The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings. Farrar Frederic William

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СКАЧАТЬ Newman), 'not eager for a proselyte in Naaman, yet making the heathen fear the Name of God, and proving to them that there was a prophet in Israel'" (Stanley, Lectures, ii. 377; Newman, Sermons, viii. 415).

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Prov. iv. 14, 15.

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Prov. xvii. 14.

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On Gehazi's lips it meant no more than the incessant Wallah, "by God," of Mohammedans.

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2 Kings v. 19. Heb., kib'rath aretz, "a little way" – literally, "a space of country." (The Vatican LXX. follows another reading, εἰς Δεβραθὰ τῆς γῆς; Vulg., electo terræ tempore[?].)

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LXX., κατεπήδησεν.

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A talent of silver was worth about £400 – an enormous sum for two half-naked youths.

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2 Kings v. 24. The LXX. (εἰς τὸ σκοτεινὸν) seems to have read אֹפֵל (ophel); "darkness," a treasury or secret place, for צַֹפֶל, and so the Vulgate jam vesperi.

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2 Kings v. 26. The verse is so interpreted by some critics, especially Ewald, followed by Stanley. Margin, R.V.: "Mine heart went not from me, when" etc.

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Exod. iv. 6; Num. xii. 10.

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The later Rabbis thought that Elisha was too severe with Gehazi, and was punished with sickness because "he repelled him with both his hands" (Bava-Metsia, f. 87, 1, and Yalkut Jeremiah).

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The Hebrew word for "cut off" (qatsab) is very rare. LXX., ἀπέκνισε ξύλον; Vulg., præcidit lignum.

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It must be further borne in mind that "the iron did swim" (A.V.) is less accurate than "made the iron to swim" (R.V.). The LXX. has ἐπεπόλασε, "brought to the surface." Von Gerlach says, "He thrust the stick into the water, and raised the iron to the surface."

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Gen. xxxvii. 17, Dothain, "two wells" (?).

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Psalm xci. 4.

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Psalm xxxiv. 7.

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Psalm xci. 11.

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Zech. ix. 8.

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Isa. lxiii. 9.

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Adopting the reading of the Syriac version: "And when they [Elisha and his servant] came down to them [the Syrians]." The ordinary reading is "to him," which makes the narrative less clear.

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2 Kings vi. 19. מַנְוֵרִים, ἀορασία, only found in Gen. xix. 11.

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Deut. xx. 13.

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Num. xxxi. 7.

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Vulg., Non percuties; neque enim cepisti eos … ut percutias.

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Jos., Antt., IX. iv. 4, Κρύφα μὲν οὐκέτι … φανερῶς δέ.

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Kittel, following Kuenen, surmises that this story has got misplaced; that it does not belong to the days of Jehoram ben-Ahab and Benhadad II., but to the days of Jehoahaz ben-Jehu and Benhadad III., the son of Hazael (Gesch. der Hebr., 249). In a very uncertain question I have followed the conclusion arrived at by the majority of scholars, ancient and modern.

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So asafœtida is called "devil's dung" in Germany; and the Herba alcali, "sparrow's dung" by Arabs. The Q'ri, however, supports the literal meaning; and compare 2 Kings xviii. 27; Jos., B. J., V. xiii. 7. Analogies for these prices are quoted from classic authors. Plutarch (Artax., xxiv.) mentions a siege in which an ass's head could hardly be got for sixty drachmas (£2 10s.), though usually the whole animal only cost £1. Pliny (H. N., viii. 57) says that during Hannibal's siege of Casilinum a mouse sold for £6 5s.

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So Clericus. Comp. Jos. ἐπηράσατο αὐτῇ.

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Lev. xxvi. 29.

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Deut. xxviii. 52-58.

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Jer. xix. 9.

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Lam. iv. 10: comp. ii. 20; Ezek. v. 10; Jos., B. J., VI. iii. 4.

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1 Kings xxi. 27; Isa. xx. 2, 3.

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Compare the wrath of Pashur the priest in consequence of the denunciation of Jeremiah (Jer. xx. 2).

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1 Kings xix. 2.

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In 2 Kings vi. 33 we should read melek (king) for maleak (messenger). Jehoram repented of his hasty order.

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The Jews say Gehazi, and his three sons (Jarchi).

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Lev. xiii. 46; Num. v. 2, 3.

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The capitals of the ancient Hittites – a nation whose fame had been almost entirely obliterated till a few years ago – were Karchemish, Kadesh, Hamath, and Helbon (Aleppo).

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Lectures, ii. 345.

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Jer. xxv. 29; Ezek. xxxviii. 21.

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See the cases of Samuel (1 Sam. ix. 7), of Ahijah (1 Kings xiv. 3), and of Elisha himself (2 Kings iv. 42).

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As Jacob did in sending forward his present to Esau. Comp. Chardin, Voyages, iii. 217.

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2 Kings x. 32, xiii. 3, 22.

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Isa. xiii. 15, 16; Hos. x. 14, xiii. 16; Nah. iii. 10.

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See Josh. vi. 17, 21; 1 Sam. xv. 3; Lev. xxvii. 28, 29.

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Psalm cxxxvii. 9.

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1 Sam. xxiv. 14; 2 Sam. ix. 8.

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מַכְבֵּר. Jos., Antt., IX. iv. 6, δίκτυον διάβροχον. Aquila, Symmachus, τὸ στρῶμα. Michaelis supposed it to be the mosquito-net (κωνωπεῖον). Comp. 1 Sam. xix. 13. Ewald suggested "bath-mattress" (iii. 523). Sir G. Grove (s. v. "Elisha," Bibl. Dict., ii. 923) mentions that Abbas Pasha is said to have been murdered in the same manner. Some, however, think that the measure was taken by way of cure (Bruce, Travels, iii. 33. Klostermann, ad loc., alters the text at his pleasure).

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2 Kings viii. 15; LXX., τὸ μαχβάρ; Vulg., stragulum; lit., "woven cloth."

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The following genealogy may help to elucidate the troublesome identity of names: —

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Jotham ben-Uzziah was not the colleague of his father, but his public representative.

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The only other king of Judah whose mother's name is not mentioned (perhaps because his father Jotham had but one wife) is Ahaz.

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2 Kings xi. 18; 2 Chron. xxi. 11, xxiv. 7.

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Vulg., Seira; Arab., Sa'ir (but the historian never uses the СКАЧАТЬ