2 Reis 6:8-7:20 NVT

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - 2 Kings 6:8-18

2 Kings SIGHT AND BLINDNESS 2Ki_6:8 - 2Ki_6:18 . The revelation of the angel guard around Elisha is the important part of this incident, but the preliminaries to it may yield some instruction. The first point to be noted is the friendly relations between the king and the prophet. The king was probably Joram, who had given up Baal worship, though still retaining the calves at Bethel and Dan 2Ki_3:2. The whole tone of things is changed from the stormy days of Elijah. The prophet is frequently... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Kings 6:1-13

the Servant of the Lord of Battles 2 Kings 6:1-13 To us, the first of these miracles may appear somewhat trivial, but we must remember the value of an iron axe-head at that time, the inconvenience and delay caused to the builders, and the slur accruing to religion if it were irreparably lost. The story shows how keen was the sympathy of the great prophet for a poor man overtaken by an ordinary trouble, and how ready Elisha was to seek the help of God to redress the mischief. See John 2:1-14... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 6:1-33

The incident of the swimming of the iron axe head is interesting, but quite secondary. The chief value of the story lies in its revelation of the influence Elisha was exerting in the nation. The growth of the school of the prophets was most remarkable. It was necessary that they should enlarge their borders, as they had not room to dwell. Their relation to Elisha is clearly manifest. In an hour of national peril he rose above the gentler works which were chiefly characteristic of his... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 6:1-33

SECTION 8. The Wonder-working Ministry Of Elisha (2 Kings 4:1 to 2 Kings 8:15 ) It will be noted that from this point on, until 2 Kings 8:15, no king of Israel is mentioned by name, even though, for example, Naaman’s name is given in chapter 5, and Ben-hadad, the king of Aram, is mentioned in 2 Kings 6:24; 2 Kings 8:7. (The reign of Jehoram then recommences in 2 Kings 8:16). It is clear that the prophetic author was concerned at this point that our attention should be taken away from the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 6:8-23

Israel’s One Man Intelligence Service And The Failed Attempt To Abduct Him (2 Kings 6:8-23 ). The king of Aram was puzzled because he kept raiding Israel only to discover each time that the king of Israel appeared to have advanced information, and thus had troops ready to forestall him. He could only assume that it was because he was being betrayed. But his servants, presumably obtaining their knowledge through their intelligence service, explained to him that it was because there was a... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 6:1-33

2 Kings 6:1-Isaiah : . An Axehead Swims. Elisha and the Syrians at Dothan.— In several minor miracles Elisha is always represented as working them not by his word, but by some expedient. Thus he heals the miscarrying waters by salt, and the pot by meal, and recovers the axehead by casting a stick into the water.The prophet appears in the second narrative as the moving spirit in the Syrian war. Whenever the king of Syria devised an ambush ( 2 Kings 6:8, with a slight alteration of reading),... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 6:8

Thither I will send my forces, to surprise some place; or to lie in ambush where the king or his people were to pass, 2 Kings 6:9. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Kings 6:8-17

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—2 Kings 6:12. Elisha … telleth … the words thou speakest in thy bedchamber—Elisha apprised king Jehoram of the designs of the Syrian king, who thereby was enabled to anticipate and defeat his guerilla attacks. 2 Kings 6:13. Behold he is in Dothan—In a narrow pass through mountains, on the caravan road from Gilead to Egypt, twelve miles north of Samaria, in the Esdraelon plain. 2 Kings 6:17. The mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire—For in this case,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 6:1-33

Now Naaman was the captain of the host of Syria, he was a great man with his master, he was honorable, because the LORD had actually helped him to subdue many nations. He was a mighty man and very brave, but he was a leper. And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and brought away captives out of the land of Israel and a little maid happened to be the servant of his wife. And she said, It's too bad your husband isn't with the prophet there in Israel, because he could heal him of his leprosy.... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 6:1-33

2 Kings 6:1 . Sons of the prophets. See on 2 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 2:5. Their number had evidently encreased, though in evil times. Their college was a plain home-built house. 2 Kings 6:5 . Borrowed. שׂאל , this root, as in Exodus 11:0., will not bear any other sense than to borrow or to ask. The loss of an axe was almost irreparable, where steel forges were scarce and distant. The recovery of this axe by a miracle was a special mark of the divine favour, towards the new enlargement of the... read more