2 Kings 6:18-33
Strike ... people ...... struck <05221 01471> [Smite this people.]
Confound their sight, so that they may not know what they see; and so mistake one place for another. The word {sanverim,} rendered blindness, occurs only here and in Ge 19:11, on which see the Note.
<03212> [follow me. Heb. come ye after me.]
<03212> [I will bring.]
open ... eyes .... can ..... opened ... eyes <06491 05869> [open the eyes.]
open .......... opened <06491> [opened.]
master <01> [My father.]
This was dastardly: the utmost he ought to have done with these men, when thus brought into his hand, was to make them prisoners of war.
strike ... down <05221> [shall.]
strike ..................... strike <05221> [wouldest.]
sword <02719> [thy sword.]
Give .... food <07760 03899> [set bread.]
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.
assembled <06908> [gathered.]
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.
Help .... master <03467 0113> [Help, my lord.]
Lord <03068> [If the Lord, etc. or, Let not the Lord save thee. whence.]
answered .... said <0559> [What aileth thee.]
Hand .... son .......... son <01121 05414> [Give thy son.]
next <0312> [next. Heb. other. she hath hid.]
tore ... clothes <0899 07167> [he rent his clothes.]
May God <0430 06213> [God do so.]
head <07218> [if the head.]
leaders ................. leaders <02205> [the elders.]
messenger ........................... messenger <04397> [ere the messenger.]
realize ... assassin ........ Look <07200 01121> [See ye how.]
assassin <07523 01121> [son of a murderer.]
<06963> [the sound.]
Lord ...... disaster .......... Lord <03068 07451> [this evil is of the Lord.]
Lord ............ wait .... Lord <03176 03068> [wait for the.]
