Chapter 6

1
the sons 2Kgs 2:3, 2Kgs 4:1; 1Kgs 20:35

the place 2Kgs 4:38; 1Sam 19:20

too strait for us Josh 17:14, Josh 19:47; Job 36:16; Isa 49:19-20, Isa 54:2-3


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and take thence John 21:3; Acts 18:3, Acts 20:34-35; 1Cor 9:6; 1Thess 2:9; 2Thess 3:8; 1Tim 6:6


3
Be content 2Kgs 5:23; Judg 19:6; Job 6:28

go with thy Judg 4:8


4
they cut down wood Deut 19:5, Deut 29:11


5
ax head Heb. iron, Eccl 10:10; Isa 10:34

master 2Kgs 6:15, 2Kgs 3:10; Rev 18:10, Rev 18:16, Rev 18:19

for it was borrowed 2Kgs 4:7; Exod 22:14-15; Ps 37:21


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he cut down This could have no natural tendency to raise the iron and cause it to swim. It was only a sign, or ceremony, which the prophet chose to employ on the occasion. 2Kgs 2:21, 2Kgs 4:41; Exod 15:25; Mark 7:33-34, Mark 8:23-25; John 9:6-7

the iron This was the real miracle; for the gravity of the metal must otherwise still have kept it at the bottom of the river.


7
Take it up 2Kgs 4:7, 2Kgs 4:36; Luke 7:15; Acts 9:41

put out Exod 4:4


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the king 2Kgs 6:24; 1Kgs 20:1, 1Kgs 20:34, 1Kgs 22:31

took 1Kgs 20:23; Job 5:12-13; Prov 20:18, Prov 21:30; Isa 7:5-7, Isa 8:10

camp or, encamping


9
Beware 2Kgs 3:17-19; 1Kgs 20:13, 1Kgs 20:28

thither the Syrians 2Kgs 4:27; Amos 3:7; Rev 1:1


10
sent to the place To see if it were so. But the Vulgate renders, misit rex Israel ad locum, et preoccupavit eum; "the king of Israel sent to the place, and pre-occupied it;" which is very likely, though not expressed in the Hebrew Text. 2Kgs 5:14; Exod 9:20-21; 1Kgs 20:15; Prov 27:12; Matt 24:15-17

warned him Ezek 3:18-21; Matt 2:12, Matt 3:7; Heb 11:7

saved 2Kgs 2:12, 2Kgs 13:14; 2Chr 20:20; Amos 7:1-6; Acts 27:24


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Therefore 1Sam 28:21; Job 18:7-11; Ps 48:4-5; Isa 57:20-21; Matt 2:3-12

Will ye not 1Sam 22:8


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None Heb. No

Elisha 2Kgs 5:3, 2Kgs 5:8, 2Kgs 5:13-15; Amos 3:7

telleth 2Kgs 6:9-10; Isa 29:15; Jer 23:23-24; Dan 2:22-23, Dan 2:28-30, Dan 2:47, Dan 4:9-18, thy bed chamber, Ps 139:1-4; Eccl 10:20


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spy where 1Sam 23:22-23; Ps 10:8-10, Ps 37:12-14, Ps 37:32-33; Jer 36:26; Matt 2:4-8; John 11:47-53; Acts 23:12-27

Dothan This is supposed to be the same place where Joseph was sold by his brethren; and it is placed by Eusebius 12 miles north of Samaria. Gen 37:17


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sent he thither horses It is strange the Syrian monarch did not think, that he who could penetrate his secrets with respect to the Israelitish army, could inform himself of all the machinations against his own life. 2Kgs 1:9-13; 1Sam 23:26, 1Sam 24:2; Matt 26:47, Matt 26:55; John 18:3-6

great Heb. heavy, 2Kgs 18:17 *marg.


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servant or, minister, 2Kgs 3:11, 2Kgs 5:20, 2Kgs 5:27; Exod 24:13; 1Kgs 19:21; Matt 20:26-28; Acts 13:5

Alas 2Kgs 6:5; 2Chr 20:12; Ps 53:5; Matt 8:26


16
Fear not Exod 14:13; Ps 3:6, Ps 11:1, Ps 27:3, Ps 118:11-12; Isa 8:12-13, Isa 41:10-14; Mark 16:6; Acts 18:9-10; Phil 1:28

they that be 2Chr 16:9, 2Chr 32:7-8; Ps 46:7, Ps 46:11, Ps 55:18; Isa 8:10; Matt 26:53; Rom 8:31; 1John 4:4


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prayed Ps 91:15; Jas 5:16-18

open his eyes 2Kgs 6:18-20; Ps 119:18; Isa 42:7; Acts 26:18; Eph 1:18; Rev 3:7

full of horses 2Kgs 2:11; Ps 34:7, Ps 68:17, Ps 91:11, Ps 104:3; Ezek 1:13-16; Zech 1:8, Zech 6:1-7; Matt 26:53; Heb 1:14; Rev 19:11, Rev 19:14


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Smite this people Confound their sight, so that they may not know what they see; and so mistake one place for another. The word sanverim, rendered blindness, occurs only here and in Gen 19:11 (see note). Deut 28:28; Job 5:14; Zech 12:4; John 9:39, John 12:40; Acts 13:11; Rom 11:7


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follow me Heb. come ye after me, Matt 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23

I will bring 2Sam 16:18-19; Luke 24:16


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open the eyes 2Kgs 6:17; Luke 24:31

opened Judg 20:40-42; Luke 16:23


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My father This was dastardly. The utmost he ought to have done with these men, when thus brought into his hand, was to make them prisoners of war. 2Kgs 2:12, 2Kgs 5:13, 2Kgs 8:9, 2Kgs 13:14

shall 1Sam 24:4, 1Sam 24:19, 1Sam 26:8; Luke 9:54-56, Luke 22:49


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wouldest Deut 20:11-16; 2Chr 28:8-13

thy sword Gen 48:22; Josh 24:12; Ps 44:6; Hos 1:7, Hos 2:18

set bread Prov 25:21-22; Matt 5:44; Rom 12:20-21


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he prepared 1Sam 24:17-18; 2Chr 28:15; Prov 25:21-22; Matt 5:47; Luke 6:35, Luke 10:29-37

So the bands That is, for a considerable time. What is mentioned in the next verse was more than a year afterwards. See note on 2Kgs 6:8-9, 2Kgs 5:2, 2Kgs 24:2


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gathered 2Kgs 17:5, 2Kgs 18:9, 2Kgs 25:1; Deut 28:52; 1Kgs 20:1, 1Kgs 22:31; Eccl 9:14


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a great famine 2Kgs 6:28-29, 2Kgs 7:4, 2Kgs 25:3; 1Kgs 18:2; Jer 14:13-15, Jer 14:18, Jer 32:24, Jer 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. Ezek 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.


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my lord 2Sam 14:4; Isa 10:3; Luke 18:3; Acts 21:28


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If the Lord etc. or, Let not the Lord save thee

whence Ps 60:11, Ps 62:8, Ps 118:8-9, Ps 124:1-3, Ps 127:1, Ps 146:3; Isa 2:2; Jer 17:5


28
What aileth thee Gen 21:17; Judg 18:23; 1Sam 1:8; 2Sam 14:5; Ps 114:5; Isa 22:1

Give thy son Lev 26:29; Deut 28:53-57; Isa 9:20-21, Isa 49:15; Lam 4:10; Ezek 5:10; Matt 24:18-21; Luke 23:29


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next Heb. other

she hath hid 1Kgs 3:26; Isa 49:15, Isa 66:13


30
he rent his clothes 2Kgs 5:7, 2Kgs 19:1; 1Kgs 21:27; Isa 58:5-7


31
God do so Ruth 1:17; 1Sam 3:17, 1Sam 14:44, 1Sam 25:22; 2Sam 3:9, 2Sam 3:35, 2Sam 19:13; 1Kgs 2:23

if the head 1Kgs 18:17, 1Kgs 19:2, 1Kgs 22:8; Jer 37:15-16, Jer 38:4; John 11:50; Acts 23:12-13


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the elders Ezek 8:1, Ezek 14:1, Ezek 20:1, Ezek 33:31

ere the messenger 2Kgs 6:12, 2Kgs 5:26

See ye how Luke 13:32

son of a murderer 1Kgs 18:4, 1Kgs 18:13-14, 1Kgs 21:10

the sound 1Kgs 14:6


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this evil is of the Lord Gen 4:13; Exod 16:6-8; 1Sam 28:6-8, 1Sam 31:4; Job 1:11, Job 1:21, Job 2:5, Job 2:9; Prov 19:3; Isa 8:21; Jer 2:25; Ezek 33:10; Matt 27:4-5; 2Cor 2:7, 2Cor 2:11; Rev 16:9-11

wait for the Ps 27:14, Ps 37:7, Ps 37:9, Ps 62:5; Isa 8:17, Isa 26:3, Isa 50:10; Lam 3:25-26; Hab 2:3; Luke 18:1


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