SONS. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), for grandsons and greatgrandsons. UNTO. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and unto". RULERS. elders. OF JEZREEL. Doubtless they had fled to Samaria, being in great fear (2 Kings 10:4) from what Jehu had done in Jezreel.... [ Continue Reading ]
MINE. for me. THE MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14. PERSONS. Hebrew. _'ish._ MEN. Hebrew. _'ish_. App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
BASKETS. the baskets. Hebrew. _dud,_ for carrying fruit. Still used for this purpose. Not _sal_ (bread-basket), which Gideon (Judges 6:19), and Pharaoh's baker (Genesis 40:17) used.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE BE RIGHTEOUS. Said by way of flattery and to allay disaffection.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORD OF THE 10RD. the word of Jehovah. Compare 1 Kings 21:19. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. BY. by the hand of.... [ Continue Reading ]
KINSFOLKS. acquaintance.... [ Continue Reading ]
BRETHREN. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part) for near relatives. Compare 2 Chronicles 22:8, where we have "sons of the brethren". CHILDREN. sons. THE KING. Joram. THE QUEEN. Jezebel, the queen-mother.... [ Continue Reading ]
JEHONADAB. He was. Kenite (1 Chronicles 2:55), descendants of the father-in-law of Moses (Numbers 10:29; Judges 1:16; Judges 4:11; 1 Samuel 15:6). See Jeremiah 35. AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEE. be eyewitnesses of. ZEAL FOR THE LORD. Not pure. See verses: 2 Kings 10:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
WORSHIPPERS. servants.... [ Continue Reading ]
PROCLAIM. Sanctify, Hallow, or Solemnise.... [ Continue Reading ]
FULL, &C.. so full [that they stood] mouth to mouth. _Ellipsis_ to be thus supplied, as in Authorized Version margin.... [ Continue Reading ]
OFFER. prepare. See App-43. LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CITY. Hebrew. _'lr,_ the innermost or most inaccessible part, whether of. city (= the citadel) or. house (as here).... [ Continue Reading ]
IMAGES, or statues. THEM. each of them.... [ Continue Reading ]
DRAUGHT HOUSE. dunghill, middens, _latrince._... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE ISRAEL TO SIN. See note on 1 Kings 14:16. TO WIT. namely. IN DAN. See 1 Kings 12:29; 1 Kings 12:30, and compare Genesis 49:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOURTH GENERATION. See 2 Kings 15:12. These were Jehoahaz, Joash, Jeroboam II, and Zachariah. Jehu's dynasty was the longest in all Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. THE SINS. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. Some codices read "all the sins".... [ Continue Reading ]
TO CUT ISRAEL SHORT: or, to cut off the outskirts, or make inroads into. COASTS. borders.... [ Continue Reading ]
EASTWARD. toward the sun-rising.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE REST. An Assyrian inscription (now in the British Museum) records that Jehu paid tribute to Shalmaneser II, who in 842 B.C. defeated Hazael, king of Syria. Jehu bought Shalmaneser II off by giving him, as tribute, bars of silver and gold;. golden ladle and golden goblets and pitchers were among... [ Continue Reading ]
SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS. See note on Deuteronomy 31:16.... [ Continue Reading ]