2 Kings 10:18-28
Ahab worshiped Baal ...... worship <05647 01168 0256> [Ahab served Baal.]
Jehu ............... Jehu <03058> [Jehu.]
prophets <05030> [all the prophets.]
servants ........................................ servants <05647> [all his servants.]
priests <03548> [all his priests.]
Jehu <03058> [But Jehu.]
arrangements <06942> [Proclaim. Heb. Sanctify.]
invitations .......... came ....... arrived <0935> [And they came.]
Baal ........... temple ... Baal <01168 01004> [the house of Baal.]
filled <06310 04390> [full from one end to another. or, so full that they stood mouth to mouth.]
robes ............ robes <03830 04403> [vestments.]
Jehonadab <03082> [Jehonadab.]
servants .................... servants <05647> [the worshippers.]
men ... He ......... men <0376 0582> [If any of the men.]
Come <0935> [Go in.]
<0376> [let.]
<06310> [edge. Heb. mouth.]
sacred pillar <04676> [images. Heb. statues.]
burned <08313> [and burned them.]
demolished ... sacred pillar <04676 05422> [brake down the image.]
used as ... latrine <04163 07760> [made it a draught house.]
This was an ancient mode of degradation, which still continues in the East; and we are informed, that Abbas the Great, king of Persia, having conquered Bagdad, treated the tomb of Hanifah, one of the fathers of the church among the Turks, in a similar manner.
2 Kings 11:18
went <0935> [went.]
smashed <07665> [brake they.]
killed Mattan <04977 02026> [slew Mattan.]
placed <07760> [appointed.]
<06485> [officers. Heb. offices.]
2 Kings 11:1
Athaliah <06271> [A.M. 3120. B.C.884. Athaliah.]
mother <0517> [the mother.]
destroy <06> [and destroyed.]
A similar history is related by Mr. Bruce, as having occurred in Abyssinia. Judith "surprised the rock Damo, and slew the whole of the princes, to the number, it is said, of about 400;" while the infant king, Del Naad, was conveyed for safety to a loyal province, and afterwards restored.
royal line <04467 02233> [seed royal. Heb. seed of the kingdom.]
2 Kings 16:1
seventeenth <07651> [seventeenth.]
Ahaz <0271> [Ahaz.]
2 Kings 22:1
Josiah <02977> [A.M. 3363-3394. B.C. 641-610. Josiah.]
This prince was one of the best, if not the best, of all the Jewish kings since the time of David. He began well, continued well, and ended well.
[Josias.]
eight years old ........... years <08141 01121 08083> [eight years old.]
Bozkath <01218> [Boscath.]
This was a city in the plain country of the tribe of Judah; and is mentioned in the parallel passage along with Lachish and Eglon.
[Bozkath.]
