Chapter 1

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Moab Num 24:7; 2Sam 8:2; 1Chr 18:2; Ps 60:8

after the 2Kgs 3:4-5, 2Kgs 8:20, 2Kgs 8:22


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a lattice The flat roofs of the eastern houses are generally surrounded by a parapet wall breast high; but instead of this, some terraces are guarded with balustrades only, or latticed work. Of the same kind, probably, was the lattice, or net, as the term shevacha seems to import, through which Ahaziah fell into the court. This incident proves the necessity of the law for the formation of battlements for roof (Deut 22:8), which God graciously dictated from Sinai, which furnishes a beautiful example of his paternal care and goodness; for the terrace was a place where many offices of the family were performed, and business frequently transacted. Judg 5:28; Song 2:9; Acts 20:9

was sick 1Kgs 22:34 *marg. 2Chr 21:14-15; Job 31:3

Baalzebub 2Kgs 1:3, 2Kgs 1:6, 2Kgs 1:16; Matt 10:25, Matt 12:24-27; Mark 3:22; Luke 11:15, Beelzebub

god Judg 11:24; 1Sam 5:10; 1Kgs 11:33; Isa 37:12, Isa 37:19

whether 2Kgs 8:7-10; 1Kgs 14:3


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angel 2Kgs 1:15; 1Kgs 19:5, 1Kgs 19:7; Acts 8:26, Acts 12:7-11

Elijah 2Kgs 1:8; 1Kgs 17:1

Arise 1Kgs 18:1

it 2Kgs 1:6, 2Kgs 1:16, 2Kgs 5:8, 2Kgs 5:15; 1Sam 17:46; 1Kgs 18:36; Ps 76:1

ye go Jer 2:11-13; Jonah 2:8; Mark 3:22


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Thou shalt etc. Heb. The bed whither thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it

but shalt Gen 2:17, Gen 3:4; Num 26:65; 1Sam 28:19; 1Kgs 14:12; Prov 11:19, Prov 14:32; Ezek 18:4


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Thus saith Isa 41:22-23

therefore 2Kgs 1:3-4; 1Chr 10:13-14; Ps 16:4


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What manner of man was he Heb. What was the manner of the man, Judg 8:18; 1Sam 28:14


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an hairy man That is, he wore a rough garment, either made of camels' hair, as that of John Baptist, or of a skin, dressed with the hair on. Sir J. Chardin informs us, in a manuscript note on this place, cited by Mr. Harmer, that the eastern dervishes and fakeers are clothed just as Elijah was, with a hairy garment, girded with a leathern girdle. Isa 20:2; Zech 13:4; Matt 3:4, Matt 11:8; Luke 1:17; Rev 11:3


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sent unto 2Kgs 6:13-14; 1Kgs 18:4, 1Kgs 18:10, 1Kgs 19:2, 1Kgs 22:8, 1Kgs 22:26-27; Matt 14:3

he sat 1Kgs 18:42; Luke 6:11-12

Thou man Amos 7:12; Matt 26:68, Matt 27:29, Matt 27:41-43; Mark 15:29, Mark 15:32; Heb 11:36


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If I be a man 2Kgs 2:23-24; Num 16:28-30; 1Kgs 18:36-38, 1Kgs 22:28; 2Chr 36:16; Ps 105:15; Matt 21:41, Matt 23:34-37; Acts 5:3-10

let fire Or, rather, as the original literally imports, and the LXX render, καταβησεται πυρ, fire shall come down; Elijah's words being simply declarative, and not imprecatory. Num 11:1, Num 16:35; Job 1:16; Ps 106:18; Luke 9:54; Heb 12:29; Rev 11:5

consumed Dan 3:22, Dan 3:25, Dan 6:24; Acts 12:19


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Again Num 16:41; 1Sam 6:9; Isa 26:11; Jer 5:3; John 18:5-12; Acts 4:16-17

O man 1Sam 22:17-19; Prov 29:12; Isa 32:7; Matt 2:16; Luke 22:63-64


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2Kgs 1:9-10


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he sent again Job 15:25-26; Prov 27:22; Eccl 9:3; Isa 1:5

fell on Heb. bowed, Isa 66:2

besought Exod 11:8; Num 12:11-13; 1Kgs 13:6; Isa 60:14; Rev 3:9

O man of God Ps 102:17; Jas 4:7


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Behold 2Kgs 1:10-11

let my life 1Sam 26:21, 1Sam 26:24; Ps 49:8, Ps 72:14, Ps 116:15; Prov 6:26; Matt 16:25-26; Acts 20:24


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be not afraid of him Gen 15:1; 1Kgs 18:15; Ps 27:1; Isa 51:12; Jer 1:17, Jer 15:20; Ezek 2:6; Matt 10:28; Heb 11:27


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Forasmuch 2Kgs 1:3-4, 2Kgs 1:6; Exod 4:22-23; 1Kgs 14:6-13, 1Kgs 21:18-24, 1Kgs 22:28

Baalzebub Literally, "the lord of flies;" or, as the LXX render, Βααλ μυεαν θεον, Baal the fly god. See note on Exod 8:24.

on which thou art gone up In the East there is usually at the end of each chamber a little gallery, raised three or four feet above the floor, with a balustrade in front, to which they go up by a few steps. Here they place their beds; an allusion to which situation is involved in this declaration of Elijah's, and frequently referred to in the Sacred Scriptures. See note on Gen 49:4. 2Kgs 5:21; Ps 132:3


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Jehoram As it is said in 2Kgs 3:1, that he began his reign in the eighteenth of Jehoshaphat, it is supposed that Jehoshaphat admitted his son Jehoram to reign with him eight or nine years before his death. "The second year that Jehoram was Prorex, and the eighteenth of Jehoshaphat."

in the second 2Kgs 3:1, 2Kgs 8:16-17; 1Kgs 22:51


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in the book 1Kgs 14:19, 1Kgs 22:39