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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 6:1-33

The incident of the swimming of the iron axe head is interesting, but quite secondary. The chief value of the story lies in its revelation of the influence Elisha was exerting in the nation. The growth of the school of the prophets was most remarkable. It was necessary that they should enlarge their borders, as they had not room to dwell. Their relation to Elisha is clearly manifest. In an hour of national peril he rose above the gentler works which were chiefly characteristic of his... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 6:1-33

SECTION 8. The Wonder-working Ministry Of Elisha (2 Kings 4:1 to 2 Kings 8:15 ) It will be noted that from this point on, until 2 Kings 8:15, no king of Israel is mentioned by name, even though, for example, Naaman’s name is given in chapter 5, and Ben-hadad, the king of Aram, is mentioned in 2 Kings 6:24; 2 Kings 8:7. (The reign of Jehoram then recommences in 2 Kings 8:16). It is clear that the prophetic author was concerned at this point that our attention should be taken away from the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 6:8-23

Israel’s One Man Intelligence Service And The Failed Attempt To Abduct Him (2 Kings 6:8-23 ). The king of Aram was puzzled because he kept raiding Israel only to discover each time that the king of Israel appeared to have advanced information, and thus had troops ready to forestall him. He could only assume that it was because he was being betrayed. But his servants, presumably obtaining their knowledge through their intelligence service, explained to him that it was because there was a... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 6:1-33

2 Kings 6:1-Isaiah : . An Axehead Swims. Elisha and the Syrians at Dothan.— In several minor miracles Elisha is always represented as working them not by his word, but by some expedient. Thus he heals the miscarrying waters by salt, and the pot by meal, and recovers the axehead by casting a stick into the water.The prophet appears in the second narrative as the moving spirit in the Syrian war. Whenever the king of Syria devised an ambush ( 2 Kings 6:8, with a slight alteration of reading),... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 6:18

When they came down to him; either in the city, into which they easily got admission, when they declared that the only end of their coming was to take Elisha; or in the field without the city, whither he went to meet them. He smote them with blindness; not with a total blindness, that they could see nothing, for then they would not have followed him; but with a partial blindness, that they could not distinctly discern the man they sought; which might be by some alteration made by God in their... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 6:1-33

Now Naaman was the captain of the host of Syria, he was a great man with his master, he was honorable, because the LORD had actually helped him to subdue many nations. He was a mighty man and very brave, but he was a leper. And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and brought away captives out of the land of Israel and a little maid happened to be the servant of his wife. And she said, It's too bad your husband isn't with the prophet there in Israel, because he could heal him of his leprosy.... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 6:1-33

2 Kings 6:1 . Sons of the prophets. See on 2 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 2:5. Their number had evidently encreased, though in evil times. Their college was a plain home-built house. 2 Kings 6:5 . Borrowed. שׂאל , this root, as in Exodus 11:0., will not bear any other sense than to borrow or to ask. The loss of an axe was almost irreparable, where steel forges were scarce and distant. The recovery of this axe by a miracle was a special mark of the divine favour, towards the new enlargement of the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Kings 6:8-23

2 Kings 6:8-23Then the King of Syria warred against Israel.Elisha at DothanSeeing the invisible! Here is the young business man. He spends his days in a close and musty counting-room, casting up interminable figures, or behind a distasteful counter, selling goods. But he sees something more than the ledger and the counting-house and the dry goods. He sees a beautiful home, and a warm fireside, and a happy family, and an easy competence for old age. It is this glimpse of the invisible that makes... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 6:18

2Ki 6:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. Ver. 18. And he smote them with blindness. ] Scotomate, non αορασια sed ακρισια not with bodily blindness, but a dizziness and defect in their judgments, or a dazzling and deluding their senses, that seeing they saw, and yet perceived not. The like befell those sodomites in Gen 19:11 God who made the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Kings 6:18

Smite this people: Confound their sight, so that they may not know what they see; and so mistake one place for another. The word sanverim, rendered blindness, occurs only here and in Genesis 19:11 - see note. Deuteronomy 28:28, Job 5:14, Zechariah 12:4, John 9:39, John 12:40, Acts 13:11, Romans 11:7 Reciprocal: 1 Kings 13:4 - his hand 2 Kings 3:23 - This is blood 2 Kings 4:33 - prayed 2 Kings 6:17 - open his eyes Job 38:15 - from Jeremiah 36:26 - but Hosea 9:8 - with Luke 24:16 - General... read more