John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 6:30
And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes ,.... At the horror of the fact reported, and through grief that his people were brought into such distress through famine: and he passed by upon the wall ; returning to his palace: and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth upon his flesh ; which, in token of humiliation for averting the calamities he was under, he had put there before, and now was seen through the rending of his... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 6:24-33
This last paragraph of this chapter should, of right, have been the first of the next chapter, for it begins a new story, which is there continued and concluded. Here is, I. The siege which the king of Syria laid to Samaria and the great distress which the city was reduced to thereby. The Syrians had soon forgotten the kindnesses they had lately received in Samaria, and very ungratefully, for aught that appears without any provocation, sought the destruction of it, 2 Kgs. 6:24. There are base... read more