After seven years’ famine foretold by Eliseus, the Sunamitess returning home, recovereth her lands, and revenues. Eliseus foresheweth the death of Benadad, king of Syria, and the reign of Hazael. Joram’s wicked reign in Juda. He dieth, and his son Ochozias succeedeth. 8:1.And Eliseus spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying: Arise, and go thou, and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst find: for the Lord hath called a famine, and it shall come upon the land seven years.
After seuen yeares famine fortold by Eliseus, the Sumanite Woman returning home, recouereth her landes and reuenewes. 7. Eliseus forsheweth the death of Benadad king of Syria, and cruel reigne of Hazael. 16. Ioram reigning in Iuda, the Idumeans reuolt from him. also Lobna. 23. He dieth, and his sonne Ochozias succeedeth.
1Or Eliseo disse alla donna, di cui avea risuscitato il figliuolo: Su via, vattene tu, e la tua famiglia, dovunque troverai commodo fuora del tuo paese: perocché il Signore ha chiamata la fame, ed ella verrà per sette anni sopra questa terra.AND Eliseus spake to the woman, whose sonne he restored to life, saying: Arise, goe thou and thy house, and soiourne whersoeuer thou shalt finde: for our Lord hath called a famine, and it shal come vpon the land seuen yeares.Eliseus autem locutus est ad mulierem cujus vivere fecerat filium, dicens: Surge, vade tu et domus tua, et peregrinare ubicumque repereris: vocavit enim Dominus famem, et veniet super terram septem annis. 2And she arose, and did according to the word of the man of God: and going with her household, she sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.Ed ella si mosse, e fece secondo quello, che le avea detto l'uom di Dio: e andò colla sua famiglia pellegrinando nella terra de' Filistei per molto tempo.Who arose, & did according to the word of the man of God: & going with her houshould, she soiourned in the land of the Philistijms many dayes.Quæ surrexit, et fecit juxta verbum hominis Dei: et vadens cum domo sua, peregrinata est in terra Philisthiim diebus multis. 3And when the seven years were ended, the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines, and she went forth to speak to the king for her house and for her lands.E finiti i sette anni, tornò la donna dal paese de' Filistei: e andò a ricorrere al re, per riaver la sua casa, e i suoi poderi.And when the seuen yeares were ended, the woman returned out of the Land of the Philisthijms: and she went forth to speake to the king for her house, and for her landes.Cumque finiti essent anni septem, reversa est mulier de terra Philisthiim: et egressa est ut interpellaret regem pro domo sua, et pro agris suis. 4And the king talked with Giezi, the servant of the man of God, saying: Tell me all the great things that Eliseus hath done.Or il re discorreva con Giezi servo dell'uom di Dio, e dicevagli: Raccontami tutte le cose grandi fatta da Eliseo.And the king spake with Giezi the seruant of the man of God, saying: Tel me al the meruelous thinges that Eliseus hath done.Rex autem loquebatur cum Giezi puero viri Dei, dicens: Narra mihi omnia magnalia quæ fecit Eliseus. 5And when he was telling the king how he had raised one dead to life, the woman appeared, whose son he had restored to life, crying to the king for her house, and her lands. And Giezi said: My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Eliseus raised to life.E mentre quegli raccontava a lui come (Eliseo) avea risuscitato il morto, comparve la donna, il di cui figliuolo era stato risuscitato, la quale gridava al re per ragione della sua casa, e de' suoi poderi: e Giezi disse: Questa, o re mio signore, è quella donna, e questo è il suo figliuolo risuscitato da Eliseo.And when he had told the king how he had raysed a dead man, the woman appeared, whose sonne he had reuiued, crying to the king for her house, and her landes. And Giezi sayd: My lord king, this is the woman, and this is her sonne, whom Eliseus raysed.Cumque ille narraret regi quomodo mortuum suscitasset, apparuit mulier cujus vivificaverat filium, clamans ad regem pro domo sua, et pro agris suis. Dixitque Giezi: Domine mi rex, hæc est mulier, et hic est filius ejus quem suscitavit Eliseus.
6And the king asked the woman: and she told him. And the king appointed her an eunuch, saying: Restore her all that is hers, and all the revenues of the lands, from the day that she left the land to this present.E il re interrogò la donna, la quale gliene fece il racconto. E il re mandò con lei un eunuco, dicendo: Restituisci a lei tutto il suo, e tutte le entrate de' poderi dal di, in cui ella lasciò il paese fino al presente.And the king asked the woman: who told him. And the king gaue her an eunuch, saying: Restore her al thinges that are hers, and al the reuenewes of the landes, from the day, that she leaft the land vntil this present.Et interrogavit rex mulierem: quæ narravit ei. Deditque ei rex eunuchum unum, dicens: Restitue ei omnia quæ sua sunt, et universos reditus agrorum, a die qua reliquit terram usque ad præsens. 7Eliseus also came to Damascus, and Benadad, king of Syria was sick; and they told him, saying: The man of God is come hither.Andò ancora Eliseo verso Damasco, e Benadad re della Siria era ammalato: e gli fu portata la nuova, e gli dissero: L'uomo di Dio è venuto in queste parti.Eliseus also came to Damascus, and Benadad the king of Syria was sicke: and they told him, saying: The man of God cometh hither.Venit quoque Eliseus Damascum, et Benadad rex Syriæ ægrotabat: nuntiaveruntque ei, dicentes: Venit vir Dei huc. 8And the king said to Hazael: Take with thee presents, and go to meet the man of God, and consult the Lord by him, saying: Can I recover of this my illness?E il re disse ad Hazael: Prendi teco dei regali, e va incontro all'uom di Dio, e consulta per mezzo suo il Signore, e domandagli s'io possa guarire a questo mio male.And the king sayd to Hazael: Take with thee presentes, and goe to meete the man of God, and consult the Lord by him, saying: Can I escape of this myne infirmitie?Et ait rex ad Hazaël: Tolle tecum munera, et vade in occursum viri Dei, et consule Dominum per eum, dicens: Si evadere potero de infirmitate mea hac ? 9And Hazael went to meet him, taking with him presents, and all the good things of Damascus, the burdens of forty camels. And when he stood before him, he said: Thy son, Benadad, the king of Syria, hath sent me to thee, saying: Can I recover of this my illness?Hazaele pertanto andò incontro a lui, portando seco in regalo tutte le cose più squisite di Damasco sopra quaranta cammelli carichi: e presentatosi a lui, gli disse: Il tuo figlio Benadad re di Siria mi ha mandato a te per dirti: Potrò io guarire da questa mia malattia?Hazael therfore went to meete him, hauing with him presentes, and al good thinges of Damascus, the lodes of fourtie camels. And when he stood before him, he sayd: Thy sonne Benadad the king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying: Can I recouer of this mine infirmitie?Ivit igitur Hazaël in occursum ejus, habens secum munera, et omnia bona Damasci, onera quadraginta camelorum. Cumque stetisset coram eo, ait: Filius tuus Benadad rex Syriæ misit me ad te, dicens: Si sanari potero de infirmitate mea hac ?
10And Eliseus said to him: Go tell him: Thou shalt recover: but the Lord hath shewed me that he shall surely die.Ed Eliseo gli disse: Va, e digli: Tu guarirai; ma il Signore mi ha fatto conoscere, ch'ei morrà senz'altro.And Eliseus sayd to him: Goe, tel him: Thou shalt be healed: but our Lord hath shewed me that dying he shal die.Dixitque ei Eliseus: Vade, dic ei: Sanaberis: porro ostendit mihi Dominus quia morte morietur. 11And he stood with him, and was troubled so far as to blush: and the man of God wept.E si fermò con lui, e si conturbò l'uomo di Dio talmente che divento rosso in faccia, e pianse.And he stood with him, and was trubled so far that he blushed: and the man of God wept.Stetique cum eo, et conturbatus est usque ad suffusionem vultus: flevitque vir Dei. 12And Hazael said to him: Why doth my lord weep? And he said: Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel. Their strong cities thou wilt burn with fire, and their young men thou wilt kill with the sword, and thou wilt dash their children, and rip up their pregnant women.E dissegli Hazaele: Per qual motivo piange il signor mio. E quegli rispose: Perchè so il male, che tu farai a figliuoli d'Israele: tu darai alle fiamme le loro città munite, e ucciderai di spada la loro gioventù, e infrangerai i loro bambinelli, e sventrerai le pregnanti.To whom Hazael sayd: Why doeth my lord weepe? But he sayd: Because I know what euils thou wilt doe to the children of Israel. Their fensed cities thou wilt burne with fyre, and their yongmen thou wilt kil with the sword, and their litle ones thou wilt dash in peeces, and wemen with childe thou wilt diuide.Cui Hazaël ait: Quare dominus meus flet ? At ille dixit: Quia scio quæ facturus sis filiis Israël mala. Civitates eorum munitas igne succendes, et juvenes eorum interficies gladio, et parvulos eorum elides, et prægnantes divides. 13And Hazael said: But what am I, thy servant, a dog, that I should do this great thing? And Eliseus said: The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king of Syria.E disse Hazaele: Ma che son io tuo servo un cane, io, che ho da far cosa sì grande? Ed Eliseo gli disse: Il Signore mi ha fatto conoscere, che tu sarai re della Siria.And Hazael sayd: What am I thy seruant a dog, that I should doe this great thing? And Eliseus sayd: Our Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king of Syria.Dixitque Hazaël: Quid enim sum servus tuus canis, ut faciam rem istam magnam ? Et ait Eliseus: Ostendit mihi Dominus te regem Syriæ fore.
14And when he was departed from Eliseus he came to his master, who said to him: What said Eliseus to thee? And he answered: He told me: Thou shalt recover.E quegli partitosi da Eliseo tornò al suo padrone, il quale gli disse: Che ti ha egli detto Eliseo? E quegli rispose: Mi ha detto, che tu ricupererai la sanità.Who when he was departed from Eliseus, came to his maister, who sayd to him: What sayd Eliseus to thee? But he answered: He told me: Thou shalt recouer health.Qui cum recessisset ab Eliseo, venit ad dominum suum. Qui ait ei: Quid dixit tibi Eliseus ? At ille respondit: Dixit mihi: Recipies sanitatem. 15And on the next day, he took a blanket, and poured water on it, and spread it upon his face: and he died, and Hazael reigned in his stead.E il dì seguente prese un coltrone, e lo inzuppò d'acqua, e lo distese sulla faccia del re; il quale essendo morto, regnò Hazaele in suo luogo.And when the next day was come, he tooke a couerlette, and powred water theron, and spred it vpon his face: who being dead, Hazael reigned for him.Cumque venisset dies altera, tulit stragulum, et infudit aquam, et expandit super faciem ejus: quo mortuo, regnavit Hazaël pro eo. 16In the fifth year of Joram, son of Achab, king of Israel, and of Josaphat, king of Juda, reigned Joram, son of Josaphat, king of Juda.L'anno quinto di Joram figliuolo di Achab re d'Israele, e di Josaphat re di Giuda, regnò Joram figliuolo di Josaphat re di Giuda.In the fifth yeare of Ioram the sonne of Achab the king of Israel, and of Iosaphat the king of Iuda, reigned Ioram the sonne of Iosaphat the king of Iuda.Anno quinto Joram filii Achab regis Israël, et Josaphat regis Juda, regnavit Joram filius Josaphat rex Juda. 17He was two and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.Egli avea trentadue anni, quando principiò a regnare; e regnò otto anni in Gerusalemme.He was two and thirtie yeares old when he began to reigne, and he reigned eight yeares in Ierusalem.Triginta duorum annorum erat cum regnare cœpisset, et octo annis regnavit in Jerusalem. 18And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had walked: for the daughter of Achab was his wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.E seguì le tracce dei re d'Israele, come avea fatto la casa di Achab; perocché egli avea per moglie una figliuola di Achab; e fece il male nel cospetto del Signore.And he walked in the waies of the kinges of Israel, as the house of Achab had walked: for the daughter of Achab was his wife: and he did that which is euil in the sight of our Lord.Ambulavitque in viis regum Israël, sicut ambulaverat domus Achab: filia enim Achab erat uxor ejus: et fecit quod malum est in conspectu Domini.
19But the Lord would not destroy Juda, for David his servant’s sake, as he had promised him, to give him a light, and to his children always.Ma il Signore non volle sterminar Giuda per amore di David suo servo, per serbare a lui, e a' suoi figliuoli una fiaccola in ogni tempo, come a lui avea promesso.But our Lord would not destroy Iuda, for Dauid his seruant, as he had promised him, to geue him a lampe to him, and to his children alwaies.Noluit autem Dominus disperdere Judam, propter David servum suum, sicut promiserat ei, ut daret illi lucernam, et filiis ejus cunctis diebus. 20In his days Edom revolted from being under Juda, and made themselves a king.A' tempi di lui Edom si ribellò da Giuda, e si elesse un re.In his daies reuolted Edom, from being vnder Iuda, and made to it self a king.In diebus ejus recessit Edom ne esset sub Juda, et constituit sibi regem. 21And Joram came to Seira, and all the chariots with him: and he arose in the night, and defeated the Edomites that had surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots, but the people fled into their tents.E Joram andò a Seira con tutti i suoi cocchi: e di notte tempo si mosse, e mise in rotta gl'Idumei, i quali lo avean circondato, e i comandanti de' loro cocchi; e quel popolo si fuggì alle sue tende.And Ioram came to Seira, and al the chariotes with him: and he arose in the night, and stroke the Idumeans, that had beset him, and the captaynes of the chariotes, and the people fled into their tabernacles.Venitque Joram Seira, et omnes currus cum eo: et surrexit nocte, percussitque Idumæos qui eum circumdederant, et principes curruum: populus autem fugit in tabernacula sua. 22So Edom revolted from being under Juda, unto this day. Then Lobna also revolted at the same time.Ma Edom si staccò da Giuda per non essergli più soggetto fino a questo dì. E in quel tempo stesso si ribellò anche Lobna.Edom therfore reuolted from being vnder Iuda, vntil this day. Then Lobna also reuolted at that time.Recessit ergo Edom ne esset sub Juda, usque ad diem hanc. Tunc recessit et Lobna in tempore illo. 23But the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?Il resto poi delle azioni di Joram, e tutto quello, ch'egli operò, non è egli scritto nel giornale de' fatti dei re di Giuda?But the rest of the wordes of Ioram, and al that he did, are not these thinges written in the Booke of the wordes of the kinges of Iuda?Reliqua autem sermonum Joram, et universa quæ fecit, nonne hæc scripta sunt in libro verborum dierum regum Juda ?
24And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, and Ochozias, his son, reigned in his stead.E Joram si addormentò co' padri suoi, e fu sepolto con essi nella città di Davidde, e regnò in sua vece Ochozia suo figliuolo.And Ioram slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the Citie of Dauid, and Ochozias his sonne reigned for him.Et dormivit Joram cum patribus suis, sepultusque est cum eis in civitate David, et regnavit Ochozias filius ejus pro eo. 25In the twelfth year of Joram, the son of Achab, king of Israel, reigned Ochozias, son of Joram, king of Juda.L'anno duodecimo di Joram figli nolo di Achab re d'Israele, principiò a regnare Ochozia figliuolo di Joram re di Giuda.In the twelfth yeare of Ioram the sonne of Achab the king of Israel, reigned Ochozias the sonne of Ioram the king of Iuda.Anno duodecimo Joram filii Achab regis Israël regnavit Ochozias filius Joram regis Judæ. 26Ochozias was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri king of Israel.Ventidue anni aveva Ochozia, quando cominciò a regnare, e regnò un anno in Gerusalemme: sua madre ebbe nome Athalia figliuola di Amri re d'Israele.Two and twentie yeares old was Ochozias when he began to reigne, and he reigned one yeare in Ierusalem: the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri the king of Israel:Viginti duorum annorum erat Ochozias cum regnare cœpisset, et uno anno regnavit in Jerusalem: nomen matris ejus Athalia filia Amri regis Israël. 27And he walked in the ways of the house of Achab: and he did evil before the Lord, as did the house of Achab: for he was the son in law of the house of Achab.Egli seguì le tracce della casa di Achab: e fece il male nel cospetto del Signore, come la casa di Achab: perocché egli era genero della casa di Achab.And he walked in the waies of the house of Achab: and he did that which is euil before our Lord, as the house of Achab: for he was the sonne in lawe of the house of Achab.Et ambulavit in viis domus Achab: et fecit quod malum est coram Domino, sicut domus Achab: gener enim domus Achab fuit. 28He went also with Joram, son of Achab, to fight against Hazael, king of Syria, in Ramoth Galaad, and the Syrians wounded Joram:Egli parimente andò con Joram figliuolo di Achab a combattere contro Hazael re della Siria a Ramoth di Galaad, e fu ferito Joram dai Siri:He went also with Ioram the sonne of Achab, to fight agaynst Hazael the king of Syria in Ramoth Galaad, and the Syrians wounded Ioram:Abiit quoque cum Joram filio Achab ad præliandum contra Hazaël regem Syriæ in Ramoth Galaad, et vulneraverunt Syri Joram.
29And he went back to be healed, in Jezrahel: because the Syrians had wounded him in Ramoth, when he fought against Hazael, king of Syria And Ochozias, the son of Joram, king of Juda, went down to visit Joram, the son of Achab, in Jezrahel, because he was sick there.E tornò a Jezrael a farsi curare dalle ferite ricevute dai Siri in Ramoth, mentre combatteva contro Hazael re della Siria. E Ochozia figliuolo di Joram re di Giuda, andò a visitare Joram figliuolo di Achab in Jezrael, perchè quivi egli era ammalato.Who returned to be cured, in Iezrahel: because the Syrians wounded him in Ramoth fighting agaynst Hazael the king of Syria. Moreouer Ochozias the sonne of Ioram the king of Iuda, went downe to visite Ioram the sonne of Achab into Iezrahel, because he was sicke there.Qui reversus est ut curaretur in Jezrahel, quia vulneraverant eum Syri in Ramoth præliantem contra Hazaël regem Syriæ. Porro Ochozias filius Joram rex Juda descendit invisere Joram filium Achab in Jezrahel, quia ægrotabat ibi.
8:1
Calmet
Famine. God disposes of all things. (Calmet)
Du Hamel
Famine, etc., are his executioners. (Du Hamel)
8:3
Year of the World 3120.
Du Hamel
Lands, which others had seized. (Du Hamel)
8:4
Calmet
Giezi was not yet infected; (Salien; Menochius) or if he was, (Haydock) the king spoke to him at a distance, overcoming his natural repugnance, in order to know some particulars of the life of Eliseus. (Calmet)
Tirinus
This he would more readily do, if Giezi had brought the glad tidings of plenty. (Tirinus)
Calmet
Providence ordered that he should be present at this time, that he might bear witness to the woman. (Calmet)
8:6
Caius
Restore. "Restituere est possessorem facere fructusque reddere." (Caius.)
Some think that the lands had been confiscated to the king, as being abandoned; or his authority was requisite, at least, to make the present occupiers give them up.
8:7
Calmet
Damascus, the territory, (ver. 8.) to announce the king's death, and to anoint Hazael, as God had ordered Elias, 3 Kings 19:15. (Calmet)
Tirinus
Sick, at the ill success of his late expedition. (Josephus) (Tirinus)
8:9
Menochius
Camels. It does not appear that Eliseus rejected these presents. (Menochius)
8:10
Challoner
Tell him: Thou shalt recover. By these words the prophet signified that the king's disease was not mortal: and that he would recover, if no violence were used. Or he might only express himself in this manner, by way of giving Hazael to understand that he knew both what he would say and do; that he would indeed tell the king he should recover, but would be himself the instrument of his death. (Challoner)
Haydock
The imperative is often used for the future tense. (Gloss 3:3.) (John 2:19.) The present Hebrew reads, "Thou shalt not live: for," etc., which removes the difficulty. But the Chaldean, Septuagint, Syriac, etc., agree with the Vulgate, (Calmet) as the Protestant version also does. "Thou mayst certainly recover, howbeit the Lord," etc. (Haydock)
Kennicott
Lo, "not," in the Hebrew text, seems however preferable to the marginal reading, lu, "to him." This mistake has been sometimes made elsewhere, and ought to be carefully examined. (Kennicott, 1 Paralipomenon 11:20.)
8:11
Menochius
Blush. This may be referred either to Hazael, who was astonished at the words and looks of the prophet, (Haydock) or to Eliseus. (Menochius)
Calmet
Septuagint Complutensian, "and Hazael stood before his face, and he displayed the presents before him, till he blushed, and the," etc. Though this has the appearance of a gloss, it is perhaps most conformable to the Hebrew and to an ancient Greek version. (Calmet)
Protestants, "he settled his countenance steadfastly, until he was ashamed."
8:13
Calmet
A dog. He speaks with indignation, as if he could not be so brutal; (Tirinus) or he could not yet think that he should be king. (Calmet)
Calmet
He afterwards proved as cruel as the prophet had signified, 4 Kings 10:32., and Amos 1:3. (Calmet)
8:15
Haydock
Blanket. Hebrew macber, a word which the Septuagint retain. (Haydock)
Calmet
It denotes a hairy coverlet, pillow, etc. Tiberius and Frederic II met with the like fate. (Calmet)
Calmet
some think that Hazael was only guilty of imprudence; (Menochius) or that Benadad killed himself; as the Hebrew might be rendered, if the sequel did not evince that his death was caused by Hazael's malice. (Calmet)
Haydock
He might pretend that the wet cloth would give Benadad refreshment. (Haydock)
Tirinus
But it would bring on present death, with most exquisite torture. (Tirinus)
Josephus
The names of both these kings were in great veneration among the Syrians, who paid them divine honours. (Josephus, [Antiquities?] 9:4.)
Haydock
Perhaps they might not know that the latter had been guilty of such a base murder. (Haydock)
8:16
Haydock
Fifth. Houbigant would read "third," p. 100. See 4 Kings 1:17. (Haydock)
Challoner
Josaphat. That is, Josaphat being yet alive, who some time before his death made his son Joram king; as David had done before by his son Solomon. (Challoner)
Haydock
The words are omitted in some copies of the Septuagint (Du Hamel) and are perhaps inserted from the end of the verse. (Haydock)
Haydock
Protestants, "Jehosaphat being then king," in his 22d year. (Haydock)
Calmet
Joram had been appointed viceroy in the sixteenth year of his father's reign, and was now raised to sit on the throne with him. Thus the Scripture may be reconciled. (Calmet)
8:18
Achab, Athalia. She led her husband into all wickedness. (Tirinus) (2 Paralipomenon xxi.)
8:19
Haydock
Light, or lamp, posterity and regal power, 3 Kings 11:36. (Haydock)
8:20
Haydock
King. The one under Josaphat was dependant, 4 Kings 3:9., and 3 Kings 22:48. Thus the prediction of Jacob was verified, (Genesis 27:40.; Calmet) and Joram punished. (Haydock)
8:21
Year of the World 3115, Year before Christ 889.
Seira, or Idumea, Genesis 14:6.
Calmet
Defeated. The Syriac and Arabic explain it in a contrary sense, as the Hebrew may well signify, and the sequel seems to prove, as the Edomites became independent. Hebrew, "He rose....and attacked Edom that surrounded him, (with superior numbers) and the princes... and the people (of Israel) fled." But the text will also bear the sense of the Vulgate, which is conformable to 2 Paralipomenon 21:9., which does not say the people, etc., though these words may be understood of the Edomites. Joram could not derive such advantage from his victory, as to reduce the nation under his obedience. (Calmet)
8:22
Tostat
Day, when Jeremias, the author, lived. (Tostat)
Lobna, a frontier town bordering on Idumea. It was a strong place assigned to the priests; but strangers had probably again taken possession of it, and caused it now to revolt. The kings of Juda had retaken it when Sennacherib laid siege to the place. See 4 Kings 19:8., and Josue 10:30., and 21:13.
8:24
Slept, after a lingering and painful illness of two years' continuance. Joram was not buried in the tomb of the other kings, nor were perfumes burnt over his corpse; (Calmet) as his memory was abhorred, 2 Paralipomenon xxi.
8:25
Year of the World 3119.
Houbigant
Twelfth, more correctly than "the eleventh," 4 Kings 9:29. (Houbigant)
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Haydock
Twenty. In 2 Paralipomenon 22:2., we read forty, by mistake of the transcribers, as Ochozias, (Joachaz, or Azarias, 2 Paralipomenon 21:17.) would thus be older than his father, who died at the age of forty, 2 Paralipomenon 21:20. All the original versions, and many copies of the Septuagint read "twenty-two" in both passages; and those who would admit no mistake, are forced to have recourse to explanations which can give no satisfaction. De Dieu would include in the reign of Ochozias the six years of Athalia's usurpation, and the thirteen of Joas, during his minority. Others would date from the separation of the two kingdoms, etc. But would the Holy Ghost cause the same fact to be recorded in two places in such a different manner? The best chronologists acknowledge a mistake in the Hebrew text of Paralipomenon. (Cajetan; Salien; Petau; Tirinus, etc.; Calmet) as the letters which denote these numbers are not unlike (Mariana:) c (20) might easily be exchanged for m (40.) (Haydock)
Worthington
Daughter. That is, grand-daughter; for she was daughter of Achab, son of Amri, ver. 18., (Challoner) unless she was only adopted by Achab. (Worthington)
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Year of the World 3120.
Haydock
Galaad. The same city had proved fatal to Achab, 3 Kings xxii. Joram took it, but received (Calmet) many wounds; so that he left Jehu to attack the citadel. The latter was anointed king, and acknowledged by the army. He immediately proceeded to Jezrahel, and put his master to death. (Haydock)
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Tell him: thou shalt recover.... By these words the prophet signified that the king’s disease was not mortal: and that he would recover if no violence were used. Or he might only express himself in this manner, by way of giving Hazael to understand that he knew both what he would say and do; that he would indeed tell the king he should recover; but would be himself the instrument of his death.
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Daughter.... That is, grand-daughter; for she was daughter of Achab son of Amri, ver. 18.
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This was true in some sense, sicknes ending when death came.
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Athalia v. 26. is called the daughter of Amri. VVherfore it semeth that either she was the adopted daughter of her brother Achab, or is there called the daughter of her grandfather.
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St John Chrysostom † AD 407 Homilies on First Corinthians 9
… Seest thou not that we call a thing humane, when it is full of mercy and loving-kindness? But when a man doth any thing cruel or savage, inhuman is the title we give to such a one. You see then that the stamp of man as we portray him is his showing mercy; of a beast the contrary; according to constant saying, “Why, is a man a wild beast, or a dog?” (vid.
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1. THE LORD CALLED (by His voice, that is, by His command He will bring) INDEED A FAMINE, AND IT SHALL COME UPON THE LAND FOR SEVEN YEARS. This is a hysterologia; for this prophecy of Elisha concerning the famine of seven years was made earlier, namely five or six years before; but here it is recounted, because to the woman his hostess, to whom Elisha had predicted this famine, returning to her land after the seven-year famine, happened those things which are narrated here in verse 5 and following. The same is confirmed from the fact that Gehazi here in verse 4, speaks with the king. Therefore he was not yet a leper; for lepers were excluded from human commerce. Therefore these things happened before the coming and healing of Naaman; for Gehazi was struck with leprosy before, as I said above. Thus Torniellus, Salianus and others.
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7. ELISHA ALSO CAME TO DAMASCUS (which was the metropolis of Benhadad king of Syria), AND BENHADAD KING OF SYRIA WAS SICK in Damascus. Benhadad shortly after the siege of Samaria was lifted, from terror and grief contracted this disease, in which he died. Hear Josephus, lib. IX, cap. II: "But the king of the Syrians returning to Damascus unharmed, when he learned that by divine terror sent, he together with his army had been put to flight, and that what they believed concerning the coming of enemies was vain, thinking absolutely that the Deity was against him, through mental anguish he also fell into bodily disease." Certainly God wished to punish Benhadad, who had inflicted so many disasters on Israel, by disease and death, and therefore sent Elisha to Damascus, who would predict his death to Hazael, and declare him the successor of his kingdom.
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9. CARRYING WITH HIM GIFTS AND ALL THE GOOD THINGS OF DAMASCUS, LOADS OF FORTY CAMELS. Hazael offered so many and such great gifts to Elisha for the health of Benhadad his king; but it is certain that Elisha did not accept them; both because he did not heal Benhadad himself, but predicted his death: and because he himself steadfastly refused, cap. V, the gifts of Naaman whom he had cured of leprosy, and punished Gehazi who accepted them with leprosy. Thus Abulensis and others.
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10. GO, SAY TO HIM: THOU SHALT BE HEALED. MOREOVER THE LORD HATH SHOWN ME, THAT HE SHALL SURELY DIE. This is a difficult passage; for it seems that Elisha commands Hazael to lie, namely that he say to king Benhadad that he is to be healed, when he was soon to die. First, the Rabbis and from them Abulensis read it contrarily, namely, thou shalt not be healed; for for לו le, by vau, that is, to him, they read לא lo by aleph, that is, not. But the Chaldean, the Septuagint and all the Latin Codices read affirmatively: thou shalt be healed. Second, others respond that Elisha spoke ironically, as if to say, namely thou shalt be healed, thou hopest to be healed; but thou art mistaken: for thou shalt not be healed, but thou shalt die. Third and genuinely "thou shalt be healed," namely as far as the disease is concerned, that is to say, thy disease is not lethal, from this disease thou shalt not die, which was true; for not the disease, but the force of Hazael killed and suffocated Benhadad. Thus Cajetan, Serarius, Salianus and others.
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13. WHAT AM I, THY SERVANT, A DOG, THAT I SHOULD DO THIS GREAT THING? Hazael denies that he is a dog, not only with respect to baseness, but also and rather with respect to impudence and canine savagery, as if to say, I am not so impudent, barbarous and fierce as to rage like a dog upon human entrails and devour them. Why therefore dost thou, O Elisha, assert and say to me: "Thou shalt dash their little ones in pieces, and shalt rip up their women with child?" Thus indeed Hazael felt at that time; but having become king of Syria he changed his mind, and did what Elisha here predicts, and what he himself here abhors. For honors change morals, but rarely for the better. He adds the reason: THE LORD HATH SHEWN ME THEE TO BE KING OF SYRIA, that is to say, thou shalt be king of Syria, and therefore having become king thou shalt put on the inborn hatred of the Syrians toward the Israelites, so that "thou shalt dash their little ones in pieces and shalt rip up their women with child," as I predicted. This hatred began with Adad, when he rebelled against Solomon, and made himself king of Syria, and his son Benadad sucked it from him as from a father, and from him the other kings of Syria. See what is said in III Kings XI, 14. Made bolder by this prediction of the kingdom, Hazael suffocated king Benadad and seized his kingdom, as follows: and unmindful and ungrateful to Elisha, he made himself an enemy to Israel, and raged against him, and fulfilled the barbarism predicted to him by Elisha.
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15. HE TOOK A COVERLET, AND POURED WATER UPON IT, AND SPREAD IT UPON HIS FACE. The Hebrew, Chaldean and Septuagint add, and he died, which Our version expressed, adding: And Hazael reigned in his stead. It appears that Benadad, burning with a burning fever, asked for water to cool himself: Hazael poured it out for him in a coverlet soaked with water, and thus either through carelessness, or rather through deceit, water continually dripping from the coverlet into the mouth and throat of Benadad, suffocated him, so that he might succeed him in the kingdom. Serarius adds that this water and coverlet were perhaps infected with some poisonous substance: as the ancients relate of the robe of Hercules from Dejanira, and of the tunic of the Emperor Otho III, of Ladislaus king of the Hungarians, and of Suleiman. Josephus says simply that he was strangled: thus indeed God punished Benadad for the cruelty he exercised toward the Israelites. Furthermore, Benadad appears to have reigned for 56 years; for so many years intervene from the seventeenth year of Asa king of Judah, in which Benadad began to reign, as is clear from III Kings XV, verse 18, until the first year of the reign of Hazael. Thus Salianus. Some, however, think that several kings intervened in Syria, and that all were called "Benadad," that is, sons and successors of Adad, the first king of Syria. Whence the Hebrews relate that Benadad was a common name of the kings of Syria. Finally, Josephus, lib. XI Antiq. cap. II, asserts that both Benadad and Hazael were held in the highest veneration among the Syrians, indeed "both were honored with divine honors," and the image of each was honored in daily processions, both on account of other beneficence, and because by magnificently constructing temples they made Damascus more ornate.
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16. IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF JORAM SON OF AHAB KING OF ISRAEL, JORAM SON OF JEHOSHAPHAT REIGNED KING OF JUDAH, namely alone after the death of his father Jehoshaphat. You will object that this appears to have happened in the seventh year of Joram, not the fifth; for in chapter III, 1, it was said that Joram king of Israel began to reign in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; but Jehoshaphat reigned for twenty-five years: from the eighteenth year to the twenty-fifth, there are seven years, after which, upon the death of Jehoshaphat, his son Joram succeeded him. Lyra and Cajetan respond that Joram son of Ahab reigned after the death of Ahab together with his firstborn brother Ahaziah for two years: namely from the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat, until his twentieth year, in which Ahaziah died, and then Joram his younger brother began to reign alone. Therefore what is said here: "in the fifth year of Joram," understand it from the time when Joram began to reign alone after his brother's death, which was in the twentieth year of Jehoshaphat; but this is hindered by what is said in III Kings, the last chapter, verse 52, namely that Ahaziah began to reign in Israel in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat, and died in the eighteenth year of the same, for he reigned for only two years: wherefore since Ahaziah died in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat, and his brother Joram immediately succeeded him, it follows that Joram began to reign in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat, not the twentieth. Abulensis responds better that the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat should not be counted, because in that year completed Joram began to reign, nor the nineteenth, because he began to reign toward the end of it, nor the twenty-fifth, because that was incomplete: with these three years removed, there remain from the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat to his twenty-fifth year only five complete years, of which it is said here: "In the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab, etc., Joram son of Jehoshaphat reigned," namely after the death of Jehoshaphat, who died in the twenty-fifth year of his reign; then indeed his son Joram succeeded him. Most excellently Richard of St. Victor in the reconciliation of the books of Kings and Chronicles, Arias in Daniel, Salianus, Torniellus, Sanchez and Serarius respond here that Joram king of Judah was twice named king by his father, on account of two of his wars, namely first in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat, when he himself was about to go with Ahab to war against the Syrians, III Kings XXII, and then it appears Jehoshaphat again declared his son Joram king, and entrusted to him the administration of the kingdom in his absence, and from this point the eight years are to be counted in which Joram is said to have reigned; thus namely that Joram reigned for three years with his father Jehoshaphat living, but for four others after the death of his father: the eighth and last was incomplete, and therefore is not counted. Wherefore although some think Joram reigned eight years after the death of his father Jehoshaphat, yet it is more true what I have said, namely that he reigned for only four complete years, and a fifth incomplete, after the death of Jehoshaphat, but with him living he reigned in the last three years of his life, this is evident from chapter IX, 29, where Ahaziah son of Joram king of Judah, his father Joram having died, is said to have begun to reign in the eleventh year of Joram king of Israel: now count the years from the fifth year of Joram king of Israel, until his eleventh year, you will have only five complete years, in which alone the other Joram reigned after the death of his father Jehoshaphat in Judah. Conversely, when in chapter I, 17, it is said that Joram king of Israel began to reign in the second year of Joram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, understand the second year from that time when Joram first received the title of king from his father Jehoshaphat going against the Syrians, which was in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat. Whence the second year of Joram son of Jehoshaphat falls in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat, in which Joram son of Ahab began to reign in Israel.
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18. AND (Joram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah) WALKED IN THE WAYS OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL (worshipping their idols) AS THE HOUSE OF AHAB HAD WALKED. FOR AHAB'S DAUGHTER WAS HIS WIFE, by name Athaliah; for she was the wife of Joram, and mother of Ahaziah, as is evident from verse 26.
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19. THAT HE MIGHT GIVE HIM A LAMP, that is, a line and royal descent, namely of grandsons continuously succeeding one another in the kingdom of Judah.
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23. NOW THE REST OF THE WORDS (that is, of the deeds and acts) OF JORAM, AND ALL THAT HE DID, ARE NOT THESE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE WORDS OF THE DAYS OF THE KINGS OF JUDA, namely in the Diaries and annals of the kings of Juda? Note that many things concerning Joram are passed over here, which are therefore supplied in II Paralipomenon, cap. XXI, where in verse 3 King Josaphat is said to have given to his sons, who were brothers of Joram, "fixed revenues" (some wrongly read "pensions"), that is, annual incomes. Again, that Joram killed all his brothers, six in number, so that he might reign alone in security. Moreover, that Elias, already taken up (nine years before), sent letters to him from paradise, by which he threatened him with God's vengeance on account of these fratricides and on account of idolatry, which soon befell him; for God struck him with an incurable disease, so that he discharged his bowels: He also killed all his sons through the Philistines and Arabs, except for Ochozias alone, who, although the youngest born, succeeded him, and this as a punishment of retaliation, so that just as he himself had killed his brothers, so also his sons were killed. Josephus adds that his wives were killed. Thus these barbarians, by the just judgment of God, made funeral rites with the blood of the king's sons, the king's brothers, by their hands: yet the foolish king did not say in his heart: "Just art thou, O Lord, and thy judgment is right."
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25. IN THE TWELFTH YEAR OF JORAM SON OF ACHAB KING OF ISRAEL, OCHOZIAS SON OF JORAM KING OF JUDA REIGNED. You will say, in the following chapter, verse 29, it is said that Ochozias began to reign in the eleventh year of Joram, not the twelfth. I answer that he began to reign in the eleventh year together with his father Joram, who was in the torments of his disease; but in the following year, which is the twelfth, after his father's death he reigned alone in Juda. Thus Abulensis, Sanchez, Salianus and others.
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26. TWENTY-TWO YEARS OLD WAS OCHOZIAS WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN. You will say that in II Paralipomenon, cap. XXII, this contradiction is most difficult and almost irreconcilable, which I shall discuss in its proper place in the book of Paralipomenon. AND THE NAME OF HIS MOTHER WAS ATHALIA, DAUGHTER OF AMRI, that is, granddaughter of Amri; for Athalia was the daughter of Achab, as was said in verse 18. But Achab was the son of Amri. Thus in Matt. I, 8, Ozias is called the son of Joram, when he was his grandson, indeed his great-grandson; for three generations are omitted there, and three intermediate sons, namely Ochozias, Joas and Amasias, because Joram had mingled himself with the impious line of Achab, and with his wife Athalia, daughter of Jezabel, had brought idolatry into the kingdom of Juda. Otherwise the Hebrews answer, according to St. Jerome in the Tradition, and Cajetan, namely that Athalia was truly the daughter of Amri, yet is said to be the daughter of Achab, either by imitation or by upbringing, because she was educated by Achab, and therefore imitated his idolatry.
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27. FOR HE WAS SON-IN-LAW OF THE HOUSE OF ACHAB. Ochozias therefore appears to have married the daughter of Joram son of Achab, just as Joram the father of Ochozias had married Athalia the daughter of Achab, or certainly to have married the daughter of the brother or sister of Joram; for this reason he is called "son-in-law of the house of Achab," because namely his father-in-law was Joram, or the brother of Joram: indeed all this impiety and idolatry was brought into the kingdom of Juda through the impious Jezabel; for Athalia was her daughter, and the wife of Ochozias was her granddaughter, both of whom, educated by Jezabel, who was the mother of the one and the grandmother of the other, imbibed her impiety and gentile customs. See here how dangerous and harmful it is to marry unbelieving or heretical wives.
Machine translation from the Latin, not reviewed.
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Giezi (Heb. Gēḇāzī; Septuagint = Giezí)
Greed and deceit, on the occasion of the miraculous healing of the Syrian general Naaman, ruined G., who as a punishment ended up a leper (2 Kings 5:20-27). The episode in which G. narrates to Jehoram, king of Judah, the prodigies performed by Elisha (2 Kings 8:1-6) is earlier than the preceding one, for the king would never have allowed a leper to converse with him.
before the battle against Saul on Mount Gilboa (1 Sam. 28:4). It was the homeland of Abishag (1 Kings 1:3), of the pious woman whose son Elisha raised from the dead (2 Kings 4:8, 12; 8:1), and of the Shulammite (Song 7:1; Gk. Σουνταξίτης). …
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… Later he laid siege to Samaria, but this time too a miraculous intervention put him to flight (II Kings 6 and 7). The change of dynasty at D. carried out by Hazael (II Kings 8, 7-15) is attested by inscriptions of Shalmaneser II and by an inscription carved on an ivory plaque. …
Eliseus ('Elīlā' = "God Saves")
He goes to Damascus to carry out the mission entrusted by God to Elijah (cf. 1 Kings 19:25); to Hazael he reveals that he will kill the sick king, will obtain the kingdom and will do great harm to Israel (2 Kings 8:7-15). In the same way he chooses the most opportune moment to anoint, through one of his disciples, Jehu as king of Israel, while Joram is wounded and is at Jezreel (2 Kings 8:25-29). …
Hazael (Hebrew: Ḥāzā'ēl and Ḥāzā'ēl, «God sees»; Akkadian: Ḥaza'ilu; Septuagint: A'āyā)
… punish the idolatry of Israel (1 Kings 19:15-17). Sent by the ailing Ben-hadad II to consult Elisha, H., to his unpleasant surprise, found his plan to kill the King revealed to him, along with the announcement of the great evil he would do to Israel (2 Kings 8:7-15). Having killed Ben-hadad, he usurped the Kingdom; H. is therefore called by the Assyrians: "son of nobody" (A. Pohl [v. bibl.], pp. 71, 10°).
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… 38, 28; cf. Jer. 2, 27), hence God (Deut. 32, 6; Is. 63, 16; Eccli. 51, 10). 4) Benefactor (Iob 29, 16), one who takes care of others (Is. 9, 5; 22, 21). 5) Teacher ('a. is an honorary title, given to priests and prophets even by kings: II Reg. 6, 21; 8, 9; 13, 14; Iudc. 17, 10; 18, 19), as in the title of the treatise Aboth (v.); whence the teacher often calls the disciple "son" (Prov. 4, 10, 20; 5, 1, 20; 6, 1, 3; 7, 1, 24; Ps. 44 …
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… But Hazael, king of Syria, made Israel pay dearly for this alliance with the Assyrians: he not only harassed the kingdom of Samaria with continual raids, but also tore from it all the country beyond the Jordan, and left for a long time a terrible memory of his wartime atrocities (cf. II Kings 8:12; Am. 1:3). J. died after 28 years of reign, leaving the country drained of strength and with a third of it occupied by the Syrians.
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Benadad (Hebrew Ben-Hâdhad "Son of Hadad"; Septuagint ΥἹῸΣ ἈΔΈΡ)
… B. again besieged Samaria, under Jehoram (853-842), without being able to take it, however, because of divine intervention (II Kings 6:8-7:20). Shortly afterward, B. was smothered by Hazael, his officer, while he lay ill (II Kings 8:15).
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1 and 2 (3 and 4) Book of Kings
JEHORAM (8 years: 849-842), an impious king (II Reg. 8, 16-24).
… of inferiority with respect to the king of Israel, but, worse, exposed his kingdom and his family to the baneful influences of the house of Ahab, as was seen during the reign of his son Jehoram and even more under the despotic tyranny of Athaliah (cf. II Kings 8, 16 ff.; 11). He took part with King Ahab, against the warning of the prophet Micaiah son of Imlah, in the war for the reconquest of Ramoth-gilead: Ahab lost his life there, and J. only through …
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… Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians, who introduced into her new homeland the cult of Baal and of A. (1 Kings 16:31-33; 18:19). Jezebel's daughter, Athaliah, who became the wife of Jehoram, king of Judah, introduced anew into Jerusalem the cult of the goddess (2 Kings 8:18; 2 Chron. 24:7, 18), where it then remained until the times of Jeremiah, that is, until the collapse of the kingdom of Judah; and even then the Hebrew women offered cakes and libations …
… Indeed, Jehoram and Ahaziah "walked in the ways of Ahab, doing evil in the sight of the Lord" (II Kings 8:18, 27).
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1 and 2 (3 and 4) Book of Kings
… Indications of the unity of composition are also certain recurring formulas, such as: "sin of Jeroboam" (eight times in I Reg. and nine in II Reg.) "to do what is evil in the eyes of the Lord" (thirty times in the two books); "for the sake of David my servant" (I Reg. 13, 32, 34; 15, 4; II Reg. 8, 19; 19, 34; 20, 6); "mingens ad parietem" (I Reg. 14, 10; 16, 11; 21, 21; II Reg. 9, 8; elsewhere only in I Sam. 25, 22, 34).
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to the invasion of Jerusalem under Joram around 845 B.C. by Arabs and Philistines (cf. II Kings 8:20-22; II Chron. 21:8-17), and they adduce the following literary reasons: the dependence of Jeremiah (49:7-22) on A. (5-17) and of Amos (1-2) on Joel (4:16), which in turn depends (3:5) on A. (17). …
Asiongaber (Hebrew Ešjōn-Gēbher "Grove of Gēbher [Name of a Man?]")
… built a new fleet there destined for Ophir, but it was destroyed in the port of A. by a storm (I Kings 9:26 ff.; 22:48 f.; II Chron. 8:17; 9:21; 20:35-37). Already under Joram (849-842 B.C.) Edom, having revolted, deprived the kingdom of Judah (cf. II Kings 8:20-22; II Chron. 21:8-10) of its coveted outlet to the sea. Afterward, the Bible no longer speaks of A., but of Elath, retaken from Edom by Uzziah (789-38 B.C.).
EDOM (IDUMEA). - Name by which are called: 1) the adult Esau (Gen. 25, 30; 36, 19); 2) his descendants and their land (Ex. 15, 15; Num. 20, 14 ff.; Judg. 5, 4; 11, 17 f.; II Sam. 8, 14; I Kings 9, 26; 11, 14 ff.; II Kings 3, 8 f.; 8, 20-22, etc.). …
a national monarchy (II Kings 8:20-22; II
It is evident that in the meantime the city was occupied by the Edomites, perhaps immediately after the death of Solomon, who continued the supremacy established by David (II Sam. 13-14), or else during the revolt against King Jehoram (849-842 B.C.; cf. II Kings 8:20-23).
… In the unfortunate attempt to quell the revolt, J. barely managed to escape the enemy's encirclement: thus from that time the Idumeans permanently obtained autonomy with a king of their own (II Kings 8, 20-22). The Philistines and the Arab tribes as well, who had made an act of submission to Jehoshaphat, rebelled against J. and plundered the country; indeed they made raids as far as Jerusalem, …
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1 and 2 (3 and 4) Book of Kings
… Of this there are sufficiently clear indications in I Reg. 8, 8 (the area of the Ark still exists in the Temple); II Reg. 8, 22 (Edom is free from the dominion of Israel, until the present), in the insistence on the promises of an uninterrupted succession for the dynasty of David, too much in contrast with …
Lebna (Heb. Libhná; Gr. Lechna, Lochna)
… Libhná; Gr. Lechna, Lochna). - A city of Palestine situated between Maceda and Lachish (Josh. 10:29-31). Taken by Joshua (Josh. 10:30, 39; 12:15), it was assigned to the Levites (Josh. 21:13; 1 Chron. 6:57). It made itself independent by revolting against Judah under Jehoram (2 Kings 8:22; 2 Chron. 21:10). It seems to have had a fortress which Sennacherib, in his struggle against Hezekiah,
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1 and 2 (3 and 4) Book of Kings
… purely and simply the religion of Yahweh (Hezekiah: II Kings 18, 3 ff.; Josiah: ibid. 22, 2). The concluding formula contains: a) an indication of the source, to which the reader too is referred for fuller information (I Kings 14, 29; 15, 7, 25, 31; II Kings 8, 23; 10, 34 etc.); b) death and successor (I Kings 14, 31; 15, 8, 24; II Kings 8, 24; 10, 35 etc.). …
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1 and 2 (3 and 4) Book of Kings
… 22, 2). The concluding formula contains: a) an indication of the source, to which the reader too is referred for fuller information (I Kings 14, 29; 15, 7, 25, 31; II Kings 8, 23; 10, 34 etc.); b) death and successor (I Kings 14, 31; 15, 8, 24; II Kings 8, 24; 10, 35 etc.). …
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Eliseus ('Elīlā' = "God Saves")
… the sick king, will obtain the kingdom and will do great harm to Israel (2 Kings 8:7-15). In the same way he chooses the most opportune moment to anoint, through one of his disciples, Jehu as king of Israel, while Joram is wounded and is at Jezreel (2 Kings 8:25-29). Jehu, to whom the words have been recalled
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1 and 2 (3 and 4) Book of Kings
… Non-constant elements are the indication of the age the sovereign was at the beginning of his reign (I Kings 22, 42; II Kings 14, 23); the name of the mother for the kings of Judah (II Kings 8, 26); the place of burial (I Kings 16, 28; 22, 51).
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… "He too walked in the way of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing evil" (II Par. 22, 3; cf. II Reg. 8, 27). Together with Jehoram his uncle, king of Israel, he took part in the expedition against Hazael king of Damascus for the reconquest of Ramoth-gilead. …
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… Against Hazael, Joram of Israel and Ahaziah of Judah made war, but were defeated (II Kings 8, 28, 29). Hazael in 842 and 839 withstood the shock of two Assyrian expeditions, which spread terror and devastation.
God gives E. the task of anointing Hazael as king of Damascus, Jehu as king of Israel, and Elisha as prophet; they will be the instruments of God for the victory of Yahwism: the first will devastate the kingdom of Samaria (cf. II Kings 8:28 ff.; 10:32 ff.; 12:3), the second will drown in blood the dynasty of Ahab and the worshippers of Baal (cf. II Kings 9-10), the third will cooperate with his oracles. …
Hazael (Hebrew: Ḥāzā'ēl and Ḥāzā'ēl, «God sees»; Akkadian: Ḥaza'ilu; Septuagint: A'āyā)
… He had already defended Ramoth-gilead, wounding Joram (842; 2 Kings 8:28 ff.; 9:14 ff.); now, while Jehu reigned, he defeated the Israelites everywhere, occupied all of Transjordan as far as the Arnon (2 Kings 10:32 ff.; Am. 1:3 ff.); he dominated Israel: …
… But having gone to Jezreel to visit Jehoram, who had been wounded in the battle, both were surprised by the new king of Israel, Jehu (v.), who, after killing Jehoram, wished to do away with O. as well, because he was the son of Ahab's daughter (II Reg. 8, 28 ff.). …
… Gad (Deut. 4:13; Josh. 20:8; 21:38; 1 Chron. 6:66), capital of the Solomonic district north and south of the Yarmuk (1 Kings 4:13), cause of bitter struggles between Israelites and Arameans, who long contested its strategic possession (ibid. 22:3-24; 2 Kings 8:28; 9:1-14).
8:62
… Likewise the dedications of the Temple of Jerusalem were always protracted for eight days: at the time of the first dedication of the Temple of Jerusalem under Solomon (II Kings 8:62 ff.); as under Zerubbabel; after the exile (Ezra 3:8 f.; 6:13 ff.) and in the age of the Maccabees (Macc. 4:36 f.; 10:1 ff.), which met with the favor of the symbolic-mystical explanations, …
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · Vulgata Clementina · original Douay-Rheims (Douay 1609-10), transcription by EEBO-TCP (CC0) · La Sacra Bibbia, tradotta dalla Volgata da Antonio Martini (1769-1781) (LaParola (laparola.net), Martini OSIS text, Public domain (LaParola's electronic edition marks it 'Dominio pubblico')). Public domain.