2 Kings 21:10
In the following verses the doom of Judah and Jerusalem is passed, and it is a heavy doom. The prophets were sent in the first place to teach them the knowledge of God, to remind them of their duty, and direct them in it: if they succeeded not in that, their next work was to reprove them for their sins, and to set them in view before them, that they might repent and reform, and return to their duty: if in this they prevailed not, their next work was to foretell the judgments of God, that the terror of them might awaken to repentance those who would not be made sensible of the obligations of his love; or else that the execution of them, in their season, might be a demonstration of the divine mission of the prophets who foretold them. They were made judges to those who would not hear and receive them as teachers.--Henry.
2 Kings 1:7
man <0376 04941> [What manner of man was he? Heb. What was the manner of the man?]
2 Kings 25:28
kindly ..... gave <02896 05414> [kindly to him. Heb. good things with him. the throne.]
2 Kings 1:11
king <07725> [Again.]
Prophet <0376> [O man.]
2 Kings 1:15
afraid <06440 03372> [be not afraid of him.]
2 Kings 18:28
chief adviser <07262> [Rab-shakeh.]
king ... king ... Assyria <04428 0804> [the king of Assyria.]
2 Kings 1:9-10
sent ... captain <07971 08269> [sent unto.]
sitting <03427> [he sat.]
Prophet <0376> [Thou man.]
prophet <0376> [If I be a man.]
fire .............. Fire <0784> [let fire.]
Or, rather, as the original literally imports, and the LXX. render, [katabesetai pyr,] fire shall come down; Elijah's words being simply declarative, and not imprecatory.
consume ............... consumed <0398> [consumed.]
2 Kings 1:12-13
king sent <07725 07971> [he sent again.]
fell .... knees <03766 01290> [fell on. Heb. bowed.]
begged for mercy <02603> [besought.]
Prophet <0430 0376> [O man of God.]
2 Kings 1:16
sent <07971> [Forasmuch.]
Baal Zebub <01176> [Baal-zebub.]
Literally, "the lord of flies;" or, as the LXX. render, [Baal mwean theon,] Baal the fly god. See note on Ex 8:24.
[on which thou are gone up.]
In the East there is usually at the end of each chamber a little gallery, raised three or four feet above the floor, with a balustrade in front, to which they go up by a few steps: here they place their beds; an allusion to which situation is involved in this declaration of Elijah's, and frequently referred to in the Sacred Scriptures: see Ge 49:4.
