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**Ben-hadad.** Perhaps the son of the Ben-hadad of [1 Kings 15:18](../../../kjv/1-kings/15/18) .
**host** = force.
**thirty and two.** Probably vassal princes. Compare [1 Kings 20:24](../../../kjv/1-kings/20/24) .

**said.** A special various reading ( *Sevir,* App-34 ) reads "they said".

**children** = sons.

**search:** as from the top: i.e. ransack.

**Let not him.** Figure of speech *Paroemia* . App-6 .

**message** = word. Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for the message contained.
**pavilions** = tents.

**behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos* . App-6 .
**Hast. ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .

**young men** = the servants, or esquires.

**return of the year:** the spring. Compare [2 Samuel 11:1](../../../kjv/2-samuel/11/1) .

**captains** = governors, or pashas.

**Aphek.** Probably east of the Sea of Galilee.

**were numbered** = enrolled themselves. flocks = newborn kids. Hebrew. *hasaph.* Occurs only here.

**man of God** = a prophet. See App-49 .
**ye shall know.** Septuagint reads "so shalt thou know". Compare [1 Kings 20:13](../../../kjv/1-kings/20/13) above.

**me** = my soul. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .
**brother:** i.e. a brother-king.

**did diligently observe.** Hebrew divined and hasted. Figure of speech *Hendiadys* ( App-6 ) = quickly divined.
**any thing would come.** These italics are wrongly supplied, not knowing the two readings of E. and W. recensions, caused by a different division of words. The E. recension reads "and they pressed [to find out] whether it was from him and said". The W. recension reads" and they pressed it out from him, and they said": i.e. they wanted to know whether he confirmed the word of his own accord.

**streets** = broad ways, or bazaars.
**as** = according as.
**said.** Figure of speech *Ellipsis* ( App-6 ) to be supplied by repetition from previous clause.

**man.** Hebrew. *ish* . Josephus identifies him with Micaiah ([1 Kings 22:8](../../../kjv/1-kings/22/8) ).

**ashes, &c.** = bandage. inheritance).
**Jezreel.** In the plain of Esdraelon.

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