Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 8:23
Are they not written in the book of the chronicles - Several remarkable particulars relative to Joram may be found in 2 Chron. 21. read more
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Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 8:26
Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign - In 2 Chronicles 22:2 , it is said, forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; this is a heavy difficulty, to remove which several expedients have been used. It is most evident that, if we follow the reading in Chronicles, it makes the son two years older than his own father! for his father began to reign when he was thirty-two years old, and reigned eight years, and so died, being forty... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 8:28
The Syrians wounded Joram - Ahaziah went with Joram to endeavor to wrest Ramoth-gilead out of the hands of the Syrians, which belonged to Israel and Judah. Ahab had endeavored to do this before, and was slain there; see 1 Kings 22:3 ; (note), etc., and the notes there. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 8:29
Went back to be healed in Jezreel - And there he continued till Jehu conspired against and slew him there. And thus the blood of the innocents, which had been shed by Ahab and his wife Jezebel, was visited on them in the total extinction of their family. See the following chapters, where the bloody tale of Jehu's conspiracy is told at large. I Have already had to remark on the chronological difficulties which occur in the historical books; difficulties for which copyists alone... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 8:1
Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life. There is no "then" in the original, of which the simplest rendering would be, "And Elisha spake unto the woman," etc. The true sense is, perhaps, best brought out by the Revised Version, which gives the following: Now Elisha had spoken unto the woman , etc. The reference is to a time long anterior to the siege of Samaria. Saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 8:1-6
The sequel of the story of the Shunammite. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 8:1-6
All things work together for good to them that love God. The piety of the Shunammite had been sufficiently shown in the previous record left us of her ( 2 Kings 4:8-37 ). The sequel of her story indicates how, in a wonderful way, events and circumstances seemingly fortuitous and unconnected work together for the advantage and happiness of one who lives virtuously, and seeks in all things to serve God and advance the cause of religion. "The series of incidents," it has been well said,... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 8:1-6
The Shunammite's land restored. The Bible has a good deal to say about the land question. There is one memorable passage in Isaiah (v. 8): "Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth l" There is another memorable passage in the Epistle of St, James: "Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 8:1-6
Topics for reflection. "Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life," etc. In these verses we have an illustration of the reward of kindness, the ignorance of royalty, and the influence of godliness. I. THE REWARD OF KINDNESS . "Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the Lord hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 8:21
Joram went over to Zair - This is the same as Seir, a chief city of Idumea. So Isaiah 21:11 ; : The burden of Dumah (Idumea). He calleth to me out of Seir. Smote the Edomites - It appears that the Israelites were surrounded by the Idumeans; and that in the night Joram and his men cut their way through them, and so got every man to his tent, for they were not able to make any farther head against these enemies; and therefore it is said, that Edom revolted from under the hand... read more