2 Kings 8
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.
son <01121> [A.M. 3113. B.C. 891. whose son.]
live somewhere <01481> [sojourn.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
famine <07458 07121> [called for a famine.]
seven years <07651 08141> [seven years.]
family <01004> [with.]
land <0776> [land.]
[A.M. 3119. B.C. 885.]
king <04428> [the king.]
As it appears not likely that the king would hold conversation with a leprous man; or, that, knowing Gehazi had been dismissed with the highest disgrace from the prophet's service, he would talk with him concerning his late master; some have supposed that this happened before the cleansing of Naaman. But it agrees better with the chronology to consider it as having taken place after that event; the king, probably, having an insatiable curiosity to know the private history of a man who had done such astonishing things. As to the circumstances of Gehazi's disease, he might overlook that, and converse with him, keeping at a reasonable distance, as nothing but actual contact could defile.
Gehazi <01522> [Gehazi.]
Tell <05608> [Tell.]
great <01419> [all the great.]
Elisha ........ life ........................................... life <02421> [he had restored.]
woman .............................. woman <0802> [behold, the woman.]
master <0113> [My lord.]
eunuch <05631> [officer. or, eunuch.]
back ........... crops <07725 08393> [Restore all.]
Damascus <01834> [Damascus.]
Ben Hadad <01130> [Ben-hadad.]
prophet <0376 0430> [The man of God.]
[See on]
traveled <0935> [is come.]
Hazael <02371> [Hazael.]
Take <03947> [Take.]
oracle <01875> [enquire.]
Hazael <02371> [Hazael.]
<03027> [with him. Heb. in his hand.]
son ... Ben Hadad <01121 01130> [Thy son Ben-hadad.]
surely recover <02421> [Thou mayest.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
surely die <04191> [he shall surely die.]
Hazael <07760> [stedfastly. Heb. and set it. wept.]
master <0113> [my Lord.]
trouble <07451> [the evil.]
bits <07376> [dash.]
dog <03611> [a dog.]
accomplish <06213> [he should do.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
asked ...... tell .... replied ... told .... would surely recover <0559 02421> [He told me.]
next day <04283> [And it came.]
next day <04283> [on the morrow.]
took ... piece of cloth <03947 04346> [that he took a thick cloth.]
There is a considerable degree of ambiguity in this passage. The pronoun he is generally referred to Hazael; but Dr. Geddes and others are decidedly of the opinion, that we should understand by it Ben-hadad; who, encouraged by the favourable answer of Elisha, as reported by Hazael, adopted a violent remedy to allay the heat of his fever, and put over his face the {keever,} or fly-net, (See Note on 1 Sa 19:13,) dipped in water, which suddenly checked the perspiration, and occasioned his death.
died <04191> [so that he died.]
Hazael <02371> [Hazael.]
Jehoram <03088> [A.M. 3112. B.C. 892. Jehoram.]
became king over <04427> [began to reign. Heb. reigned.]
"Began to reign in concert with his father."
[A.M. 3112-3119. B.C. 892-885.]
footsteps <01870> [in the way.]
dynasty <01004> [the house.]
daughter <01323> [the daughter.]
married <0802> [his wife.]
David <01732> [for David.]
dynasty <05216> [light. Heb. candle, or lamp.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
set up .... king <04428 04427> [made a king.]
Zair <06811> [Zair.]
Zair is supposed by Calmet and others to be the same as Se‹r, the country of Seir the Horite, inhabited by the Edomites or Idumeans. Probably the former was a dialectical pronunciation of the latter.
Edom <0123> [Yet.]
"And so fulfilled. Ge 27:40."
Libnah <03841> [Libnah.]
passed away <07901> [slept.]
Ahaziah <0274> [Ahaziah.]
[Jehoahaz.]
[Azariah.]
[A.M. 3119-3120. B.C. 885-884.]
twenty-two <08147 06242> [Two and twenty.]
In the parallel passage of Chronicles, it is said, "forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign;" but this is evidently a mistake, as it makes the son two years older than his own father! For his father began to reign when he was thirty-two years old, and reigned eight years, and so died, being forty years old. See ver. 17, and the Note on 2 Ch 22:2.
years ........... one year <0259 08141> [one year.]
Athaliah <06271> [Athaliah.]
granddaughter <01323> [daughter. or, grand-daughter.]
<03212> [he walked.]
related <02860> [the son in law.]
<03212> [A.M. 3120. B.C. 884. he went.]
Hazael <02371> [Hazael.]
Ramoth <07433> [Ramoth-gilead.]
Joram .................................... Joram <03141> [Joram.]
received .... Syrians <0761 05221> [which the Syrians had given. Heb. wherewith the Syrians had wounded. Ramah.]
"Called Ramoth, ver. 28."
Ahaziah <0274> [Ahaziah.]
ill <02470> [sick. Heb. wounded.]
