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2 Kings 1
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  • Introduction

    1 Moab rebels.

    2 Ahaziah, sending to Baal-zebub, hath his judgment by Elijah.

    5 Elijah twice brings fire from heaven upon them whom Ahaziah sent to apprehend him.

    13 He pities the third captain, and, encouraged by an angel, tells the king of his death.

    17 Jehoram succeeds Ahaziah.


  • Verse 1

    Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

    Moab
    Numbers 24:7; 2 Samuel 8:2; 1 Chronicles 18:2; Psalms 60:8
    after the
    3:4,5; 8:20,22


  • Verse 2

    And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.

    a lattice
    The flat roofs of the eastern houses are generally surrounded by a parapet wall breast high; but instead of this, some terraces are guarded with balustrades only, or latticed work. Of the same kind, probably, was the lattice, or net, as the term shevacha seems to import, through which Ahaziah fell into the court. This incident proves the necessity of the law for the formation of battlements for roof, (De 22:8,) which God graciously dictated from Sinai, which furnishes a beautiful example of his paternal care and goodness; for the terrace was a place where many offices of the family were performed, and business frequently transacted.
    Judges 5:28; Song of Solomon 2:9; Acts 20:9
    was sick
    1 Kings 22:34; *marg:; 2 Chronicles 21:14,15; Job 31:3
    Baal-zebub
    3,6,16; Matthew 10:25; 12:24-27; Mark 3:22; Luke 11:15
    Beelzebub
    god.
    Judges 11:24; 1 Samuel 5:10; 1 Kings 11:33; Isaiah 37:12,19
    whether
    8:7-10; 1 Kings 14:3


  • Verse 3

    But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?

    angel
    15; 1 Kings 19:5,7; Acts 8:26; 12:7-11
    Elijah
    8; 1 Kings 17:1
    Arise
    1 Kings 18:1
    it
    6,16; 5:8,15; 1 Samuel 17:46; 1 Kings 18:36; Psalms 76:1
    ye go
    Jeremiah 2:11-13; Jonah 2:8; Mark 3:22


  • Verse 4

    Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.

    Thou shalt, etc
    Heb. The bed whither thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it. but shalt.
    Genesis 2:17; 3:4; Numbers 26:65; 1 Samuel 28:19; 1 Kings 14:12; Proverbs 11:19; 14:32; Ezekiel 18:4


  • Verse 6

    And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

    Thus saith
    Isaiah 41:22,23
    therefore
    3,4; 1 Chronicles 10:13,14; Psalms 16:4


  • Verse 7

    And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?

    What manner of man was he? Heb
    What was the manner of the man?
    Judges 8:18; 1 Samuel 28:14


  • Verse 8

    And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

    an hairy man
    That is, he wore a rough garment, either made of camels' hair, as that of John Baptist, or of a skin, dressed with the hair on. Sir J. Chardin informs us, in a MS. note on this place, cited by Mr. Harmer, that the eastern dervishes and fakeers are clothed just as Elijah was, with a hairy garment, girded with a leathern girdle.
    Isaiah 20:2; Zechariah 13:4; Matthew 3:4; 11:8; Luke 1:17; Revelation 11:3


  • Verse 9

    Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.

    sent unto
    6:13,14; 1 Kings 18:4,10; 19:2; 22:8,26,27; Matthew 14:3
    he sat
    1 Kings 18:42; Luke 6:11,12
    Thou man
    Amos 7:12; Matthew 26:68; 27:29,41-43; Mark 15:29,32; Hebrews 11:36


  • Verse 10

    And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

    If I be a man
    2:23,24; Numbers 16:28-30; 1 Kings 18:36-38; 22:28; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Psalms 105:15; Matthew 21:41; 23:34-37; Acts 5:3-10
    let fire
    Or, rather, as the original literally imports, and the LXX. render, [katabesetai pyr] fire shall come down; Elijah's words being simply declarative, and not imprecatory.
    Numbers 11:1; 16:35; Job 1:16; Psalms 106:18; Luke 9:54; Hebrews 12:29; Revelation 11:5
    consumed
    Daniel 3:22,25; 6:24; Acts 12:19