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.]
2 Kings 25:1
ninth <08671> [A.M. 3414. B.C. 590. in the ninth.]
This according to the computation of Archbishop Usher, was on Thursday, January 30th, A.M. 3414, which was a sabbatical year; wherein they proclaimed liberty to their servants, according to the law, but soon enthralled them again. (See Jer 34:8-10.)
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [Nebuchadnezzar.]
[Nebuchadrezzar.]
set up camp <02583> [pitched.]
2 Kings 6:4-14
cutting down trees <01504 06086> [they cut down wood.]
ax head <01270> [axe head. Heb. iron.]
Oh .... master <0162 0113> [Alas, master.]
borrowed <07592> [for it was borrowed.]
cut off <07094> [he cut down.]
This could have no natural tendency to raise the iron and cause it to swim: it was only a sign, or ceremony, which the prophet chose to employ on the occasion.
ax head <01270> [the iron.]
This was the real miracle; for the gravity of the metal must otherwise still have kept it at the bottom of the river.
Lift <07311> [Take it up.]
reached <07971> [put out.]
king <04428> [the king.]
consulted <03289> [took.]
Invade <08466> [camp. or, encamping.]
sure <08104> [Beware.]
Syria <0758> [thither the Syrians.]
sent ...... place <07971 04725> [sent to the place.]
To see if it were so. But the Vulgate renders, {misit rex Israel ad locum, et pr‘occupavit eum;} "the king of Israel sent to the place, and pre-occupied it;" which is very likely, though not expressed in the Hebrew text.
warning ....... guard <02094 08104> [warned him.]
guard <08104> [saved.]
upset <03820> [Therefore.]
helping <05046> [Will ye not.]
master <0113> [None. Heb. No. Elisha.]
telling <05046> [telleth.]
[thy bed chamber.]
find out where <0351 07200> [spy where.]
Dothan <01886> [Dothan.]
This is supposed to be the same place where Joseph was sold by his brethren; and it is placed by Eusebius 12 miles north of Samaria.
sent horses <05483 07971> [sent he thither horses.]
It is strange the Syrian monarch did not think, that he who could penetrate his secrets with respect to the Israelitish army, could inform himself of all the machinations against his own life.
good-sized <03515> [great. Heb. heavy.]
2 Kings 9:11
everything <07965> [Is all well.]
asked .......... madman ..... replied <07696 0559> [this mad fellow.]
It is probable there was something peculiar in the young prophet's manner and address, similar to the vehement actions sometimes used by the prophets when under the Divine influence, which caused the bystanders to use this contemptuous language.
Nehemiah 11:11
Seraiah <08304> [Seraiah.]
Seraiah probably had also the name of Azariah.
[Azariah.]
supervisor <05057> [the ruler.]
He had the command over all secular matters; as the high priest had over all those which were spiritual.
Jeremiah 52:24-27
captain <07227> [the captain.]
Seraiah <08304> [Seraiah.]
Zephaniah <06846> [Zephaniah.]
doorkeepers <05592> [door. Heb. threshold.]
official <0259 05631> [an eunuch.]
king's advisers <04428 06440 07200> [were near the king's person. Heb. saw the face of the king.]
official army secretary <05608 06635 08269> [principal scribe of the host. or, scribe of the captain of the host.]
king <04428> [the king.]
Riblah <07247> [Riblah.]
Judah <03063> [Thus.]
