2 Kings 3:21
mustered <06817> [gathered. Heb. were cried together. put on armour. Heb. gird himself with a girdle.]
2 Kings 4:42
Baal Shalisha <01190> [Baal-shalisha.]
food ...... loaves of bread <03899> [bread.]
barley <08184> [of barley.]
said <06861 0559> [the husk thereof. or, his scrip, or garment.]
Note: Parched corn, or corn to be parched; full ears before they are ripe, parched on the fire: a very frequent food in the East. The loaves were probably extremely small, as their loaves of bread still are in eastern countries. But small as this may appear, it would be a considerable present in the time of famine; though very inadequate to the number of persons. Baal-shalisha, of which the person who made this seasonable present was an inhabitant, was situated, according to Eusebius and Jerome, fifteen miles north of Diospolis, or Lydda.
2 Kings 6:6
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.
2 Kings 6:28
answered .... said <0559> [What aileth thee.]
Hand .... son .......... son <01121 05414> [Give thy son.]
2 Kings 7:18
prophet <0376> [as the man.]
2 Kings 12:10
royal <04428> [the king's.]
secretary <05608> [scribe. or, secretary. put up. Heb. bound up.]
bagged <06696> [in bags.]
Sir J. Chardin informs us, "it is a custom of Persia always to seal up bags of money; and the money of the king's treasure is not told, but is received by bags sealed up." These are what are called in the East purses; each of which, as Maillet informs us, contains money to the amount of 1,500 livres, or about 63Å“. of our money. The money thus collected for the reparation of the temple, seems, in like manner, to have been reckoned in bags of equal value to each other; as we can scarcely imagine the placing it in bags would otherwise have been mentioned. The value of a Jewish purse is unknown; but the bags mentioned in ch. 5:23, amounted to a talent.
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 20:19
appropriate .......... peace <02896 07965> [Good.]
[It is not good, etc. or, Shall there not be peace and truth, etc. peace and truth.]
2 Kings 21:12
bring <0935> [I am bringing.]
hear <08085> [whosoever.]
2 Kings 22:17
[have foresaken.]
idols <04639> [the works.]
anger <02534> [therefore.]
extinguished <03518> [shall not be.]
2 Kings 24:20
anger <0639> [through.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
