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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — II Kings
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 90,514 words · 402 reading sections
2 Kings 10:7
2 Kings 10:7 Ver. 7. And it came to pass, when the letter came to them,.... They did not in the least hesitate, but immediately complied with the contents of it: that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons; which was the whole number of them: and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jezreel; as …
74 wordsSECTION 1822 Kings 10:8
2 Kings 10:8 Ver. 8. And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, they have brought the heads of the king's sons,.... Perhaps this messenger to Jehu came from the great men of Samaria themselves, to let him know that they had obeyed his orders: and he said, lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate…
197 wordsSECTION 1832 Kings 10:9
2 Kings 10:9 Ver. 9. And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people,.... Who were gathered together to this shocking sight, or on the above accounts: ye be righteous; having had no concern in taking off the heads of those men: behold, I conspired against my master, and sl…
163 wordsSECTION 1842 Kings 10:10
2 Kings 10:10 Ver. 10. Know now, that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spake concerning the house of Ahab,.... He would have them observe, that all this, and what else should follow of the same kind, were and would be brought about by the providence of God, according to d…
128 wordsSECTION 1852 Kings 10:11
2 Kings 10:11 Ver. 11. So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel,.... Which to do, and to justify himself in so doing, was the design of what he said in the preceding verses: and his great men; his ministers of state and counsellors, that advised him to, and abetted him in his idolatrous practice…
163 wordsSECTION 1862 Kings 10:12
2 Kings 10:12 Ver. 12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria,.... To make a clear riddance there of all that belonged to Ahab, as at Jezreel, and abolish idolatry there: and as he was at the shearing house in the way; or, "the house of the binding of the shepherds", who, in shearing their sheep, bind their le…
137 wordsSECTION 1872 Kings 10:13
2 Kings 10:13 Ver. 13. Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah,.... At the above place; these were the sons of his brethren, called his brethren, as Lot was called Abraham's brother, being his brother's son; for as for his brethren, they had been slain by the Arabians before he was made king, 2Ch 22:1, an…
153 wordsSECTION 1882 Kings 10:14
2 Kings 10:14 Ver. 14. And he said, take them alive,.... Gave orders to his guards to seize them, and make them captives: and they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house; where they washed the sheep when they sheered them;[even] forty and two men, neither left he any of them; they being, by t…
2,891 wordsSECTION 1892 Kings 11:1
2 Kings 11:1 INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 11 This chapter relates how that Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, being hid and preserved, when his grandmother murdered all the seed royal, after six years was produced, 2Ki 11:1, when Jehoiada the priest set a sufficient guard about him, and the king's house, and anointe…
314 wordsSECTION 1902 Kings 11:2
2 Kings 11:2 Ver. 2. But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram,.... Not by Athaliah, but another woman; for an high priest, as her husband was, would not have married the daughter of such an idolatrous woman, nor would she have married her to him: sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from a…
228 wordsSECTION 1912 Kings 11:3
2 Kings 11:3 Ver. 3. And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years,.... In the temple; not in the holy of holies, as Jarchi, but in a chamber of the priests and Levites, of which there were several in a temple, as Kimchi, and others; and the husband of Jehosheba, being high priest, had one of them for his…
197 wordsSECTION 1922 Kings 11:4
2 Kings 11:4 Ver. 4. And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard,.... This was the husband of Jehosheba, who was high priest, 2Ch 22:11 these rulers over hundreds were not those appointed over the people for civil affairs, as by the advice of Jethro, but ov…
254 wordsSECTION 1932 Kings 11:5
2 Kings 11:5 Ver. 5. And he commanded them, saying, this is the thing that ye shall do,.... These were the rulers over hundreds among the priests and Levites, and which he, as high priest, could command, and whom he could convene without suspicion, being such as he had a connection with, and were unarmed men: and for …
236 wordsSECTION 1942 Kings 11:6
2 Kings 11:6 Ver. 6. And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur,.... Generally thought by the Jews to be the eastern gate, so called, as they say, because such as were defiled were bid to depart, or go back, as this word signifies, and not enter the temple; it is called "the gate of the foundation", 2Ch 23:5 because…
175 wordsSECTION 1952 Kings 11:7
2 Kings 11:7 Ver. 7. And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath,.... The course that went out of service at the end of the sabbath; these were not suffered, not any of them, to go into the country, but were detained for the present purpose, and divided into two parts: even they shall keep the watch of the …
313 wordsSECTION 1962 Kings 11:8
2 Kings 11:8 Ver. 8. And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand,.... Afterwards given them, 2Ki 11:10, and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain; any strange man that was not of them, that came into the ranks in which they were formed, was to be put to death as a sp…
144 wordsSECTION 1972 Kings 11:9
2 Kings 11:9 Ver. 9. And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded,.... Of whom see 2Ki 11:4 and they took every man his men; everyone his hundred: that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath; both the courses, of which see 2Ki …
89 wordsSECTION 1982 Kings 11:10
2 Kings 11:10 Ver. 10. And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give King David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the Lord. Such as he had taken in war from his enemies, and had dedicated for the service of the temple, to defend it on occasion, and laid up there; those the priests gave to the ca…
87 wordsSECTION 1992 Kings 11:11
2 Kings 11:11 Ver. 11. And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king,.... As ordered, 2Ki 11:8 from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple from the northeast to the southeast: along by the altar and the temple: the altar of burnt offering, which stood in t…
64 wordsSECTION 2002 Kings 11:12
2 Kings 11:12 Ver. 12. And he brought forth the king's son,.... Out of the apartment in the temple where he had been brought up: and put the crown upon him; the crown royal, which seems to have been kept in the temple: and gave him the testimony; the book of the law, which he was to read in all his days, and accordi…
230 wordsSECTION 2012 Kings 11:13
2 Kings 11:13 Ver. 13. And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard, and of the people,.... Their acclamations and shouts at the coronation of the king; for by this time the people had some knowledge of the affair, and ran, and came flocking to see the new king, and express their joy on this occasion, and whom they …
1,439 wordsSECTION 2022 Kings 12:1
2 Kings 12:1 INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 12 In this chapter some account is given of the reign of Jehoash, that it was long, and the beginning of it good, during the life of Jehoiada, 2Ki 12:1 how urgent he was to have the temple repaired, and what methods were taken for that purpose, 2Ki 12:4, how meanly, as well as imp…
194 wordsSECTION 2032 Kings 12:2
2 Kings 12:2 Ver. 2. And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all his days,.... Worshipping the only true God, and ruling and walking according to the law of God: wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him; and so long as he observed his instructions, and as long as that priest lived, he reigned …
95 wordsSECTION 2042 Kings 12:3
2 Kings 12:3 Ver. 3. But the high places were not taken away,.... Used before the temple was built, or set up in Rehoboam's time, 1Ki 14:23 contrary to the law of God, which required that sacrifices should only be offered in the place the Lord chose to dwell in, De 12:4 the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in…
142 wordsSECTION 2052 Kings 12:4
2 Kings 12:4 Ver. 4. And Jehoash said to the priests,.... Being minded or having it in his heart, to repair the temple, as in 2Ch 24:4 not only because it was the sanctuary of the Lord, though that chiefly, but because it had been a sanctuary to him, where he was hid and preserved six years: all the money of the dedi…
271 wordsSECTION 2062 Kings 12:5
2 Kings 12:5 Ver. 5. Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance,.... Of those that were most known by them; for the priests had cities assigned them in several parts of the land, and they that dwelt with them in them, or in the parts adjacent to them, were best known by them; and they were sent int…
172 wordsSECTION 2072 Kings 12:6
2 Kings 12:6 Ver. 6. But it was so, that in the twenty and third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. Either the people being backward to pay in the money, or the priests converted it to their own use: or, however, were negligent of doing the work enjoined them by the king, eit…
75 wordsSECTION 2082 Kings 12:7
2 Kings 12:7 Ver. 7. Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests,.... The common priests, Jehoiada being high priest: and said unto them, why repair ye not the breaches of the house? in which they appeared to him very dilatory; the reason might be, the people were not forward to pay in the…
142 wordsSECTION 2092 Kings 12:8
2 Kings 12:8 Ver. 8. And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the people,.... And delivered up what they had: neither to repair the breaches of the house; being very willing to be stop both services, and especially since they seemed to be suspected.…
48 wordsSECTION 2102 Kings 12:9
2 Kings 12:9 Ver. 9. But Jehoiada the priest took a chest,.... By the commandment of the king, 2Ch 24:8, to put the money collected into, to prevent any fraud, or suspicion of any: and bored a hole in the lid of it; to drop the money into, by which means it could not be taken out without taking off the lid: and set …
296 wordsSECTION 2112 Kings 12:10
2 Kings 12:10 Ver. 10. And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest,.... Which might easily be guessed at by the number of the people which contributed: that the king's and the high priest came up; to the temple; the high priest did not choose to come alone, lest he should be suspected, but to …
183 wordsSECTION 2122 Kings 12:11
2 Kings 12:11 Ver. 11. And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the Lord,.... Who were appointed overseers of the workmen employed in the repairs of the temple; which overseers were laymen, and not priests, they being discharged from any conc…
142 wordsSECTION 2132 Kings 12:12
2 Kings 12:12 Ver. 12. And to masons, and hewers of stone,.... Which they cut out of the mountain, and the masons repaired the stone walls with: and to buy timber; felled in Lebanon: and hewed stone; fitted for building with: to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord; where both timber and stone were wanting:…
87 wordsSECTION 2142 Kings 12:13
2 Kings 12:13 Ver. 13. Howbeit there were not made for the house of the Lord, bowls of silver,.... Either to hold the blood of the sacrifices, or the drink offerings of wine: snuffers; to trim the lamps; or, as Jarchi and other writers, both Jewish and Christian, musical instruments: basins; vessels to sprinkle the …
162 wordsSECTION 2152 Kings 12:14
2 Kings 12:14 Ver. 14. But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord. They took care that the workmen should first be paid for the repairs of the temple. 2 Kings 12:15Ver. 15. Moreover, they reckoned not with the men into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on the workm…
820 wordsSECTION 2162 Kings 13:1
2 Kings 13:1 INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 13 This chapter gives an account of the wicked reign of Jehoahaz son of Jehu king of Israel, and of the low estate he was brought into by the Syrians, 2Ki 13:1, and of the reign of his son Joash, 2Ki 13:10, and of the sickness and death of Elisha; of the visit Joash made him in hi…
259 wordsSECTION 2172 Kings 13:2
2 Kings 13:2 Ver. 2. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord,.... Committed idolatry: and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; worshipping the golden calves: he departed not therefrom; from the worship of them.…
49 wordsSECTION 2182 Kings 13:3
2 Kings 13:3 Ver. 3. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel,.... They doing as their kings did: and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all [their] days; the word "their" should not be supplied, since it was not true that Israel was d…
112 wordsSECTION 2192 Kings 13:4
2 Kings 13:4 Ver. 4. And Jehoahaz besought the Lord, and the Lord hearkened unto him,.... He did not apply in his distress to the calves he worshipped, but to the Lord; who had a regard to his prayer, not for his sake, or any righteousness of his, or even his repentance and humiliation, which were only external; but f…
123 wordsSECTION 2202 Kings 13:5
2 Kings 13:5 Ver. 5. And the Lord gave Israel a saviour,.... Not an angel sent by him, nor a captain raised up among them, nor the prophet Elisha, who predicted their deliverance, nor Jehoahaz himself, but his son Joash, 2Ki 13:25 so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; were not in subjection to the…
87 wordsSECTION 2212 Kings 13:6
2 Kings 13:6 Ver. 6. Nevertheless, they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin, but walked therein,.... Continued to worship the calves still, which was an instance of great ingratitude; the Syriac and Arabic versions read, "he departed not"; Jehoahaz the king: and there remained …
78 wordsSECTION 2222 Kings 13:7
2 Kings 13:7 Ver. 7. Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen,.... This is to be connected with 2Ki 13:4, the verses 2Ki 12:5, being to be read in a parenthesis, as in our version, and to be understood of the king of Syria, who left no more to the king of Israel, not of the people of the land,…
157 wordsSECTION 2232 Kings 13:8
2 Kings 13:8 Ver. 8. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might,.... Which he exerted against the Syrians, being a man of courage, though not successful, because the Lord was not with him, but against him: are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? where t…
72 wordsSECTION 2242 Kings 13:9
2 Kings 13:9 Ver. 9. And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers,.... Died, as they did: and they buried him in Samaria; where Omri, and all the kings of Israel, that descended from him, were buried: and Joash his son reigned in his stead; of whom a short account is given in the following verses.…
55 wordsSECTION 2252 Kings 13:10
2 Kings 13:10 Ver. 10. In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah, began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria,.... But inasmuch as his father began to reign in the twenty third of Joash, and reigned seventeen years, 2Ki 13:1 this king must begin to reign in the thirty ninth or fortiet…
133 wordsSECTION 2262 Kings 13:11
2 Kings 13:11 Ver. 11. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord,.... As his father did, and his character is described in the same words, see 2Ki 13:2.…
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2 Kings 13:12 Ver. 12. And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did,.... Though none of his acts as yet are recorded, but his sinful ones: and his might; or valiant actions in war with the Syrians, 2Ki 13:25, and wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah; of which there is an account in the followi…
89 wordsSECTION 2282 Kings 13:13
2 Kings 13:13 Ver. 13. And Joash slept with his fathers,.... Or died: and Jeroboam sat upon his throne; who was his son; it is not said that he began to sit on it, or to reign, nor to reign in his father's stead; hence it is concluded, as by Kimchi and others, that his father set him on his throne in his lifetime; an…
135 wordsSECTION 2292 Kings 13:14
2 Kings 13:14 Ver. 14. Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died,.... The prophets do not live for ever; this sickness was unto death; Elisha died, and was not translated as Elijah was: and Joash the king came down unto him; from his palace to the prophet's house, to visit him in his sickness; which …
192 wordsSECTION 2302 Kings 13:15
2 Kings 13:15 Ver. 15. And Elisha said unto him, take bow and arrows,.... The usual instruments of war in those days: and he took unto him bow and arrows; which though they might not be had in the house of the prophet, he could have some from his guards that attended him.…
54 wordsSECTION 2312 Kings 13:16
2 Kings 13:16 Ver. 16. And he said unto the king of Israel, put thine hand upon the bow, and he put his hand upon it,.... His left hand: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands; on both his hands, which were put, the one on the bow, the other on the arrow {m}; hereby signifying, that though the king would draw…
110 wordsSECTION 2322 Kings 13:17
2 Kings 13:17 Ver. 17. And he said, open the window eastward,.... Syria lying east of the land of Israel, as the Jewish commentators in general observe, and for which they quote Isa 9:12, but it lay northeast, or rather more to the north; wherefore this may respect the eastward part of the land of Israel, which the Sy…
1,510 wordsSECTION 2332 Kings 14:1
2 Kings 14:1 INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 14 In this chapter we have the good reign of Amaziah king of Judah, his victories over the Edomites, and war with Jehoash king of Israel, by whom he was taken, who died quickly after, 2Ki 14:1, but Amaziah lived fifteen years afterwards, and was slain by a conspiracy against him, …
175 wordsSECTION 2342 Kings 14:2
2 Kings 14:2 Ver. 2. He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem,.... Fourteen years contemporary with Joash king of Israel, who reigned sixteen years, 2Ki 13:10 and fifteen after him, 2Ki 14:17, and his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem; of whom we n…
62 wordsSECTION 2352 Kings 14:3
2 Kings 14:3 Ver. 3. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord,..... At least externally, and at the beginning of his reign: yet not like David his father; not with a perfect heart, with that sincerity and uprightness as he did, see 2Ch 25:2, he did according to all things as Joash his father did; who…
78 wordsSECTION 2362 Kings 14:4
2 Kings 14:4 Ver. 4. Howbeit the high places were not taken away,.... Though he first did that which was right before God; nor did his father take them away; see 2Ki 12:3.…
35 wordsSECTION 2372 Kings 14:5
2 Kings 14:5 Ver. 5. And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was strengthened in his hand,.... That he was well settled on the throne, and had a share in the affection of the people, and the idolatry and murder his father had committed were worn off of the minds of the people, and the friends of the conspirators a…
101 wordsSECTION 2382 Kings 14:6
2 Kings 14:6 Ver. 6. But the children of the murderers he slew not,.... Which is an instance of his clemency and goodness, and of his strict regard to justice, and to the law of God; though he might fear, these, being spared, would one time or other revenge their fathers' deaths; according to that which is written in…
97 wordsSECTION 2392 Kings 14:7
2 Kings 14:7 Ver. 7. He slew of Edom in the valley of Salt ten thousand,.... Of which valley, See Gill on "2Sa 8:13", the Edomites having revolted from Judah in the days of Joram, 2Ki 8:20. Amaziah undertook to reduce them with an army of 300,000 choice men; and, besides these, hired also of Israel 100,000 valiant men…
322 wordsSECTION 2402 Kings 14:8
2 Kings 14:8 Ver. 8. Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu king of Israel,.... The occasion of it was this, when Amaziah dismissed the hired soldiers of Israel they were displeased, and fell upon the cities of Judea from Samaria to Bethhoron, slew 3000 men, and took much spoil, 2C…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.