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 8:24
passed away <07901> [slept.]
Ahaziah <0274> [Ahaziah.]
[Jehoahaz.]
[Azariah.]
2 Kings 9:13
Each ..... took <03947 0376> [and took every.]
The spreading of garments in the street, before persons to whom it was intended to shew particular honour, was an ancient and very general custom; the garments in these cases being used for carpets. In the Agamemnon of ’schylus, the hypocritical Clytemnestra commands the maids to spread carpets before her returning husband, that on his descending from his chariot he may place his foot on "a purple-covered path." We also find this custom among the Romans. Plutarch relates, that when Cato of Utica left the Macedonian army, where he had become legionary tribune, the soldiers spread their clothes in the way.
feet <01634> [on the top.]
The ancient fortified cities were generally strengthened with a citadel, (Jud 9:46, 51,) commonly built on an eminence, to which they ascended by a flight of stairs, (Ne 3:15.) It is extremely probable, therefore, that Ramoth-gilead, being a frontier town of Israel and Syria, had a tower of this nature; and that Jehu was proclaimed king on the top of the stairs by which they ascended the hill on which the tower stood, i.e., in the area before the door of the tower, and consequently the most public place in the city.
trumpet ... blown <07782 08628> [blew with trumpets.]
king <04427> [is king. Heb. reigneth.]
2 Kings 14:16
Jehoash <03060> [A.M. 3179. B.C. 825. Jehoash.]
buried <06912> [was buried.]
Jeroboam <03379> [Jeroboam.]
2 Kings 15:7
[A.M. 3246. B.C. 758.]
[Uzziah.]
2 Kings 15:14
Tirzah <08656> [Tirzah.]
attacked <05221> [and smote.]
2 Kings 15:30
conspired against <07194> [A.M. 3265. B.C. 739. made.]
assassinated <05221> [and smote.]
king <04427> [reigned.]
"After an anarchy for some years."
twentieth <06242> [in the twentieth.]
"In the fourth year of Ahaz, in the twentieth year after Jotham had begun to reign."--Usher.
2 Kings 15:38
Jotham <03147> [Jotham.]
Ahaz <0271> [Ahaz.]
[Achaz.]
2 Kings 16:20
buried <06912> [A.M. 3278. B.C. 726. buried.]
Hezekiah <02396> [Hezekiah.]
[Ezekias.]
2 Kings 21:18
buried <06912> [A.M. 3361. B.C. 643. and was buried.]
2 Kings 21:24
people .... land executed ........... they <0776 05221 05971> [the people of the land slew.]
Josiah <02977> [made Josiah.]
