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**whose son.** Compare [2 Kings 4:35](../../../kjv/2-kings/4/35) .
**famine** = the famine, which had already begun. Probably the same as [2 Kings 4:38](../../../kjv/2-kings/4/38) . Occasion is not determined by the text, but, [2 Kings 8:3](../../../kjv/2-kings/8/3) takes up the history at the end of the seven years.
**it shall also come** = it is come.
**seven years:** i.e. "[to last] seven years".

**man of God.** See App-49 .

**all the great things.** See note on [2 Kings 2:15](../../../kjv/2-kings/2/15) .

**restored a dead body.** Compare [2 Kings 4:35](../../../kjv/2-kings/4/35) .
**behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos* .
**for . . . for.** Hebrew. *'al* = for [to call attention to].

**fruits** = produce.

**Hazael.** One of Ben-hadad's servants.
**present.** It does not say that Elisha accepted it.

**every good** = every kind of. Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Genus). App-6 .

**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 notes on [Genesis 2:17](../../../kjv/genesis/2/17) with [Genesis 26:28](../../../kjv/genesis/26/28) .

**he:** i.e. Hazael.
**ashamed.** The thought of murder came into his mind.

**the evil.** Described in [2 Kings 10:32](../../../kjv/2-kings/10/32) ; 2Ki 12:17 ; [2 Kings 13:3](../../../kjv/2-kings/13/3) , [2 Kings 13:22](../../../kjv/2-kings/13/22) .[Hosea 10:14](../../../kjv/hosea/10/14) .[Amos 1:3](../../../kjv/amos/1/3) , [Amos 1:4](../../../kjv/amos/1/4) . Hebrew. *ra'a'* . App-44 .
**children** = sons.
**their children** = little ones. Hebrew. *'ul* .
**with child.** Hebrew. *harah* .

**a dog.** Compare [1 Samuel 17:43](../../../kjv/1-samuel/17/43) ; [1 Samuel 24:14](../../../kjv/1-samuel/24/14) . [2 Samuel 9:8](../../../kjv/2-samuel/9/8) .

**surely recover.** See note on [2 Kings 8:10](../../../kjv/2-kings/8/10) . A false report.

**it came to pass.** The inscriptions of Shal-manezer II agree with this. The name of Jehu appears on them with Hazael's.

**Jehoshaphat being then king.** Jehoram associated with him in Joram's filth year, and reigned solely in Joram's sixth year. Compare [2 Kings 9:29](../../../kjv/2-kings/9/29) . Joram (of Ahab) began in Jehoshaphat's eighteenth year ([2 Kings 3:1](../../../kjv/2-kings/3/1) ). His fifth year is therefore Jehoshaphat's twenty-third year, when Jehoram is associated with him as king, in the third year before his death. See App-50 .
**began to reign:** i.e. in consort with his father.

**as** = according as.
**daughter of Ahab.** Compare [2 Kings 8:26](../../../kjv/2-kings/8/26) . See App-55 .
**did evil.** Compare [2 Chronicles 21:2-4](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/21/2-4) .

**as He promised.** Compare [1 Samuel 7:13](../../../kjv/1-samuel/7/13) .
**light.** Compare [1 Kings 11:36](../../../kjv/1-kings/11/36) . See note on [Genesis 15:17](../../../kjv/genesis/15/17) . Hebrew. *ner* . Found only four times, and always of David ([2 Samuel 21:17](../../../kjv/2-samuel/21/17) . [1 Kings 11:36](../../../kjv/1-kings/11/36) . [1 Kings 8:19](../../../kjv/1-kings/8/19) . [2 Chronicles 21:7](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/21/7) ).
**and to his children.** Many codices, and five early printed editions, read "for his children": i.e. sons.

**Edom revolted.** Compare [2 Chronicles 21:8](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/21/8) with [1 Kings 22:47](../../../kjv/1-kings/22/47) , and see above ([2 Kings 3:9](../../../kjv/2-kings/3/9) ).

**the people:** i.e. of Judah.

**Yet Edom, &c.** The success of Edom accounted for from the end of [2 Kings 8:21](../../../kjv/2-kings/8/21) , and [Genesis 27:40](../../../kjv/genesis/27/40) .
**this day.** Written therefore before the captivity of Judah.
**Then Libnah revolted.** Compare [2 Chronicles 21:10](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/21/10) . Lib-nah was a city of the priests ([Joshua 21:13](../../../kjv/joshua/21/13) ), and Jehoram with his wife and sons had "broken up" the Temple worship ([2 Chronicles 24:7](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/24/7) ). The *priests* therefore, headed by Jehoiada ([2 Chronicles 23:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/23/1) ), led this revolt, and were afterwards active in repairing the house of the Lord ([2 Chronicles 24:1-14](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/24/1-14) ).

**the rest.** Compare [2 Chronicles 21](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/21) .
**Joram** = Jehoram.
**are they not . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .

**slept with his fathers.** See note on [Deuteronomy 31:16](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/31/16) .
**Ahaziah his son:** i.e. his youngest son; all the rest being slain. See [2 Chronicles 21:17](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/21/17) ; [2 Chronicles 22:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/22/1) ; and App-55 .

**Two and twenty years.** See note on [2 Chronicles 22:2](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/22/2) .
**Ahaziah.** Note that Ahaziah, Joash, and Amaziah, omitted in [Matthew 1:8](../../../kjv/matthew/1/8) , all died violent deaths ( 2Ki 9:27 ; [2 Kings 12:20](../../../kjv/2-kings/12/20) ; [2 Kings 14:19](../../../kjv/2-kings/14/19) ).
**daughter.** Put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Genus), for grand-daughter; and even for successors not in descent by blood.

**he went with Joram.** His uncle.
**Ramoth-gilead.** It was then in the hands of Israel, but threatened by Syria. Compare [2 Kings 9:14](../../../kjv/2-kings/9/14) .

**Ramah** = Ramoth-gilead.

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