2 Kings 7:1
_A stater. It is the same as a sicle or shekel. (Challoner) --- As it is in Hebrew and Septuagint. --- Bushel, or "measure," (Haydock) above 9 pints. --- Gate, where the market place commonly was. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_A stater. It is the same as a sicle or shekel. (Challoner) --- As it is in Hebrew and Septuagint. --- Bushel, or "measure," (Haydock) above 9 pints. --- Gate, where the market place commonly was. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lords. Hebrew shalish, "an officer" of the first rank, Exodus xiv. 7. Septuagint Greek: tristates, which Josephus explains of one who "commands a third part of the army." (Calmet) --- Flood-gates. If corn should fall with the same abundance as water does from the cataracts of the Nile; or, Hebrew,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lepers. They were excluded from society, though the laws of religion were ill observed in Israel. The Rabbins say, these four were Giezi and his three sons. (Calmet) --- But this is without foundation, (Haydock) as Giezi was not yet a leper, chap. viii. 5. --- Salien places that judgment two years... [ Continue Reading ]
_Evening. Hebrew, "twilight." --- First part, where the advanced guard should be, or the nearest tents._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hethites. Septuagint, "Chetteans." Josephus, "the islands" of Cyprus, &c. He seems to have read Cethim in the text, as they peopled Cyprus. (Calmet) --- See Jeremias ii. 10. (Menochius) --- These Hethites seem to have dwelt in the stony Arabia, (Judges i. 26.) or in Syria. (Haydock) --- Solomon had... [ Continue Reading ]
_Crime, and punished. Hebrew, "iniquity shall find us." Citizens are bound to give notice of what may tend to the common good. (Calmet) --- Court. Not in person, but by means of others. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tied to the mangers, or rather by the hind-legs, as it is still the custom in the East. (Xenophon. Anab. iii. Martyr legat. Babyl.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Consumed, for food. (Menochius) --- Septuagint, "Let them take five of the horses left. Those which are left here, behold they are to all the remaining multitude of Israel, and let us send them." They have read in a different manner from the present Hebrew, which has, "Let them take five of the hors... [ Continue Reading ]
_Horses. Hebrew, "chariot horses," or two chariots with (each) two horses, as it was customary to go to war, and to travel on chariots. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Gate, to prevent confusion and accidents, (Josephus) or to guard against any return of the enemy. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER VII.... [ Continue Reading ]