
Text -- 2 Kings 15:25 (NET)




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JFB -> 2Ki 15:25
JFB: 2Ki 15:25 - -- Many commentators view these as the captain's accomplices. But it is more probable that they were influential friends of the king, who were murdered a...
Many commentators view these as the captain's accomplices. But it is more probable that they were influential friends of the king, who were murdered along with him.
Clarke -> 2Ki 15:25
Clarke: 2Ki 15:25 - -- Smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’ s house, with Argob and Arieh - Who Argob and Arieh were we know not; some make them men, some...
Smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’ s house, with Argob and Arieh - Who Argob and Arieh were we know not; some make them men, some make them statues. Pekah had fifty Gileadites in the conspiracy with him.
TSK -> 2Ki 15:25
TSK: 2Ki 15:25 - -- am 3245, bc 759
Pekah : 2Ki 15:27; 2Ch 28:6
a captain : 2Ki 9:5; 1Ki 16:9
conspired : 2Ki 15:10, 2Ki 9:14
with Argob : From the contstruction of the H...

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Barnes -> 2Ki 15:25
Barnes: 2Ki 15:25 - -- A captain of his - A mere "captain,"a person, therefore, of very moderate rank. The low birth of Pekah is probably glanced at in Isaiah’ s...
A captain of his - A mere "captain,"a person, therefore, of very moderate rank. The low birth of Pekah is probably glanced at in Isaiah’ s favorite designation of him as "Remaliah’ s son"Isa 7:4-5, Isa 7:9; Isa 8:6.
From the fact that Pekah employed Gileadites to carry out his designs, it has been conjectured that he himself belonged to the trans-Jordanic region.
In the palace of the king’ s house - Rather, "In the tower of the king’ s palace;"or possibly "in the harem of the king’ s palace"(1Ki 16:18 note).
Poole -> 2Ki 15:25
Poole: 2Ki 15:25 - -- Argob and Arieh might be either Pekah’ s partners in this treason, or the king’ s courtiers or officers, who were now slain with him.
Fift...
Argob and Arieh might be either Pekah’ s partners in this treason, or the king’ s courtiers or officers, who were now slain with him.
Fifty men of the Gileadites who assisted him in the execution of his treason.
Haydock -> 2Ki 15:25
Haydock: 2Ki 15:25 - -- Near. Hebrew, "may be along with Argob, &c." who were in the conspiracy. (Chaldean, Septaugint, &c.) (Calmet)
Near. Hebrew, "may be along with Argob, &c." who were in the conspiracy. (Chaldean, Septaugint, &c.) (Calmet)
Gill -> 2Ki 15:25
Gill: 2Ki 15:25 - -- But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his,.... The word signifies a "third" man, the third to the king, as some think; Josephus a calls him a "c...
But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his,.... The word signifies a "third" man, the third to the king, as some think; Josephus a calls him a "chiliarch", one that had the command of a thousand men:
conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house; Josephus b says it was at a banquet:
with Argob, and Arieh; whom, according to Abarbinel, Pekah slew with the king, being mighty men, who were always about him; but they seem rather to be conspirators with Pekah, and assisting to him in smiting the king; the former of these, Ben Gersom thinks, was governor of Argob, a country on the other side Jordan, and the latter had his name from his fortitude, which signifies a lion:
and with him fifty men of the Gileadites; which may seem to strengthen the above notion concerning Argob, since the Gileadites were of the same side of Jordan, and were near Argob, see Deu 3:13.
and he killed him, and reigned in his room, as his father killed Shallum, and reigned in his stead.

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NET Notes: 2Ki 15:25 The precise identity of Argob and Arieh, as well as their relationship to the king, are uncertain. The usual assumption is that they were officials as...
Geneva Bible -> 2Ki 15:25
Geneva Bible: 2Ki 15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with ( i ) Argob ...

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TSK Synopsis -> 2Ki 15:1-38
TSK Synopsis: 2Ki 15:1-38 - --1 Azariah's good reign.5 He dying a leper, Jotham succeeds.8 Zachariah the last of Jehu's generation, reigning ill, is slain by Shallum.13 Shallum, re...
MHCC -> 2Ki 15:8-31
MHCC: 2Ki 15:8-31 - --This history shows Israel in confusion. Though Judah was not without troubles, yet that kingdom was happy, compared with the state of Israel. The impe...
Matthew Henry -> 2Ki 15:8-31
Matthew Henry: 2Ki 15:8-31 - -- The best days of the kingdom of Israel were while the government was in Jehu's family. In his reign, and the next three reigns, though there were ma...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 2Ki 15:23-26
Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ki 15:23-26 - --
Reign of Pekahiah. - Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign "in the fiftieth year of Uzziah."As Menahem had begun to reign in the thirty-ninth y...
Constable -> 2Ki 9:30--18:1; 2Ki 15:23-26
Constable: 2Ki 9:30--18:1 - --C. The Second Period of Antagonism 9:30-17:41
The kingdoms of Israel and Judah continued without an alli...
