2 Kings 6:1
<01121> [the sons.]
place <04725> [the place.]
cramped <06862> [too strait for us.]
2 Kings 25:26
2 Kings 4:10
make ........ furnish <06213 07760> [Let us.]
small ... upper room <06996 05944> [a little chamber.]
An {ƒleeyah,} or {ole„h,} as the Arabs call it; a small back house annexed to the principal dwelling, in which the prophet could live in a great privacy as in his own house, and to which he could retire at pleasure, without breaking in upon the private affairs of the family, or being in his turn interrupted by them in his devotions. See the notes on Jud 3:20.
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.]
2 Kings 10:18
Ahab worshiped Baal ...... worship <05647 01168 0256> [Ahab served Baal.]
Jehu ............... Jehu <03058> [Jehu.]
2 Kings 2:23
Bethel <01008> [Beth-el.]
young boys <06996 05288> [little children.]
The words {n‰ƒrim ketannim} not only signify little children but young men; for {katon} signifies not only little, but young, in opposition to old; and {n„ƒr} signifies not only a child, but a young man grown to years of maturity: thus Isaac is called {n„ƒr} when twenty-eight years old, Joseph when thirty-nine, and Rehoboam when forty. These idolatrous young men, having heard of the ascension of Elijah, without believing it, blasphemously bade Elisha to follow him. The venerable prophet, from a Divine impulse, pronounced a curse "in the name of the Lord," which was immediately followed by the most terrible judgment; thus evincing the Source from which it flowed.
made fun <07046> [mocked.]
went up ......... traveling up .................. Go on up ... Go on up <05927> [Go up.]
2 Kings 19:26
powerless <03027 07116> [of small power. Heb. short of hand.]
terrified ......... plants <02865 06212> [they were.]
plants ............. grass <06212 02682> [the grass.]
2 Kings 3:18
easy <07043> [And this.]
easy <07043> [a light.]
will ... hand <05414> [he will.]
2 Kings 4:2
do <06213> [What shall I.]
jar ... olive oil <0610 08081> [save a pot of oil.]
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 23:6
Asherah pole <0842> [the grove.]
Or rather, Asherah, or Astarte.
burned <08313> [and burned.]
graveyard <06913> [the graves.]
public <01121> [the children.]
Probably the common people.
2 Kings 4:39
field ......... wild vine ....... fruit <07704 01612> [a wild vine.]
field ......... wild ........ fruit <06498 07704> [wild gourds.]
The word {pakk“th,} from {peka,} in Chaldee, to burst, and in Syriac, to crack, thunder, is generally supposed to be the fruits of the coloquintida, or colocynth; whose leaves are large, placed alternately, very much like those of the vine, whence it might be called a wild vine: the flowers are white, and the fruit of the gourd kind, of the size of a large apple, and when ripe, of a yellow colour, and a pleasant and inviting appearance. It ranks among vegetable poisons, as all intense bitters do; but, judiciously employed, it is of considerable use in medicine. It is said that the fruit, when ripe, is so full of wind that it bursts, and throws its liquor and seeds to a great distance: and if touched, before it breaks of itself, it flies open with an explosion, and discharges its foetid contents in the face of him who touched it.
2 Kings 23:15
altar <04196> [the altar.]
crushed <01854> [stamped.]
