2 Kings 2:8
cloak <0155> [his mantle.]
[Ten meloten autou,] his sheep skin, says the Septuagint; the skins of sheep being formerly worn by prophets as the simple insignia of their office: see Note on ch. 1:8.
divided <02673> [were.]
2 Kings 2:10
request <07592> [Thou hast.]
difficult request <07185 07592> [asked a hard thing. Heb. done hard in asking. if thou see.]
2 Kings 4:41
threw <07993> [he cast.]
anything <01697> [there.]
anything <01697> [harm. Heb. evil thing.]
2 Kings 6:2
Each ..... get .... from <03947 0376> [and take thence.]
2 Kings 8:15
next day <04283> [And it came.]
next day <04283> [on the morrow.]
took ... piece of cloth <03947 04346> [that he took a thick cloth.]
There is a considerable degree of ambiguity in this passage. The pronoun he is generally referred to Hazael; but Dr. Geddes and others are decidedly of the opinion, that we should understand by it Ben-hadad; who, encouraged by the favourable answer of Elisha, as reported by Hazael, adopted a violent remedy to allay the heat of his fever, and put over his face the {keever,} or fly-net, (See Note on 1 Sa 19:13,) dipped in water, which suddenly checked the perspiration, and occasioned his death.
died <04191> [so that he died.]
Hazael <02371> [Hazael.]
2 Kings 9:1
member <0259> [one.]
The Jews say that this was Jonah, the prophet, the son of Amittai.
member <01121> [the children.]
[See on]
Tuck ...... belt <04975 02296> [Gird up thy loins.]
As the upper garments of the Orientals were long and flowing, it was indispensably necessary to tuck up the skirts with a girdle about their loins, in order to use any expedition in their work or on a journey.
container ... olive oil <08081 06378> [box of oil.]
Ramoth <07433> [Ramoth-gilead.]
2 Kings 9:13
Each ..... took <03947 0376> [and took every.]
The spreading of garments in the street, before persons to whom it was intended to shew particular honour, was an ancient and very general custom; the garments in these cases being used for carpets. In the Agamemnon of ’schylus, the hypocritical Clytemnestra commands the maids to spread carpets before her returning husband, that on his descending from his chariot he may place his foot on "a purple-covered path." We also find this custom among the Romans. Plutarch relates, that when Cato of Utica left the Macedonian army, where he had become legionary tribune, the soldiers spread their clothes in the way.
feet <01634> [on the top.]
The ancient fortified cities were generally strengthened with a citadel, (Jud 9:46, 51,) commonly built on an eminence, to which they ascended by a flight of stairs, (Ne 3:15.) It is extremely probable, therefore, that Ramoth-gilead, being a frontier town of Israel and Syria, had a tower of this nature; and that Jehu was proclaimed king on the top of the stairs by which they ascended the hill on which the tower stood, i.e., in the area before the door of the tower, and consequently the most public place in the city.
trumpet ... blown <07782 08628> [blew with trumpets.]
king <04427> [is king. Heb. reigneth.]
2 Kings 10:7
executed ... seventy ... them They <07657 07819> [slew seventy.]
2 Kings 12:5
priests <03548> [Let the priests.]
repair <02388> [let them repair.]
2 Kings 12:8
2 Kings 14:21
Azariah <05838> [Azariah.]
[Uzziah.]
[Ozias. made him king.]
2 Kings 16:8
silver <03701> [the silver.]
royal .......... king <04428> [to the king.]
2 Kings 19:14
Hezekiah ............ Hezekiah <02396> [Hezekiah.]
spread .... before <06566 06440> [spread it.]
2 Kings 25:14-15
pots <05518> [the pots.]
golden <02091> [and such things.]
2 Kings 25:18
captain <07227> [captain.]
Seraiah <08304> [Seraiah.]
Zephaniah <06846> [Zephaniah.]
priest ..... priest .... second <03548 04932> [the second priest.]
Called by the Jews, {sagan,} who officiated for the high priest in case of any temporary incapacity.
doorkeepers <05592> [door. Heb. threshold.]
