2 Kings 3:27
offered ... up .... burnt sacrifice <05927 05930> [offered him.]
In cases of great extremity, it was customary in various heathen nations, to offer human sacrifices, and even their own children. This was frequent among the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Scythians, Gauls, Africans, and others; and was the natural fruit of a religious system, which had for the objects of its worship cruel and merciless divinities. The king of Moab, in this case, sacrificed his son to obtain the favour of Chemosh his god, who, being a devil, delighted in blood and murder, and the destruction of mankind. The dearer any thing was to them, the more acceptable those idolaters thought the sacrifice, and therefore burnt their children in the fire to their honour.
broke off <05265> [they departed.]
2 Kings 4:8
day <03117> [it fell on. Heb. there was.]
Shunem <07766> [Shunem.]
This city was situated in the tribe of Issachar, five miles south from mount Tabor, according to Eusebius; and is probably the place which he calls Sanim, in Acrabatene, in the neighbourhood of Samaria or Sebaste.
prominent woman <0802 01419> [a great woman.]
insisted ....... meal ............... meal <02388 0398> [she constrained him. Heb. she laid hold on him.]
2 Kings 5:1
Naaman <05283> [A.M. 3110. B.C. 894. Naaman.]
esteemed <01419> [a great.]
esteemed ... respected <06440> [with. Heb. before. honourable. or, gracious. Heb. lifted up, or accepted in countenance. by him.]
victories <08668> [deliverance. or, victory. a leper.]
2 Kings 5:13
servants <05650> [his servants.]
master <01> [My father.]
<0637> [how much rather.]
Wash <07364> [Wash.]
2 Kings 7:6
Lord <0136> [the Lord.]
king ....... kings .... Hittites <02850 04428> [the kings of the Hittites.]
king ....... kings ...... Egypt <04714 04428> [the kings of the Egyptians.]
2 Kings 8:13
dog <03611> [a dog.]
accomplish <06213> [he should do.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
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 17:21
tore <07167> [For he rent.]
Jeroboam ........ Jeroboam <03379> [they made.]
Jeroboam ........ Jeroboam <05080 03379> [Jeroboam drave.]
sin <01419 02401> [a great sin.]
2 Kings 17:36
military ability <05186> [a stretched.]
<03372> [him shall ye fear.]
2 Kings 18:19
chief adviser <07262> [Rab-shakeh.]
He was the chief speaker, being a very eloquent man, and, according to the Hebrews, whom Procopius follows, an apostate Jew; which is not improbable, as he spoke Hebrew so fluently; and when he blasphemed the Divine Majesty, the king and nobles rent their clothes, which was usual unless the blasphemer were an Israelite.
said .... Tell <0559> [Thus saith.]
confidence <0986> [What confidence.]
2 Kings 22:8
found <04672> [I have found.]
This certainly was a genuine copy of the divine law, and probably the autograph of Moses, as it is said, in the parallel place of Chronicles, to be the book of the law of the Lord by Moses. It is not probable that this was the only copy of the law in the land, or that Josiah had never before seen the book of Moses; but the fact seems to be, that this was the original of the covenant renewed by Moses in the plains of Moab, and now being unexpectedly found, its antiquity, the occasion of its being made, the present circumstances of the people, the imperfect state in which the reformation was as yet, after all that had been done, would all concur to produce the effect here mentioned on the mind of the pious Josiah.
2 Kings 23:2
youngest .... oldest <06996 01419> [both small and great. Heb. from small even unto great.]
read <07121> [he read.]
scroll <05612> [the book.]
