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2 Kings 3:15-19

2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 Kings 3:15 bring me a musician. Music plays a part in Elisha receiving his message from God (compare 1 Samuel 10:5). The immediate crisis (no water, 2 Kings 3:9) is to be dealt with by a miracle, as the nearby streambed shall be filled with water from a mysterious source (neither wind nor rain). God will give the alliance a complete victory over Moab. They will attack every fortified city and every choice city, devastating the land as they move through it. Deuteronomy 20:19 prohibits this kind of destruction in normal cases, but here the Moabites as a nation are to be destroyed (see note on Deut. 20:16–18), rather than simply conquered.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 3:15. _BRING ME A MINSTREL._] A person who played on the _harp_. The rabbins, and many Christians, suppose that Elisha's mind was considerably irritated and grieved by the bad behaviour...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Music seems to have been a regular accompaniment of prophecy in the “schools of the prophets” (marginal reference), and an occasional accompaniment of it elsewhere Exodus 15:20....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. JEHORAM, MOAB, AND ELISHA CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Jehoram, King of Israel (2 Kings 3:1)_ 2. Moab's rebellion (2 Kings 3:4) 3. Elisha's message and prediction (2 Kings 3:10) 4. The defeat of Moab ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    REIGN OF JEHORAM. WAR WITH MOAB. The only two kings of Israel on whom the censure pronounced is in any way qualified are Jehoram, the last of the house of Omri, and Hoshea (2 Kings 17:2), the last kin...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MINSTREL. harper. From Hebrew. _nagan,_ to harp. HAND. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_ (App-6). But some codices, with Aramaean, read "the Spirit"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _But now bring me a minstrel_ Of the power of music over the mind we have examples in the history of Saul (1 Samuel 16:23) and also of the use of music by the companies of prophets (1 Samuel 10:5). Bu...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BRING ME A MINSTREL— See on 1 Samuel 10:5; 1 Samuel 16:14 and Joh. Mulleri, _Eliseus, ad Musices sonum Propheta._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. THE JOINT CAMPAIGN AGAINST MOAB 3:4-27 The one major effort of Jehoram's twelve-year reign was his effort to resubjugate Moab. In this effort Jehoram was able to enlist the services of Jehoshaphat...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT NOW BRING ME A MINSTREL. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE MINSTREL PLAYED, THAT THE HAND OF THE LORD CAME UPON HIM._ Bring me a minstrel. The effect of music in soothing the mind is much regarded i...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEHORAM AND ELISHA. VICTORY OVER MOAB 1. THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF JEHOSHAPHAT] according to 2 Kings 1:17, 'in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BRING ME A MINSTREL] For the connexion of music with prophecy cp. 1 Samuel 10:5. The hand of the LORD] cp. Ezekiel 33:22....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 3 THE WAR AGAINST MOAB V1 Ahab’s son Joram became the king of *Israel in Samaria. That happened in the 18th year when...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BRING ME A MINSTREL. — _Mĕnaggçn_ — _i.e._, a harper, player on a stringed instrument (_nĕgînâh_). Elisha called for music as a natural means of calming his perturbed spirit (2 Kings 3:13). Composure...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עַתָּ֖ה קְחוּ ־לִ֣י מְנַגֵּ֑ן וְ הָיָה֙

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    _THE INVASION OF MOAB_ 2 Kings 3:4 "What reinforcement we may gain from hope, If not, what resolution from despair." -MILTON, "Paradise Lost, " 1:190 AHAZIAH, as Elijah had warned him, never recove...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    MESHA'S DEFEAT AND DESPERATE SACRIFICE 2 Kings 3:13 Jehoshaphat, though erring, was still God's child, and deliverance came to him. The heights of our senseless folly and the depths of our waywardnes...

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

    At this point the history goes back and describes the beginning of the war with Moab, to which reference was made at the opening of the book. It was a combined movement of Israel and Judah and Edom ag...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel (l) played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him. (l) He sang songs to God's glory, and so stirred up the prophets heart to prop...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Minstrel. The priests and Levites, who officiated in the temple, accompanied the army. Eliseus wants no profane music, (Calmet) but, by this request, shews his respect for the true religion, (Haydock)...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I pray the Reader to mark with me the astonishing goodness of the Lord. Surely here, in an eminent degree, that scripture was fulfilled, Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Romans 5:20. Is...

  • 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 FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 3 AND 4. In the following chapter we enter into the historical part of Elisha's ministry. Jehoram goes to war; and, although less wicked than his father, the...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT NOW BRING ME A MINSTREL,.... A piper, a man that knows how to play upon the harp, as the Targum; according to Procopius Gazaeus, this was one of the Levites he ordered to be fetched, who was used...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him. Ver. 15. _But now bring me a minstrel,_] Heb., One that striketh with his hand upo...

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

    _Now bring me a minstrel_ One that can sing and play well upon an instrument of music. This he requires, that his mind, which had been disturbed at the sight of idolatrous Jehoram, might be composed,...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Iehorams reigne. 4 Mesha rebelleth. 6 Iehoram, with Iehoshaphat, and the king of Edom, being distressed for want of water, by Elisha obtaineth water, and promise of victory. 21 The Moabites decei...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But now bring me a minstrel, a harp-player, his intention being by means of the soothing influence of music to withdraw his mind from the outer world and prepare for any Revelation which the Lord migh...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE MIRACLE IN THE WILDERNESS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JEHORAM, JEHOSHAPHAT AND MOAB (vv.1-27) Jehoram, Ahab's son, reigned, over Israel 12 years and followed the sinful example of Jereboam, though not doing so wickedly as Ahab, for he got rid of the i...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-19 The king of Israel laments their distress, and the danger they were in. He called these kings together, yet he charges it upon Providence. Thus the foolishness of man perverteth his way, and the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    A MINSTREL; one that can sing and play upon a musical instrument. This he requires, that his mind, which had been disturbed and inflamed with holy anger at the sight of wicked Jehoram, might be compos...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 3:15 bring H3947 (H8798) musician H5059 (H8764) musician H5059 (H8764) played H5059 (H8763) hand...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    D. YHWH'S PROVISION FOR THE ALLIANCE FORCES AND THE SUBJUGATION OF MOAB WHICH HAS HOWEVER AN UNFORTUNATE CONSEQUENCE IN MESHA'S CHILD-SACRIFICE (2 KINGS 3:15). YHWH's reply indicated that they had to...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    1). THE REIGN OF JEHORAM KING OF ISRAEL C. 852-841 BC: WAR WITH MOAB (2 KINGS 3:1). The interlude of Elisha's succession to Elijah having taken place in preparation for the future, the narrative now r...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    2 Kings 3:15 On this occasion Elisha was ruffled or heated; and he felt that he was in no fit frame to receive Divine communications and impressions. The angry heart shuts out the gracious Spirit of G...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Accession of Jehoram over Israel. Moab rebels against Israel. Elisha's reproof of alliance between Jehoshaphat and Jehoram. Defeat of Moabites. CHARACTERS: God, Jehoram, Jehoshaphat, Mesha,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Kings 3:1. _Jehoram began to reign the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat._ There is a small difficulty here in regard to the chronology of those times. It is said that Ahaziah began to reign the sevent...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And Elisha said unto the King of Israel, What have I to do with thee _ ASPECTS OF A GODLY MAN Elisha was confessedly a godly man of a high type, and these verses reveal him to us in three aspects:-...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 3:4. AN ANNUAL TRIBUTE ON MOAB—The custom is common in the East to pay custom or taxes with the products of the land. For a Moabitish king, with rich pastures...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 3:1 THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF JEHORAM'S REIGN OVER ISRAEL; HIS WAR WITH MOAB....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now chapter 3. Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, and he reigned for twelve years (2 Kings 3:1). So Jehoram, t...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 25:2; 1 Chronicles 25:3; 1 Kings 18:46; 1 Samuel 10:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Minstrel — One that can sing and play upon a musical instrument. This he requires, that his mind which had been disturbed at the sight of wicked Jehoram, might be composed, and that he might be excite...

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