2 Kings 6:1
<01121> [the sons.]
place <04725> [the place.]
cramped <06862> [too strait for us.]
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 6:9-10
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.]
2 Kings 18:25
marched up ............ March up <05927> [Am I now.]
