Lev 26:26, Deu 28:38, 1Ki 17:1, 18:2, 2Ki 4:38, 6:25-29, 8:1, Eze 16:27 | TSK

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

2 Kings 8:1

1 The Shunammite, having left her country seven years, to avoid the forewarned famine, for Elisha's miracle's sake has her land restored by the king.

7 Hazael, being sent with a present by Ben-hadad to Elisha at Damascus, after he had heard the prophecy, kills his master, and succeeds him.

16 Jehoram's wicked reign in Judah.

20 Edom and Libnah revolt.

23 Ahaziah succeeds Jehoram.

25 Ahaziah's wicked reign.

28 He visits Joram, being wounded, at Jezreel.

A.M. 3113. B.C. 891. whose son.

4:18,31-35

sojourn.

Ge 12:10; 26:1; 47:4; Ru 1:1

the Lord.

Ge 41:25,28,32; Le 26:19,20,26; De 28:22-24,38-40; 1Ki 17:1; 18:2

Ps 105:16; 107:34; Hag 1:11; Lu 21:11,22; Ac 11:28

called for a famine.

Jer 25:29

seven years.

Ge 41:27; 2Sa 21:1; 24:13; Lu 4:25

Ezekiel 16:27

I have.

14:9; Isa 5:25; 9:12,17

and have.

De 28:48-57; Isa 3:1; Ho 2:9-12

thine.{Chukkach,} "thy portion;" the household provision of a wife--food, clothes, and money.

delivered.The Jews, under Manasseh, and the succeeding kings of Judah, made the temple itself the scene of their open and abominable idolatries, in addition to all their idol temples! which appears to be meant by "the eminent place," and "highplaces in every street," ver. 24. Allured by the prosperity of the Egyptians, they also connected themselves with them, and joined in their multiplied and abominable idolatries. And when Jehovah punished them by wars and famines, and by the Philistines, whose daughters are represented as ashamed of their enormous idolatries, instead of being amended, they formed alliances with the Assyrians, and worshipped their gods: and they even followed every idol which was worshipped between Canaan and Chaldea.

37; 23:22,25,28,29,46,47; Ps 106:41; Jer 34:21; Re 17:16

daughters. or, cities.

2Ki 24:2; 2Ch 28:18,19; Isa 9:12

which.

47,57; 5:6,7