Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
A.M.
2 Kings 4:18,31-35 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out …
sojourn
Genesis 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt …
Genesis 26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that …
Genesis 47:4 They said morever to Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; …
Ruth 1:1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there …
the Lord
Genesis 41:25,28,32 And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God has …
Leviticus 26:19,20,26 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven …
Deuteronomy 28:22-24,38-40 The LORD shall smite you with a consumption, and with a fever, and …
1 Kings 17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said …
1 Kings 18:2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
Psalm 105:16 Moreover he called for a famine on the land: he broke the whole staff of bread.
Psalm 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Haggai 1:11 And I called for a drought on the land, and on the mountains, and …
Luke 21:11,22 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences…
Acts 11:28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the …
called for a famine
Jeremiah 25:29 For, see, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my …
seven years
Genesis 41:27 And the seven thin and ill favored cows that came up after them are …
2 Samuel 21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after …
2 Samuel 24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven …
Luke 4:25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days …
And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
the king As it appears not likely that the king would hold conversation with a leprous man; or, that, knowing Gehazi had been dismissed with the highest disgrace from the prophet's service, he would talk with him concerning his late master; some have supposed that this happened before the cleansing of Naaman. But it agrees better with the chronology to consider it as having taken place after that event; the king, probably, having an insatiable curiosity to know the private history of a man who had done such astonishing things. As to the circumstances of Gehazi's disease, he might overlook that, and converse with him, keeping at a reasonable distance, as nothing but actual contact could defile.
Gehazi
2 Kings 5:20-27 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my …
2 Kings 7:3,10 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and …
Tell
Matthew 2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently …
Luke 9:9 And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I …
Luke 23:8 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous …
John 9:27 He answered them, I have told you already, and you did not hear: …
Acts 24:24 And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which …
all the great
2 Kings 2:14,20-22,24 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the …
2 Kings 3:14-16 And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely…
2 Kings 4:3-6,16,17 Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, …
2 Kings 5:14,27 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according …
2 Kings 6:6,9-12,17-20,32 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed him the place. …
2 Kings 7:1,16-20 Then Elisha said, Hear you the word of the LORD; Thus said the LORD…
And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
he had restored
2 Kings 4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, …
behold, the woman
Ruth 2:3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: …
Esther 5:14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows …
Esther 6:11,12 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, …
Proverbs 16:9 A man's heart devises his way: but the LORD directs his steps.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, …
Matthew 10:29,30 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not …
Acts 8:27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch …
Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
My lord
2 Kings 6:12,26 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, …
1 Samuel 26:17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this your voice, my son …
Psalm 145:1 I will extol you, my God, O king; and I will bless your name for ever and ever.
And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
officer. or, eunuch
2 Kings 9:32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? …
Genesis 37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of …
1 Chronicles 28:1 And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes…
Restore all
Deuteronomy 22:2 And if your brother be not near to you, or if you know him not, then …
Judges 11:13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers …
2 Samuel 9:7 And David said to him, Fear not: for I will surely show you kindness …
Proverbs 16:7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be …
Proverbs 16:7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be …
Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: …
And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
Damascus
Genesis 14:15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, …
1 Kings 11:24 And he gathered men to him, and became captain over a band, when …
Isaiah 7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; …
Ben-hadad
2 Kings 6:24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered …
1 Kings 15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures …
1 Kings 20:1,34 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and …
The man of God
2 Kings 1:9,10 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And …
2 Kings 2:15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw …
2 Kings 6:12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, …
Deuteronomy 33:1 And this is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed …
1 Kings 13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of …
is come
Judges 16:2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. And they …
Acts 17:6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brothers …
And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
Hazael
1 Kings 19:15 And the LORD said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness …
Take
2 Kings 5:5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter to …
1 Samuel 9:7 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall …
1 Kings 14:3 And take with you ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, …
enquire
2 Kings 1:2,6 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that …
2 Kings 3:11-13 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that …
1 Kings 14:1-4 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick…
Luke 13:23 Then said one to him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said to them,
Acts 16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
Hazael
1 Kings 19:15 And the LORD said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness …
with him [heb] in his hand
2 Kings 5:5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter to …
Thy son Ben-hadad
2 Kings 6:21 And the king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father, …
2 Kings 13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash …
2 Kings 16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, …
1 Samuel 25:8 Ask your young men, and they will show you. Why let the young men …
Philemon 1:14 But without your mind would I do nothing; that your benefit should …
And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.
Thou mayest
1 Kings 22:15 So he came to the king. And the king said to him, Micaiah, shall …
the Lord
2 Kings 8:13 And Hazael said, But what, is your servant a dog, that he should …
Genesis 41:39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, For as much as God has showed you all …
Jeremiah 38:21 But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD has showed me:
Ezekiel 11:25 Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that the LORD …
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he reveals his secret to …
Amos 7:1,4,7 Thus has the Lord GOD showed to me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers …
Amos 8:1 Thus has the Lord GOD showed to me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
Zechariah 1:20 And the LORD showed me four carpenters.
Revelation 22:1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, …
he shall surely die
2 Kings 8:15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and …
2 Kings 1:4,16 Now therefore thus said the LORD, You shall not come down from that …
Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not …
Ezekiel 18:13 Has given forth on usury, and has taken increase: shall he then live? …
And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
stedfastly [heb] and set it
wept
Genesis 45:2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
Psalm 119:136 Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law.
Jeremiah 4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes …
Jeremiah 9:1,18 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears…
Jeremiah 13:17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places …
Jeremiah 14:17 Therefore you shall say this word to them; Let my eyes run down with …
Luke 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
John 11:35 Jesus wept.
Acts 20:19,31 Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, …
Romans 9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Philippians 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even …
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
my Lord
2 Kings 4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
1 Kings 18:13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD…
the evil
2 Kings 10:32,33 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote …
2 Kings 12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took …
2 Kings 13:3,7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered …
Amos 1:3,4 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for …
dash
2 Kings 15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts …
Psalm 137:8,9 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, …
Isaiah 13:16,18 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; …
Hosea 10:14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among your people, and all your fortresses …
Hosea 13:16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: …
Amos 1:3-5,13 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for …
Nahum 3:10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children …
And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
a dog
1 Samuel 17:43 And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me …
2 Samuel 9:8 And he bowed himself, and said, What is your servant, that you should …
Psalm 22:16,20 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed …
Isaiah 56:10,11 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb …
Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast you your pearls …
Philippians 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, …
he should do
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: …
Matthew 26:33-35 Peter answered and said to him, Though all men shall be offended …
The Lord
2 Kings 8:10 And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You may certainly recover: …
1 Kings 19:15 And the LORD said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness …
Micah 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when …
So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
And it came
2 Kings 8:13 And Hazael said, But what, is your servant a dog, that he should …
1 Samuel 16:12,13 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and with of a …
1 Samuel 24:4-7,13 And the men of David said to him, Behold the day of which the LORD …
1 Samuel 26:9-11 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth …
1 Kings 11:26-37 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's …
on the morrow
Psalm 36:4 He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is …
Micah 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when …
that he took a thick cloth There is a considerable degree of ambiguity in this passage. The pronoun [he] is generally referred to Hazael; but Dr. Geddes and others are decidedly of the opinion, that we should understand by it {Ben-hadad}; who, encouraged by the favourable answer of Elisha, as reported to Hazael, adopted a violent remedy to all the heat of his fever, and put over his face the {keever, or fly-net}. See note on
1 Samuel 19:13 And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow …
so that he died
2 Kings 9:24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between …
2 Kings 15:10-14,25,30 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him …
1 Kings 15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, …
1 Kings 16:10,18 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and …
Isaiah 33:1 Woe to you that spoil, and you were not spoiled; and deal treacherously…
Hazael
2 Kings 8:13 And Hazael said, But what, is your servant a dog, that he should …
1 Kings 19:15 And the LORD said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness …
And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
in the way
2 Kings 3:2,3 And he worked evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, …
1 Kings 22:52,53 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of …
the house
2 Kings 9:7,8 And you shall smite the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge …
2 Kings 21:3,13 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had …
2 Chronicles 21:13 But have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made …
Micah 6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house …
the daughter
2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and …
1 Kings 21:25 But there was none like to Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness …
2 Chronicles 18:1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and joined affinity …
2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said …
2 Chronicles 21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the …
2 Chronicles 22:1-4 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king …
his wife
Genesis 6:1-5 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the …
Deuteronomy 7:3,4 Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall …
1 Kings 11:1-5 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter …
Nehemiah 13:25,26 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of …
Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.
for David
2 Kings 19:34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake, and for …
2 Samuel 7:12,13,15 And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, …
1 Kings 11:36 And to his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have …
1 Kings 15:4,5 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp …
2 Chronicles 21:7 However, the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of …
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin …
Isaiah 37:35 For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake, and for my …
Jeremiah 33:25,26 Thus said the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and …
Hosea 11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return …
Luke 1:32,33 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and …
light [heb] candle, or lamp
1 Kings 11:36 And to his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have …
In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
Zair Zair is supposed by Calmet and others to be the same as Seir, the country of Seir the Horite, inhabited by the Edomites or Idumeans. Probably the former was a dialectical pronunciation of the latter.
Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
slept
1 Kings 2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
1 Kings 11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of …
1 Kings 14:20,31 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and …
Ahaziah
1 Chronicles 3:11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
2 Chronicles 21:1,17 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers …
2 Chronicles 25:23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son …
2 Kings 22:1,6 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned …
Azariah
In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
Two and twenty In the parallel passage of Chronicles, it is said, `forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign;' but this is evidently a mistake, as it makes the son two years older than his own father! For his father began to reign when he was thirty-two years old, and reigned eight years, and so died, being forty years old.
2 Kings 8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned …
See note on
2 Chronicles 22:2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he …
2 Kings 9:21-27 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram …
2 Chronicles 22:5-8 He walked also after their counsel…
Athaliah
2 Kings 11:1,13-16 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, …
daughter. or, grand-daughter
2 Kings 8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house …
And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
A.M.
2 Kings 3:7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The …
2 Kings 9:15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds …
1 Kings 22:4 And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? …
2 Chronicles 18:2,3,31 And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab …
2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said …
2 Chronicles 22:5 He walked also after their counsel…
Hazael
2 Kings 8:12,13 And Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? And he answered, Because I know …
1 Kings 19:17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapes the sword of Hazael …
Ramoth-gilead
Joshua 21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to …
1 Kings 4:13 The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of …
1 Kings 22:3 And the king of Israel said to his servants, Know you that Ramoth …
And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
