2 Kings 4:38
Elisha <0477> [Elisha.]
famine <07458> [a dearth.]
<01121> [the sons.]
visiting <03427> [were sitting.]
Put ... big pot on <08239 01419 05518> [Set on the great pot.]
2 Kings 6:23
threw <03739> [he prepared.]
raiding parties <01416> [So the bands.]
That is, for a considerable time. What is mentioned in the next verse was more than a year afterwards. See on ver.
2 Kings 6:25
food supply ran out <07458 01419> [a great famine.]
donkey's head <07218 02543> [an ass's head.]
If the pieces of silver were {drachms,} the whole would amount to about 2Å“. 9s.; which was a great price for so mean a part of this unclean animal.
<01686> [dove's dung.]
This probably denotes, as Bochart, Scheuchzer, and others suppose, a kind of {pulse,} or {vetches,} which the Arabs still call pigeon's dung. "They never," says Dr. Shaw, (Travels, p. 140), "constitute a dish by themselves, but are strewed singly as a garnish over {cuscasowe, pillowe,} and other dishes. They are besides in the greatest repute after they are parched in pans and ovens; then assuming the name {leblebby;}" and he thinks they were so called from being pointed at one end, and acquiring an ash colour in parching.
2 Kings 8:4
king <04428> [the king.]
As it appears not likely that the king would hold conversation with a leprous man; or, that, knowing Gehazi had been dismissed with the highest disgrace from the prophet's service, he would talk with him concerning his late master; some have supposed that this happened before the cleansing of Naaman. But it agrees better with the chronology to consider it as having taken place after that event; the king, probably, having an insatiable curiosity to know the private history of a man who had done such astonishing things. As to the circumstances of Gehazi's disease, he might overlook that, and converse with him, keeping at a reasonable distance, as nothing but actual contact could defile.
Gehazi <01522> [Gehazi.]
Tell <05608> [Tell.]
great <01419> [all the great.]
2 Kings 10:11
nobles ... friends ... priests <01419 03045 03548> [and.]
friends <03045> [kinsfolks. or, acquaintance. his priests.]
left ................ left <07604> [he left.]
2 Kings 20:3
Remember <02142> [remember.]
<01980> [I have walked.]
faithfully <0571> [in truth.]
wholehearted <03824 08003> [a perfect heart.]
wept bitterly <01058 01419> [wept sore. Heb. wept with a great weeping.]
2 Kings 22:4
Hilkiah <02518> [Hilkiah.]
melt down <08552> [that he may.]
Ten years seem to have elapsed since the people began to present the accustomed offerings; yet no one had taken an account of them, nor were they applied to the purpose for which they were given.
melt down ... silver <03701 08552> [sum the silver.]
guards <08104> [the keepers.]
door <05592> [door. Heb. threshold.]
2 Kings 23:26
Lord's <03068> [Notwithstanding.]
<03708> [provocations. Heb. angers.]
2 Kings 25:9
burned down .............. including <08313> [he burnt.]
royal <04428> [the king's.]
