

Ac 23:18,19

I have anointed.

3; 1Ki 1:34; 19:16; 2Ch 22:7; Ps 2:6; *marg:

Ps 75:6; Isa 45:1; Da 2:21; 4:17,32; 5:20,21

over the people.

1Ki 3:8; 10:9; 14:7; 16:2

I may avenge.

De 32:35,43; Ps 94:1-7; Mt 23:35; Lu 18:7,8; Ro 12:19; 13:4

Heb 10:30; Re 6:9,10; 18:20; 19:2

at the hand.

32-37; 1Ki 18:4; 21:15,21,25

I will cut off.

1Ki 14:10,11; 21:21,22

him that pisseth.

1Sa 25:22

him that is shut up.

14:26; De 32:36

like the house.

1Ki 14:10,11; 15:29; 21:22

and like the house.

1Ki 16:3-5,11,12

the dogs.

35,36; 1Ki 21:23; Jer 22:19

he opened.

3; Jud 3:26

Is all well.

17,19,22; 4:26; 5:21

this mad fellow.It is probable there was something peculiar in the young prophet's manner and address, similar to the vehement actions sometimes used by the prophets when under the Divine influence, which caused the bystanders to use this contemptuous language.

Isa 59:15; *marg:

Jer 29:26; Ho 9:7; Mr 3:21; Joh 10:20; Ac 17:18; 26:24; 1Co 4:10

2Co 5:13

Thus and thus.

6-10

and took every.The spreading of garments in the street, before persons to whom it was intended to shew particular honour, was an ancient and very general custom; the garments in these cases being used for carpets. In the Agamemnon of Æschylus, the hypocritical Clytemnestra commands the maids to spread carpets before her returning husband, that on his descending from his chariot he may place his foot on "a purple-covered path." We also find this custom among the Romans. Plutarch relates, that when Cato of Utica left the Macedonian army, where he had become legionary tribune, the soldiers spread their clothes in the way.

Mt 21:7,8; Mr 11:7,8

on the top.The ancient fortified cities were generally strengthened with a citadel, (Jud 9:46, 51,) commonly built on an eminence, to which they ascended by a flight of stairs, (Ne 3:15.) It is extremely probable, therefore, that Ramoth-gilead, being a frontier town of Israel and Syria, had a tower of this nature; and that Jehu was proclaimed king on the top of the stairs by which they ascended the hill on which the tower stood, i.e., in the area before the door of the tower, and consequently the most public place in the city.

blew with trumpets.

2Sa 15:10; 1Ki 1:34,39; Ps 47:5-7; 98:6

is king. Heb. reigneth.