2 Kings 9:8
cut off <03772> [I will cut off.]
male <08366> [him that pisseth.]
weak <06113> [him that is shut up.]
2 Kings 9:33
Throw ... down .... threw ... down <08058> [Throw her down.]
horses <05483> [and on the horses.]
This terrible mode of punishment appears to have been but rarely used, though we occasionally meet with it during this and subsequent periods. The same punishment, it is well known, obtained among the Romans, who used to throw certain malefactors from the Tarpeian rock. This practice obtains among the Moors at Constantia, a town of Barbary; and is also of frequent occurrence in Persia.
when ..... ground <07429> [and he trode.]
2 Kings 20:2
turned <05437> [he turned.]
2 Kings 4:10
make ........ furnish <06213 07760> [Let us.]
small ... upper room <06996 05944> [a little chamber.]
An {ƒleeyah,} or {ole„h,} as the Arabs call it; a small back house annexed to the principal dwelling, in which the prophet could live in a great privacy as in his own house, and to which he could retire at pleasure, without breaking in upon the private affairs of the family, or being in his turn interrupted by them in his devotions. See the notes on Jud 3:20.
