2 Reis 6:30-33 NVT

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:24-33

Samaria besieged. I. A CITY IN DISTRESS . Once more the people of Samaria were in great straits. A besieging army was at their gates, and, most terrible of all, the horrors of famine were within their walls. They were reduced to the greatest extremities. The women were actually beginning to cook and eat their own children. Whichever way they looked, the prospect was dark. To open the gates to the Syrians meant death or captivity. And the longer they remained within their walls, the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:24-33

Subjects worth considering. "And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria," etc. These verses, brimful of the wicked and the horrible, press the following subjects on our attention. I. THE INHUMANITY OF WAR . "And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:24-33

The siege of Samaria. Unwarned by the failure of previous attempts, Benhadad was soon engaged in a new war on Israel. The fresh invasion was made the occasion of a fresh deliverance, more wonderful than any of the preceding, but not before Samaria had been reduced to the most desperate straits. I. THE HORRORS OF A SIEGE . 1. The city invested . The King of Syria advanced with his army, and struck a direct blow at the capital of the country. Samaria was the key of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:30

And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes . In horror and consternation at the terrible state of things revealed by the woman's story. And he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked. It is better to translate, with our Revisers, (Now he yeas passing by upon the wall ;) and the people looked ; or, and , as he was passing by upon the wall , the people looked . And, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh. Jehoram... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:31

Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him —i.e. "continue on him"— this day. The form of oath was a common one (comp. Ruth 1:17 ; 1 Samuel 3:17 ; 1 Samuel 25:22 ; 2 Samuel 19:13 ; 1 Kings 2:23 ; 1 Kings 19:2 , etc.). It was an imprecation of evil on one's self, if one did, or if one failed to do, a certain thing. Why Jehoram should have considered Elisha as responsible for all the horrors of the siege is not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:32

But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him. It is best to translate, Now Elisha was sitting in his house , and the elders were sitting with him , when the king sent a man from before him . Elisha had a house in Samaria, where he ordinarily resided, and from which he made his circuits. He happened to be sitting there, and the elders of the city to be sitting with him, when Jehoram sent "a man from before him," i.e. one of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:32

Princes may be resisted when they are bent upon wrong-doing. There was a time when princes were flattered, by being told that they "could do no wrong;" that "a divinity hedged them in;" that their subjects were bound to render them, under all circumstances, an absolute and unqualified obedience. But this is certainly not scriptural teaching. The higher powers are to be obeyed in their lawful commands, but not in their unlawful ones. When Pharaoh, King of Egypt, commanded the midwives to put... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:33

And while he yet talked with them — i.e; while Elisha yet talked with the elders, endeavoring probably to persuade them to stop the messenger— behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said. The narrative is very compressed and elliptical. Some suppose words to have fallen out (as וצמלךְ אצריו after אליו ); but this is unnecessary. The reader is expected to supply missing links, and to understand that all happened as Elisha had predicted and enjoined—that the messenger... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 6:30

Sackcloth - Jehoram hoped perhaps to avert Yahweh’s anger, as his father had done 1 Kings 21:29. But there was no spirit of self-humiliation, or of true pentitence in his heart 2 Kings 5:7. See the next verse. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 6:31

God do so ... - Jehoram uses almost the very words of his wicked mother, when she sought the life of Elijah (marginal reference).The head of Elisha - Beheading was not an ordinary Jewish punishment. The Law did not sanction it. But in Assyria, Babylonia, and generally through the East, it was the most conmon form of capital punishment. It is not quite clear why Elisha was to be punished. Perhaps Jehoram argued from his other miracles that he could give deliverance from the present peril, if he... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:24-33

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:24-33

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:24-33

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:30

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:31

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:32

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:32

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 6:33

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 6:30

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 6:31

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