2Sa 12:7-12, 1Ki 21:19-24, Psa 50:21, Jer 2:33-35, Mar 6:18 | TSK | STEP

I will take.That is, in the course of my providence I will permit this to be done. Such phrases in Scripture do not mean that God either does or can do evil himself; but only that he permits such evil to be done as he foresaw would be done, and which, had he pleased, he might have prevented.

16:21,22; De 28:30; Eze 14:9; 20:25,26; Ho 4:13,14

secretly.

11:4,8,13,15; Ec 12:14; Lu 12:1,2; 1Co 4:5

1 Kings 21:19-24

Hast thou killed.

Ge 3:11; 4:9,10; 2Sa 12:9; Mic 3:1-4; Hab 2:9,12

In the place.This punishment, on Ahab's humiliation and repentance, was transferred from him to his son Jehoram, (ver. 29,) in whom it was literally accomplished: see the parallel texts.

22:38; Jud 1:7; 2Sa 12:11; 2Ki 9:25,26; Es 7:10; Ps 7:15,16

Ps 9:16; 58:10,11; Mt 7:2

Hast thou found me.

18:17; 22:8; 2Ch 18:7,17; Am 5:10; Mr 12:12; Ga 4:16; Re 11:10

Am 5:10; Mr 12:12; Ga 4:16; Re 11:10

thou hast sold.

25; 2Ki 17:17; Isa 50:1; 52:3; Ro 7:14

to work.

16:30; 2Ki 21:2; 2Ch 33:6; Eph 4:19

Behold.

14:10; Ex 20:5,6; 2Ki 9:7-9; 10:1-7,11-14,17,30

him that pisseth.

1Sa 25:22,34

him that is shut up.

14:10; De 32:36; 2Ki 9:8,9; 14:26

make thine.

15:29; 16:3,11

made Israel to sin.

14:16; 15:30,34; 16:26

Jezebel.

25; 2Ki 9:10,30-37

the dogs.Shocking as this must appear to minds that have been humanized by the kindly influence of Christianity, we still find similar instances in the accounts of modern travellers. Mr. Bruce says, that when at Gondar, "the bodies of those killed by the sword were hewn to pieces and scattered about the streets, being denied burial. I was miserable, and almost driven to despair, at seeing my hunting dogs, twice let loose by the carelessness of my servants, bringing into the court-yard the heads and arms of slaughtered men, and which I could no way prevent, but by the destruction of the dogs themselves."

wall. or, ditch.

that dieth.

14:11; 16:4; Isa 14:19; Jer 15:3; Eze 32:4,5; 39:18-20; Re 19:18