1 Kings 20:29-43
seven days On .... day ............... day <07651 03117> [seven days.]
100,000 <03967 0505> [an hundred thousand.]
remaining <03498> [the rest.]
wall <02346> [a wall.]
ran .................. ran <05127> [fled.]
inner room <02315> [into an inner chamber. or, from chamber to chamber. Heb. into a chamber within a chamber.]
advisers <05650> [his servants.]
kings ....... kind ................... king <04428 02617> [merciful kings.]
put <07760> [let us, I pray thee.]
Six of the citizens of Calais are reported to have acted nearly in the same manner, when they surrendered their city to Edward the Third, king of England, in 1346. See the whole story circumstantially related by Sir John Froissart, (who lived in that time,) with that simplicity and detail that give it every appearance of truth.
put sackcloth <08242 07760> [put sackcloth.]
spare <02421> [peradventure.]
servant <05650> [Thy servant.]
brother <0251> [he is my brother.]
<0582> [the men.]
pulled ... up <05927> [and he caused.]
cities <05892> [The cities.]
set up ......... did ............ treaty .......... made ... treaty <07760 03772 01285> [So he made a covenant.]
One of the conditions of this covenant, we learn, was, that Ahab should have "streets (chutzoth) in Damascus;" a proposal better relished by Ahab then understood by the generality of commentators. This, however, is well illustrated by Mr. Harmer, from William of Tyre, the great historian of the Crusades; from whom it appears that it was customary to give those nations which were engaged in them, churches, streets, and great jurisdiction therein, in those places which they assisted to conquer. The Genoese and Venetians had each a street in Acon, or Acre, in which they had their own jurisdiction, with liberty to have an oven, mill, baths, weights, and measures, etc.
members <01121> [of the sons.]
<01697> [in the word.]
Wound ..... man .... wound him <05221 0376> [Smite me.]
man .... Wound ..... man wounded ... severely <05221 0376> [Smite me.]
Wound ...... wounded ... severely <05221> [so that, etc. Heb. smiting and wounding.]
disguised <02664> [disguised.]
servant <05650> [Thy servant.]
life <05315> [thy life.]
<08254> [or else.]
<08254> [pay. Heb. weigh.]
<0369> [he was gone. Heb. he was not. So shall thy judgment be.]
removed ... bandage <05493 0666> [the ashes away.]
released <07971> [Because.]
life <05315> [thy life shall go.]
<03212> [went.]
