2 Chronicles 18:23-34
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
Which way <0335 01870> [Which way.]
see <07200> [Behold.]
inner room <02315> [into an inner chamber. or, from chamber to chamber. Heb. into a chamber in a chamber.]
"In one of the halls of the {seraglio} at Constantinople," says De La Motraye, "the eunuch made us pass by several little chambers, with doors shut, like the cells of monks or nuns, as far as I could judge by one that another eunuch opened." This exactly corresponds with the idea of a "chamber within a chamber;" and it would appear that Micaiah predicted that Zedekiah should fly for shelter to a Harem, which we have seen was deemed inviolate. (See on 1 Sa 19:16.)
return <07725> [and carry him back.]
Put <07760> [Put.]
prison <01004> [this fellow.]
bread <03906 03899> [bread of affliction.]
return <07725> [until I return.]
really ... return ... then <07725> [If.]
note <08085> [Hearken.]
king ..... King <04428> [the king.]
disguise ................... disguised <02664> [I will disguise.]
wear .... attire <0899 03847> [put thou on thy robes.]
king ........................ king <04428> [the king.]
fight ...... ranking <03898 06996> [Fight ye.]
ranking <01419 06996> [small or great.]
Jehoshaphat .................. Jehoshaphat <03092> [Jehoshaphat.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
God lured <05496 0430> [God moved them.]
away ... him <0310> [from pursuing him. Heb. from after him.]
shot <04900> [a certain man.]
random <08537> [at a venture. Heb. in his simplicity.]
plates <01694> [between the, etc. Heb. between the joints and between the breast plate.]
The {shiryon,} in Syriac, {sheryono,} seems to have covered both the back and breast of the warrior, and was consequently not properly a breast-plate, but a coat of mail or corslet. The corslet was made of flax or of wool woven very thick, of ox-hide, of brass, or of iron. The metallic corslet consisted not of solid piece, but of scales, hooks, or rings, connected like the links of a chain, that the warrior might move with greater ease. It was between the joints of this harness that Ahab received his mortal wound.
wounded <02470> [wounded. Heb. made sick.]
died <04191> [he died.]
