2 Kings 1:17
Jehoram ......... Jehoram <03088> [Jehoram.]
As it is said in ch. 3:1, that he began his reign in the eighteenth of Jehoshaphat, it is supposed that Jehoshaphat admitted his son Jehoram to reign with him eight or nine years before his death. "The second year that Jehoram was Prorex, and the eighteenth of Jehoshaphat."
second <08147> [in the second.]
2 Kings 3:27
offered ... up .... burnt sacrifice <05927 05930> [offered him.]
In cases of great extremity, it was customary in various heathen nations, to offer human sacrifices, and even their own children. This was frequent among the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Scythians, Gauls, Africans, and others; and was the natural fruit of a religious system, which had for the objects of its worship cruel and merciless divinities. The king of Moab, in this case, sacrificed his son to obtain the favour of Chemosh his god, who, being a devil, delighted in blood and murder, and the destruction of mankind. The dearer any thing was to them, the more acceptable those idolaters thought the sacrifice, and therefore burnt their children in the fire to their honour.
broke off <05265> [they departed.]
2 Kings 8:6
eunuch <05631> [officer. or, eunuch.]
back ........... crops <07725 08393> [Restore all.]
2 Kings 12:21
<03108> [Jozachar.]
This person is called Zabad in Chronicles, and Shimeath his mother is said to be an Ammonitess; and Jehozabad is said to be the son, not of Shomer, but of Shimrith, a Moabitess. Who the fathers of these two persons were we know not; they were probably foreigners and aliens. Some suppose that they belonged to the king's chamber, and therefore could have easy access to him.
[Zabad. Shomer.]
[Shimrith. Amaziah his son.]
2 Kings 13:21
<03212> [was let down. Heb. went down. touched.]
2 Kings 13:25
took back ............. taken .............. recovered <03947 07725> [A.M. 3168. B.C. 836. took again. Heb. returned and took.]
Three times.
2 Kings 14:7
defeated <05221> [A.M. 3177. B.C.827. slew.]
Salt Valley <04417 01516> [the valley of salt.]
Some suppose that the Valley of Salt was south of the Dead, or Salt Sea, towards the land of Edom; and others suppose it to be the Valley of Salt, about three or four miles south-east of Palmyra, which now supplies, in a great measure, the surrounding country with salt.
Sela <05554> [Selah. or, the rock.]
{Selah} is generally supposed to be the same as {Petra,} which in Greek signifies a rock, the celebrated capital of Arabia Petr‘a. Strabo places it three or four days' journey from Jericho, and five days' journey from the forest of palm trees on the Red Sea. Pliny places it 600 miles from Gaza, and 125 from the Persian Gulf; but Cellarius and Reland very justly consider that the numbers have been changed, and that we ought to read 125 miles from Gaza, and 600 from the Persian Gulf. Eusebius places Beerothbenejaakan 30 miles west from Petra, and Elath ten miles east; and Burckhardt discovered the ruins of this ancient city in a valley called Wady Mousa.
Joktheel <03371> [Joktheel.]
2 Kings 15:16
[Tiphzah.]
pregnant women <02030> [all the women.]
2 Kings 16:6
recovered <07725> [recovered.]
Elat ......... there ..... Elat <0359> [Elath. Heb. Eloth.]
2 Kings 17:6
king ... Assyria ........... Assyria <04428 0804> [A.M. 3283. B.C. 721. the king of Assyria.]
[foretold. carried.]
Halah <02477> [Halah.]
Medes <04074> [the Medes.]
2 Kings 17:23
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
warned <01696> [as he had said.]
Israel ................ Israel <03478> [So was Israel.]
2 Kings 17:41
nations <01471> [these nations.]
day <03117> [unto this day.]
2 Kings 18:12
obey ............... pay attention <08085 06963> [they obeyed not.]
Moses <04872> [Moses.]
2 Kings 19:37
Nisroch <05268> [Nisroch.]
struck ... down ............. son <01121 05221> [his sons smote.]
land <0776> [the land.]
Armenia or Ararat is a province of Asia, comprising the modern Turcomania and part of Persia; having Georgia on the north, Curdistan, or the ancient Assyria on the south, and Asia Minor, now Natolia, on the west.
Ararat <0780> [Armenia. Heb. Ararat.]
Esarhaddon <0634> [Esar-haddon.]
2 Kings 21:11
Manasseh <04519> [Because.]
Amorites <0567> [above all.]
Judah .................. Judah <03063> [made Judah.]
2 Kings 23:30
servants <05650> [servants.]
people <05971> [the people.]
2 Kings 24:7
king .............. king .......... king <04428> [the king.]
Brook <05158> [from the river.]
