2 Kings 8:4-29
king <04428> [the king.]
As it appears not likely that the king would hold conversation with a leprous man; or, that, knowing Gehazi had been dismissed with the highest disgrace from the prophet's service, he would talk with him concerning his late master; some have supposed that this happened before the cleansing of Naaman. But it agrees better with the chronology to consider it as having taken place after that event; the king, probably, having an insatiable curiosity to know the private history of a man who had done such astonishing things. As to the circumstances of Gehazi's disease, he might overlook that, and converse with him, keeping at a reasonable distance, as nothing but actual contact could defile.
Gehazi <01522> [Gehazi.]
Tell <05608> [Tell.]
great <01419> [all the great.]
Elisha ........ life ........................................... life <02421> [he had restored.]
woman .............................. woman <0802> [behold, the woman.]
master <0113> [My lord.]
eunuch <05631> [officer. or, eunuch.]
back ........... crops <07725 08393> [Restore all.]
Damascus <01834> [Damascus.]
Ben Hadad <01130> [Ben-hadad.]
prophet <0376 0430> [The man of God.]
[See on]
traveled <0935> [is come.]
Hazael <02371> [Hazael.]
Take <03947> [Take.]
oracle <01875> [enquire.]
Hazael <02371> [Hazael.]
<03027> [with him. Heb. in his hand.]
son ... Ben Hadad <01121 01130> [Thy son Ben-hadad.]
surely recover <02421> [Thou mayest.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
surely die <04191> [he shall surely die.]
Hazael <07760> [stedfastly. Heb. and set it. wept.]
master <0113> [my Lord.]
trouble <07451> [the evil.]
bits <07376> [dash.]
dog <03611> [a dog.]
accomplish <06213> [he should do.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
asked ...... tell .... replied ... told .... would surely recover <0559 02421> [He told me.]
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.]
Jehoram <03088> [A.M. 3112. B.C. 892. Jehoram.]
became king over <04427> [began to reign. Heb. reigned.]
"Began to reign in concert with his father."
[A.M. 3112-3119. B.C. 892-885.]
footsteps <01870> [in the way.]
dynasty <01004> [the house.]
daughter <01323> [the daughter.]
married <0802> [his wife.]
David <01732> [for David.]
dynasty <05216> [light. Heb. candle, or lamp.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
set up .... king <04428 04427> [made a king.]
Zair <06811> [Zair.]
Zair is supposed by Calmet and others to be the same as Se‹r, the country of Seir the Horite, inhabited by the Edomites or Idumeans. Probably the former was a dialectical pronunciation of the latter.
Edom <0123> [Yet.]
"And so fulfilled. Ge 27:40."
Libnah <03841> [Libnah.]
passed away <07901> [slept.]
Ahaziah <0274> [Ahaziah.]
[Jehoahaz.]
[Azariah.]
[A.M. 3119-3120. B.C. 885-884.]
twenty-two <08147 06242> [Two and twenty.]
In the parallel passage of Chronicles, it is said, "forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign;" but this is evidently a mistake, as it makes the son two years older than his own father! For his father began to reign when he was thirty-two years old, and reigned eight years, and so died, being forty years old. See ver. 17, and the Note on 2 Ch 22:2.
years ........... one year <0259 08141> [one year.]
Athaliah <06271> [Athaliah.]
granddaughter <01323> [daughter. or, grand-daughter.]
<03212> [he walked.]
related <02860> [the son in law.]
<03212> [A.M. 3120. B.C. 884. he went.]
Hazael <02371> [Hazael.]
Ramoth <07433> [Ramoth-gilead.]
Joram .................................... Joram <03141> [Joram.]
received .... Syrians <0761 05221> [which the Syrians had given. Heb. wherewith the Syrians had wounded. Ramah.]
"Called Ramoth, ver. 28."
Ahaziah <0274> [Ahaziah.]
ill <02470> [sick. Heb. wounded.]
