2 Kings 7:1
Measure — Heb. Seah, a measure containing six cabs, or about a peck and pottle of our measure.... [ Continue Reading ]
Measure — Heb. Seah, a measure containing six cabs, or about a peck and pottle of our measure.... [ Continue Reading ]
Windows — Through which he could rain down corn, as once he did Manna.... [ Continue Reading ]
Hittites — Under which name (as elsewhere under the name of the Amorites) he seems to understand all the people of Canaan. For though the greatest number of that people were destroyed, yet very many of them were spared, and many of them upon Joshua's coming, fled away, some to remote parts, others t... [ Continue Reading ]
Fled — None of them had so much sense as to send scouts to discover the supposed enemy, much less, courage enough to face them. God can when he pleases, dispirit the boldest, and make the stoutest heart to tremble. They that will not fear God, he can make them fear at the shaking of a leaf. Perhaps... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, &c. — The words may be rendered, Behold, they are of a truth (the Hebrew prefix, Caph, being not here a note of similitude, but an affirmation of the truth and certainty of the things, as it is taken Numbers 11:1; Deuteronomy 9:10,) all the multitude of the horses of Israel that are left in... [ Continue Reading ]
And so it fell out, &c. — See how heinously God resents our distrust of his power, providence and promise! Whenever God promises the end, he knows where to provide the means.... [ Continue Reading ]