2 Kings 8:15
next day <04283> [And it came.]
next day <04283> [on the morrow.]
took ... piece of cloth <03947 04346> [that he took a thick cloth.]
There is a considerable degree of ambiguity in this passage. The pronoun he is generally referred to Hazael; but Dr. Geddes and others are decidedly of the opinion, that we should understand by it Ben-hadad; who, encouraged by the favourable answer of Elisha, as reported by Hazael, adopted a violent remedy to allay the heat of his fever, and put over his face the {keever,} or fly-net, (See Note on 1 Sa 19:13,) dipped in water, which suddenly checked the perspiration, and occasioned his death.
died <04191> [so that he died.]
Hazael <02371> [Hazael.]
2 Kings 13:14
terminal <02470> [A.M. 3166. B.C. 838. fallen sick.]
<04191> [he died.]
father ... father <01> [O my father.]
2 Kings 15:20
Menahem <04505> [Menahem.]
got <03318> [exacted. Heb. caused to come forth. the mighty.]
each one <0259 0376> [of each man, etc.]
Or, rather, as Bishop Patrick renders, "to give to the king of Assyria fifty shekels of silver for each man," i.e., in his army. It may be supposed, that Menahem compelled "the mighty men of wealth" to give much more a-piece than this sum, (somewhat about 5Å“. sterling each) and each of them in some proportion to his affluence.
stay ..... land <05975 0776> [stayed not.]
2 Kings 16:18
awning <04329> [the covert.]
There are a great number of conjectures concerning this covert; but it is probable that it was either, as Locke supposes, a sort of shelter or canopy erected for the people on the sabbath when the crowd was too great for the porch to contain them; or, as Dr. Geddes supposes, a seat, covered with a canopy, placed on an elevation, for the king and his court, when they attended public worship.
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 19:25
heard <08085> [Hast thou not, etc. or,]
Hast thou not heard how I have made it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Should I now bring it to be laid waste, and fenced cities to be ruinous heaps? I have done it.
2 Kings 19:32
enter <0935> [He shall not come.]
build siege works <05550 08210> [cast a bank.]
2 Kings 21:11-12
Manasseh <04519> [Because.]
Amorites <0567> [above all.]
Judah .................. Judah <03063> [made Judah.]
bring <0935> [I am bringing.]
hear <08085> [whosoever.]
2 Kings 22:20
allow .... die <0622> [I will gather.]
allow .... die <0622> [thou shalt.]
During thy life, none of these calamities shall fall upon thee nor thy people; no adversary shall be permitted to disturb the peace of Judea; and thou shalt at last "be gathered into thy grave in peace." Now, though it is stated that Pharaoh-Necho slew him at Megiddo, yet the Assyrians and the Jews were at peace; and though Josiah might feel it his duty to oppose the Egyptian king's going against his friend and ally, and that, in his endeavours to oppose him, he was mortally wounded at Megiddo, yet certainly he was not killed there, but was brought to Jerusalem, where he died in peace.
allow .... die <0622> [gathered.]
