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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

2 Kings 1:4

Now therefore; for this was a very heinous crime, to deny the perfections of God, and to transfer them to an idol. See Leviticus 19:31, Leviticus 20:6,27 Deu 18:10. Elijah departed; the messengers not daring to apprehend him, as suspecting him to be more than man, because he knew the secret message which the king delivered to them in his bedchamber.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 1:4. _BUT SHALT SURELY DIE._] The true God tells you this; he in whose hands are both life and death, who can kill and make alive. Baal-zebub can do nothing; God has determined that your...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEREFORE ... - As a punishment for this insult to Yahweh....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. ELIJAH's FINAL MINISTRY AND TRANSLATION 1. Elijah and Ahaziah CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Moab's rebellion (2 Kings 1:1)_ 2. The illness of Ahaziah (2 Kings 1:2) 3. Elijah's messa...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    2 KINGS 1:1 TO 2 KINGS 2:25. LAST DAYS AND ASCENSION OF ELIJAH: ELISHA ESTABLISHED AS HIS SUCCESSOR. Here we have perhaps a third Elijah narrative, in which the prophet is represented as playing a par...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SHALT SURELY DIE. Same as Genesis 2:17....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And Elijah departed_ i.e. to fulfil the command which had been given him by the angel. The LXX. adds -and spake unto them". The compiler of the Kings leaves out here any mention of the first meeting...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOU SHALT NOT COME DOWN FROM THAT BED, &C.— At one end of each chamber in the eastern buildings there is a little gallery raised three, four, or five feet above the floor, having a ballustrade in the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. THE ILLNESS OF AHAZIAH (2 Kings 1:1-8) TRANSLATION (1) Now Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. (2) And Ahaziah fell through a lattice in his upper chamber which was in Samaria, a...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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 not come down from that bed. On being take...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ELIJAH CALLS DOWN FIRE FROM HEAVEN 1. Moab.. Ahab] Moab had been conquered by David (2 Samuel 8:2), and at the revolt of the Ten Tribes had. passed under the authority of the northern kingdom. The rev...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ ABOUT THE BOOKS OF 1 KINGS AND 2 KINGS The Books of 1 Kings and 2 Kings used to be one book. That book continued the account o...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    NOW THEREFORE. — For this act of faithlessness, and to prove by the event that there is a God in Israel, whose oracle is unerring. (Comp. 1 Kings 18:24, seq.) THUS SAITH. — Or,_ hath said._ After thes...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ לָכֵן֙ כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הַ מִּטָּ֞ה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    AHAZIAH BEN-AHAB OF ISRAEL 2 Kings 1:1 B.C. 855-854 "Ye know not of what spirit are ye." - Luke 9:55 "He is the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises." - He...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A MESSAGE FROM THE TRUE GOD 2 Kings 1:1 The king's accident was probably due to the giving way of the balustrade that surrounded the roof of his palace. The Law expressly provided that this lattice-w...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The history of the second Book of Kings is a continuation of that contained in the first Book. There everything ended with the dark days immediately following the death of Ahab and the passing into co...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Away; probably to his usual abode, at Carmel, where the king sent to seize him._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! to what a wretched state was Israel reduced, in consequence of their idolatry! It is almost incredible to conceive how the mind of any man could ever be so degenerate as to fancy a dumb idol c...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    It has been already remarked that the mission, or, at any rate, the proper ministry of Elijah closed with his own complaint against the children of Israel. God took him at his word. He pleaded against...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    If God has shewn that He took notice of His servant's fault, and did not pass it lightly over, He did not fail towards him in either tenderness or faithfulness. He acted towards him as towards a belov...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOW THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... Jehovah, the only true God: THOU SHALT NOT COME DOWN FROM THAT BED ON WHICH THOU ART GONE UP, BUT SHALL SURELY DIE; this sickness should be unto death, and the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 4. _Thou shalt surely die._] _Tempore non tuo_ Ecc...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [AHAZIAH SICKE.] 1 Moab rebelleth. 2 Ahaziah, sending to Baalzebub, hath his iudgement by Eliiah. 5 Eliiah twise bringeth fire from heauen vpon them whom Ahaziah sent to apprehend him. 13 He pitie...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Now, therefore, thus saith the Lord, as a punishment upon the king for this new exhibition of idolatry, THOU SHALT NOT COME DOWN FROM THAT BED ON WHICH THOU ART GONE UP, BUT SHALT SURELY DIE. AND ELIJ...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Elijah Prophesies Ahaziah's Death...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    AHAZIAH'S FALL AND DEATH (Ch.1:1-18) Verse 1 reports that after Ahab's death Moab rebelled against Israel. As to this, Chapter s 3 and 4:27 give us a full account. Ahaziah, king of Israel, suffered...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THOU SHALT NOT COME DOWN FROM THAT BED ON WHICH THOU ART GONE UP: _ Heb._ the bed, whither thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 When Ahaziah rebelled against the Lord, Moab revolted from him. Sin weakens and impoverishes us. Man's revolt from God is often punished by the rebellion of those who owe subjection to him. Ahazi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 1:4 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 down H3381 (H8799) bed H4296 up H5927 (H8804) surely...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    AHAZIAH'S ACCIDENT AND HIS INTENTION OF CONSULTING THE OCCULT INSTEAD OF YHWH WHICH IS THWARTED BY ELIJAH (2 KINGS 1:2). 2 Kings 1:2 ‘ And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber w...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE REIGN OF AHAZIAH KING OF ISRAEL C. 853-852 BC (1 KINGS 22:51 - 2 KINGS 1:18). Ahaziah, Ahab's son and king of Israel, only had a short reign of a few months (two part years) but he amply succeeded...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Elijah's message to Ahaziah. Elijah's deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, angel (Jesus), Elijah, Ahaziah. CONCLUSION: Those who will not inquire of the Word of God for their comfort will be made...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Kings 1:2. _Go, enquire of Baal-zebub, whether I shall recover._ בעל זבוב _Baal-zebub,_ the god of Ekron. The LXX read Βααλ μυιαν, the lord of flies, because they swarmed about his bloody temple; bu...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice._ WORLDLY ROYALTY AND PERSONAL GODLINESS I. Worldly royalty in a humiliating condition. 1. A king in mortal suffering. 2. A king in mental distress. 3. A...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS 1:1 The Death of Ahaziah. King Ahaziah, Ahab’s son, has been injured. He wants to know whether he will live. Elijah obeys God and delivers a message to the king. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 1:3 In a scene similar to the opening verses of 1 Kings 19:1, when Ahaziah sends messengers (2 Kings

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE SICKNESS AND DEATH OF AHAZIAH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 1:1. THEN MOAB REBELLED—Since the time of David the Moabites had been tributary to Israel (2 Samuel 8:2; 2 Samuel 23:20) On...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 1:1 THE REVOLT OF MOAB. THE ILLNESS, IMPIETY, AND DEATH OF AHAZIAH The narrative of the Second Book of Kings follows on that of the First Book in the closest po

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    By Chuck Smith Now as we finish First Kings, we were dealing with basically the northern kingdom under Ahab with his wicked wife Jezebel who had brought the northern kingdom of Israel into its lowest...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 14:12; 1 Samuel 28:19; Ezekiel 18:4; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:4

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