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Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - 2 Kings 7:1-8

2 Kings ‘IMPOSSIBLE,-ONLY I SAW IT’ 2Ki_7:1 - 2Ki_7:16 . The keynote of this incident lies in the promise in the first verse. The whole story illustrates man’s too frequent rejection of God’s promise, and God’s wonderful way of fulfilling it. I. We note first the promise which common-sense finds incredible. It came from Elisha when all seemed desperate. The wonderfully vivid narrative in the previous chapter tells a pitiful tale of women boiling their children, of unclean food worth more... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Kings 7:1-11

“Windows in Heaven” 2 Kings 7:1-11 There is a sore famine just now over the whole world-a famine of God’s Word. For some years the Church has felt its growing severity, but there are two classes within her borders: they who believe that God can open the windows of heaven, and pour down such a blessing that there will not be room to receive it, Malachi 3:10 ; and those who, like the unbelieving courtier, jeer at the hope of the saints. Let us answer the skeptic’s “ Can God? ” by the positive... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 7:1-20

Under these circumstances of famine and the anger of the king the calmness and strength of the prophet were again manifest. It is another revelation of how quiet and strong a man becomes who is in secret fellowship with God. Elisha knew that deliverance was coming, and foretold the end of the siege and the provision of ample food for the needy. All he said was intended to emphasize the importance of faith in God, and in this case we see how in loyalty to this desire he foretold mercy and yet... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 7:1-20

Relief Of The Siege Of Samaria (2 Kings 6:24 to 2 Kings 7:20 ). The incident that follows appears here because it is a part of the Elisha narrative, in which the wonders wrought by YHWH for Elisha are described, not because it is in its chronological position. For it probably occurred in the time of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, and thus a considerable time after the previously mentioned incident, and after much of the history that follows in chapter 8-9. The ministry of Elisha covered a period... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 7:2-20

YHWH’s Deliverance From The Siege Of Samaria (2 Kings 7:2-20 ). This second subsection is within an inclusio which commences with the captain’s comment about the ‘windows of Heaven’, followed by the warning of his demise (2 Kings 7:2), and closes with a repetition of the same comment and a description of his actual death (2 Kings 7:19-20). It is also connected with the first subsection as the thought of the closing verse of the first subsection (2 Kings 7:1) is paralleled at the end of the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 7:1-20

2 Kings 6:24 to 2 Kings 7:20 . The Siege of Samaria.— The date and source of this episode need discussion. The name of the king of Syria, as in 1 Kings 20, was Ben-hadad; the king of Israel is not named at all. Two Benhadads are possible, the king in 1 Kings 20 who was defeated by Ahab, and the son and successor of Hazael ( 2 Kings 13:24). If the first is meant, then Jehoram was king of Israel; if not, Jehoash, the grandson of Jehu. Elisha was called in the days of Ahab, and lived under Ahab... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 7:6

To hear a noise; either in the air; or rather, in their ears; otherwise the Samaritans had heard it. The Hittites under which name (as elsewhere under the name of the Amorites) he seems to understand all or any of the people of Canaan. For though the greatest number of that people were destroyed, yet very many of them were spared, and many of them upon Joshua’s coming fled away, some to more remote parts, (which that famous and ancient inscription upon a pillar in Africa testifies,) and others... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Kings 7:1-20

THE FLIGHT OF THE SYRIANSCRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—2 Kings 7:1. A measure of fine flour—This seah would probably contain about three gallons of flour. In the gate of Samaria—i.e., the market. Agricultural and garden produce from the country were brought to the gates of cities for sale. 2 Kings 7:2. Then a lord, on whose hand the king, &c.—This שָלִישׁ may be described as a knight or chariot-warrior; the plural word is rendered in 1 Kings 9:20, “rulers of his chariot” (see Note in... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 7:1-20

Chapter 7And Elisha said, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, Tomorrow about this time they will be selling a bushel of fine flour for sixty-five cents, and two bushels of fine of barley for sixty-five cents, right in the gate of Samaria. Now [the prime minister,] the guy upon whom the king leaned, said to the prophet of God, if God would open up windows in heaven, could such a thing be? ( 2 Kings 7:1-2 )Now it is interesting that so often we try to figure out how God can do His... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 7:1-20

2 Kings 7:3 . Four leprous men. This is frequently called by the rabbins the Egyptian disease, and the law required that they should dwell alone. 2 Kings 7:6 . The kings of the Hittites. Those of Philistia, Tyre, and the Isles, as well as the Egyptians. The greatest victories which God has accorded to his church, have been effected without carnal weapons. Prayer in extremities is more efficacious than the sword. The Lord showed his righteousness in the sight of the heathen. 2 Kings 7:19... read more