2 Kings 8
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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 land seven years.

A.M.

2 Kings 4:18,31-35 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out …

sojourn

Genesis 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt …

Genesis 26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that …

Genesis 47:4 They said morever to Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; …

Ruth 1:1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there …

the Lord

Genesis 41:25,28,32 And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God has …

Leviticus 26:19,20,26 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven …

Deuteronomy 28:22-24,38-40 The LORD shall smite you with a consumption, and with a fever, and …

1 Kings 17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said …

1 Kings 18:2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.

Psalm 105:16 Moreover he called for a famine on the land: he broke the whole staff of bread.

Psalm 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Haggai 1:11 And I called for a drought on the land, and on the mountains, and …

Luke 21:11,22 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences…

Acts 11:28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the …

called for a famine

Jeremiah 25:29 For, see, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my …

seven years

Genesis 41:27 And the seven thin and ill favored cows that came up after them are …

2 Samuel 21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after …

2 Samuel 24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven …

Luke 4:25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days …

And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.

the king As it appears not likely that the king would hold conversation with a leprous man; or, that, knowing Gehazi had been dismissed with the highest disgrace from the prophet's service, he would talk with him concerning his late master; some have supposed that this happened before the cleansing of Naaman. But it agrees better with the chronology to consider it as having taken place after that event; the king, probably, having an insatiable curiosity to know the private history of a man who had done such astonishing things. As to the circumstances of Gehazi's disease, he might overlook that, and converse with him, keeping at a reasonable distance, as nothing but actual contact could defile.

Gehazi

2 Kings 5:20-27 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my …

2 Kings 7:3,10 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and …

Tell

Matthew 2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently …

Luke 9:9 And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I …

Luke 23:8 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous …

John 9:27 He answered them, I have told you already, and you did not hear: …

Acts 24:24 And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which …

all the great

2 Kings 2:14,20-22,24 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the …

2 Kings 3:14-16 And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely…

2 Kings 4:3-6,16,17 Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, …

2 Kings 5:14,27 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according …

2 Kings 6:6,9-12,17-20,32 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed him the place. …

2 Kings 7:1,16-20 Then Elisha said, Hear you the word of the LORD; Thus said the LORD…

And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.
And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.

And it came

2 Kings 8:13 And Hazael said, But what, is your servant a dog, that he should …

1 Samuel 16:12,13 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and with of a …

1 Samuel 24:4-7,13 And the men of David said to him, Behold the day of which the LORD …

1 Samuel 26:9-11 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth …

1 Kings 11:26-37 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's …

on the morrow

Psalm 36:4 He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is …

Micah 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when …

that he took a thick cloth There is a considerable degree of ambiguity in this passage. The pronoun [he] is generally referred to Hazael; but Dr. Geddes and others are decidedly of the opinion, that we should understand by it {Ben-hadad}; who, encouraged by the favourable answer of Elisha, as reported to Hazael, adopted a violent remedy to all the heat of his fever, and put over his face the {keever, or fly-net}. See note on

1 Samuel 19:13 And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow …

so that he died

2 Kings 9:24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between …

2 Kings 15:10-14,25,30 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him …

1 Kings 15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, …

1 Kings 16:10,18 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and …

Isaiah 33:1 Woe to you that spoil, and you were not spoiled; and deal treacherously…

Hazael

2 Kings 8:13 And Hazael said, But what, is your servant a dog, that he should …

1 Kings 19:15 And the LORD said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness …

And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

A.M.

And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.
In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.

Zair Zair is supposed by Calmet and others to be the same as Seir, the country of Seir the Horite, inhabited by the Edomites or Idumeans. Probably the former was a dialectical pronunciation of the latter.

Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.

Two and twenty In the parallel passage of Chronicles, it is said, `forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign;' but this is evidently a mistake, as 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 years old.

2 Kings 8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned …

See note on

2 Chronicles 22:2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he …

2 Kings 9:21-27 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram …

2 Chronicles 22:5-8 He walked also after their counsel…

Athaliah

2 Kings 11:1,13-16 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, …

daughter. or, grand-daughter

2 Kings 8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house …

And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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