2 Kings 1:1-8
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
After ... died <0310 04194> [after the.]
lattice <07639> [a lattice.]
The flat roofs of the eastern houses are generally surrounded by a parapet wall breast high; but instead of this, some terraces are guarded with balustrades only, or latticed work. Of the same kind, probably, was the lattice, or net, as the term {shevacha} seems to import, through which Ahaziah fell into the court. This incident proves the necessity of the law for the formation of battlements for roof, (De 22:8,) which God graciously dictated from Sinai, which furnishes a beautiful example of his paternal care and goodness; for the terrace was a place where many offices of the family were performed, and business frequently transacted.
injured <02470> [was sick.]
Baal Zebub <01176> [Baal-zebub.]
[Beelzebub. god.]
survive <02421> [whether.]
angelic messenger ............ messengers <04397> [angel.]
Elijah <0452> [Elijah.]
Get <06965> [Arise.]
God .................... god <0430> [it.]
way <01980> [ye go.]
<03381> [Thou shalt, etc. Heb. The bed whither thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it. but shalt.]
replied .......... told ................... says <0559> [Thus saith.]
lie on <03381> [therefore.]
man <0376 04941> [What manner of man was he? Heb. What was the manner of the man?]
hairy man <01167 08181> [an hairy man.]
That is, he wore a rough garment, either made of camels' hair, as that of John Baptist, or of a skin, dressed with the hair on. Sir J. Chardin informs us, in a MS. note on this place, cited by Mr. Harmer, that the eastern dervishes and fakeers are clothed just as Elijah was, with a hairy garment, girded with a leathern girdle.
