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2 Kings 1:15

be not afraid of him Some have taken the pronoun here to refer to the captain. This can hardly be correct. The third messenger was all humility and entreaty, and the only person to be feared was the king Ahaziah, irate because of the destruction of his soldiers and the defiance of his authority.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 1:15. _AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SAID - GO DOWN WITH HIM_] This is an additional proof that Elijah was then acting under _particular inspirations_: he had neither _will_ nor _design_ of...

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND HE AROSE, AND WENT DOWN WITH HIM UNTO THE KING— This is a great instance of Elijah's faith and obedience to God, in whom he trusted, that he would deliver him from the wrath of the king, and the m...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. AHAZIAH'S EFFORTS TO ARREST ELIJAH 1:9-15 TRANSLATION (9) And he sent unto him a captain of fifty and his fifty, and he went op unto him, and behold he was sitting upon the top of a hill. And he s...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SAID UNTO ELIJAH, GO DOWN WITH HIM: BE NOT AFRAID OF HIM. AND HE AROSE, AND WENT DOWN WITH HIM UNTO THE KING._ Arose, and went down with him. A marvelous instance of faith...

  • 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

    SAID. — So LXX. (εἶπεν). Heb., _spake_. Vulgate and Arabic add “saying.” (See Note on 2 Kings 1:3.) GO DOWN. — From the mountain top into the city. WITH HIM. — ’_Othô_, later form for ’_ittô_, which...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְדַבֵּ֞ר מַלְאַ֤ךְ יְהוָה֙ אֶל ־אֵ֣לִיָּ֔הוּ...

  • 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

    CONSUMING FIRE 2 Kings 1:9 An awful fate overtook the first two captains; but it must be noted that they were extremely violent and arrogant in their behavior and speech. The altered tone of the last...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be (m) not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king. (m) Thus the Lord gives boldness to his, that they fear not...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    We are not told who this angel was. But may we not conjecture? When we recollect how much our Almighty Jesus, who is expressly called the angel of the covenant, delighted to manifest himself, in those...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _ELIJAH’S DEFIANCE OF AHAZIAH_ ‘And the angel of the Lord said unto Elijah, Go down with him.’ 2 Kings 1:15 I. AHAB WAS SUCCEEDED BY HIS SON AHAZIAH, and Ahaziah is one of those shadowy monarchs wh...

  • 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

    AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SAID UNTO ELIJAH, e.] The same as in 2 Kings 1:3 or "had said" g, as some render it, before this captain came: GO DOWN WITH HIM the captain and his men: AND BE NOT AFRAID O...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king. Ver. 15. _Be not afraid of him._] See 2 Kings 1:9. _Cur timeat...

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

    _He arose and went down with him_ Not fearing the rage of the king, nor that of Jezebel, or all their forces: wherein he gives an eminent example of his faith in God's protection, and obedience to his...

  • 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

    And the Angel of the Lord, the same who had directed him to DELIVER the message to the king's ambassadors, said unto Elijah, Go down with him; be not afraid of him, that is, of the king. AND HE AROSE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Punishment of Ahaziah's Servants and his 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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-18 Elijah called for fire from heaven, to consume the haughty, daring sinners; not to secure himself, but to prove his mission, and to reveal the wrath of God from heaven, against the ungodliness a...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Not fearing the rage of the king, nor of Jezebel, nor of all their forces; wherein he gives an eminent example of his faith and obedience; and withal, of his growth in grace since that time that he fl...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 1:15 angel H4397 LORD H3068 said H1696 (H8762) Elijah H452 down H3381 (H8798) afraid H3372 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE KING SENDS HIS GUARDS TO ARREST ELIJAH (2 KINGS 1:9). If fifty assassins had burst in on the king with the intention of killing him, and they had been mown down by his guards, no one would have ra...

  • 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...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...

  • 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

    _Go down with him, be not afraid._ THE OLD COURAGE AGAIN The age of the Mosaic Law, which shed its empire over the times of Elijah, was preeminently the era in which those awful and splendid attribut...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty._ THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TWO CAPTAINS WITH THEIR COMPANIES Consider-- I. The steps which led up to this miracle. 1. Seeking help where it was not to...

  • 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 1:13 THIRD CAPTAIN. This man shows Elijah respect as a prophet of the Lord. Ahaziah has his desired meeting with Elijah, but it changes nothing: the king dies. His brother JEHO...

  • 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 18:15; Ezekiel 2:6; Genesis 15:1; Hebrews 11:27; Isaiah 51:12

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