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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

2 Kings 8:10

Howbeit — Here is no contradiction: for the first words contain an answer to Benhadad's question, shall I recover? To which the answer is, thou mayest, notwithstanding thy disease, which is not mortal. The latter words contain the prophet's addition to that answer, which is, that he should die, not by the power of his disease, but by some other cause.

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See also 2 Kings 8:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 8:10. _THOU MAYEST CERTAINLY RECOVER: HOWBEIT THE LORD HATH_ _SHOWED ME THAT HE SHALL SURELY DIE._] That is, God has not _determined_ thy death, nor will it be a _necessary consequence_...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Translate - “Go, say unto him, Thou shalt certainly live: howbeit the Lord hath showed me that he shall certainly die.” i. e.,” Say to him, what thou hast already determined to say, what a courtier is...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE. HAZAEL, KING OF SYRIA. This chapter is somewhat varied as to composition. It opens with a short story about Elisha (2 Kings 8:1), of which we may presuppose (_a_) that it is...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MAYEST CERTAINLY RECOVER, &C.. "so far as re-covering goes, thou wilt recover. And [yet] Jehovah hath made me plainly see that he will surely die. " SURELY DIE. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_. See not...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly_[R.V. SHALT SURELY] _recover_ This is not the translation of the Hebrew text (_Kethib_) but of the marginal reading [_Keri_. The variation is between לא the ne...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    GO SAY UNTO HIM, THOU MAYEST CERTAINLY RECOVER, &C.— _Go say, Thou shalt certainly not live,_ &c. See Kennicott's first Dissert. p. 163.; but Houbigant thinks that ours is the just translation, and th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. PREDICTION CONCERNING THE CAREER OF HAZAEL 8:7-15 TRANSLATION (7) Now Elisha went to Damascus when Benhadad the king of Aram was sick. And it was told him, saying, The man of God has come here. (8...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND ELISHA SAID UNTO HIM, GO, SAY UNTO HIM, THOU MAYEST CERTAINLY RECOVER: HOWBEIT THE LORD HATH SHEWED ME THAT HE SHALL SURELY DIE._ Go, say ... Thou mayest certainly recover. There was no contradi...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SAY UNTO HIM] Elisha presumably meant that the disease from which Benhadad was suffering was not a fatal one, but that he would die by other means. Some suppose that Elisha spoke ironically (like Mica...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE. ELISHA AND HAZAEL. REIGNS OF JEHORAM AND AHAZIAH OF JUDAH 1. Then spake Elisha] The occasion is not indicated, all the stories related of Elisha in this and the three prece...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 8 THE REPORT ABOUT ELISHA’S *MIRACLES V1 Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had brought back to life. ‘Go aw...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (7-15) Elisha’s visit to Damascus, and its consequences....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    UNTO HIM. — The reading of some Hebrew MSS., of the Hebrew margin, and of all the versions, as well as of Josephus. The ordinary Hebrew text has “not” (_lô_’, instead of _lô_), so that the meaning wou...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ אֱלִישָׁ֔ע לֵ֥ךְ אֱמָר־_לֹ֖ו_†...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE SHUNAMMITE AND HAZAEL 2 Kings 8:1 (_ Circa_ B.C. 886) "Our acts still follow with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are." -GEORGE ELIOT THE next anecdote of Elisha brings u...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE POWER BEHIND THE THRONE 2 Kings 8:1 Nothing happens in our life or in the world apart from the divine appointment or permission. Behind every event and incident there is a divine providence. The...

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

    The influence of Elisha is incidentally seen in the converse of the king with Gehazi and the restoration of the lands of the Shunammite woman for the sake of the prophet. Elisha visited Damascus, wher...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly (f) recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die. (f) Meaning that he would recover of this disease: but he knew...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Tell him: Thou shalt recover. By these words the prophet signified that the king's disease was not mortal: and that he would recover, if no violence were used. Or he might only express himself in this...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It is not very easy to ascertain at what time it was that Elisha paid this visit to Damascus. The Lord had commanded Elijah about 21 years before this period: See 1 Kings 19:15. (that is, supposing, t...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    However, the next chapter (2 Kings 3:1-27) brings us at once into earthly circumstances. "Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of J...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The history of the woman [1], whose son Elisha had raised to life again, gives us a little picture of all God's dealings with Israel. During long years, as determined by Jehovah, Israel is deprived of...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND ELISHA SAID UNTO HIM, GO, SAY UNTO HIM, THOU MAYEST CERTAINLY RECOVER,.... That is, of the disease; and there was not only a probability that he might recover of it, it not being a mortal one, but...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die. Ver. 10. Thou mayest certainly recover:] _Responsum_ ειρωνικον, sa...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit_, &c. Here is no contradiction: for the first words contain an answer to Ben- hadad's question, _Shall I recover?_ To which the answer is, _Thou m...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Shunammite, hauing left her countrey seuen yeeres, to auoide the forewarned famine, for Elishas miracle sake, hath her land restored by the king. 7 Hazael being sent with a present by Benhadad...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover, literally, "Not wilt thou live"; HOWBEIT, THE LORD HATH SHOWED ME THAT HE SHALL SURELY DIE, not, indeed, of this disease, but...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    HAZAEL ANOINTED KING...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SHUNAMITE AGAIN (vv.1-6) The Shunamite woman is typical of the godly remnant of Israel. She had learned the grace of God in giving new life (ch.4:17) and further in resurrection power (ch.4:32-3...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-15 Among other changes of men's minds by affliction, it often gives other thoughts of God's ministers, and teaches to value the counsels and prayers of those whom they have hated and despised. It w...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Here is no contradiction; for the first words contain an answer to Ben-hadad's question, 2 KINGS 8:8, SHALL I RECOVER OF THIS DISEASE? To which the answer is, _Thou mayest or shalt recover_, i.e. notw...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 8:10 Elisha H477 said H559 (H8799) Go H3212 (H8798) say H559 (H8798) certainly H2421 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    BENHADAD OF ARAM, THROUGH HIS SERVANT HAZAEL, SEEKS ELISHA'S ASSURANCE THAT HIS ILLNESS IS NOT FATAL, BUT ELISHA DISCERNS DARK DEEDS AHEAD AT THE HANDS OF HAZAEL (2 KINGS 8:7). This incident presumabl...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    2 Kings 8:7 From this history some points of instruction may be derived. I. You cannot predict, from a man's early natural disposition, what he will be capable of. Nothing will save a man but firm h...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Famine predicted. Jehoram restores the Shunanmite land. Reigns of Jehoram and Ahaziah of Judah and Joram of Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Elisha, Gehazi, Jehoram, Ben-hadad, Hazael, Ahaziah, Shu...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Kings 8:8. _Take a present._ See on 1 Kings 14:3. 2 Kings 8:10. _Thou mayest certainly recover._ Aye, say as you all do, both physicians and courtiers. Cry aloud, for Baal is a god. This was said in...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou mayest certainly recover._ IGNORANCE OF THE FUTURE The subject which I propose to discuss is the moral effect of ignorance of the future. I. The avidity with which men seek to know the future....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Elisha came to Damascus._ STRIKING CHARACTERS We have here-- I. A dying king. 1. This dying king was very anxious. “Shall I recover of this disease?” This was the question he wanted Elisha to answ...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 8:7 The house of Omri has now held the throne of Israel since 1 Kings 16:23, and in spite of Elijah’s prophecy about its end ...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 8:10 SAY TO HIM, “YOU SHALL CERTAINLY RECOVER.” Verses 2 Kings 8:11 indicate that Elisha knows that whatever Hazael

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 8:7. AND ELISHA CAME TO DAMASCUS—Elijah, his master, had been divinely commissioned to this (1 Kings 19:15), and now Elisha. “by the instigation of the Spirit”...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 8:1 THE SEQUEL OF THE STORY OF THE SHUNAMMITE. THE KILLING OF BENHADAD BY HAZAEL; AND...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Elisha spake unto the woman, whose son had been restored to life, and he said, [You better get out of here because there's going to be a seven-year famine in this area] (2 Kings 8:1). And so she l...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 22:15; 2 Kings 1:16; 2 Kings 1:4; 2 Kings 8:13; 2 Kings 8:15;...

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