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PARALLEL BIBLE - 2 Kings 13:17


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King James Bible - 2 Kings 13:17

And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.

World English Bible

He said, "Open the window eastward;" and he opened it. Then Elisha said, "Shoot!" and he shot. He said, "Yahweh's arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you shall strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them."

Douay-Rheims - 2 Kings 13:17

And said: Open the window to the east. And when he had opened it, Eliseus said: Shoot an arrow. And he shot. And Eliseus said: The arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of the deliverance from Syria: and thou shalt strike the Syrians in Aphec, till thou consume them.

Webster's Bible Translation

And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou hast consumed them.

Original Hebrew

ויאמר
559 פתח 6605 החלון 2474 קדמה 6924 ויפתח 6605 ויאמר 559 אלישׁע 477 ירה 3384 ויור 3384 ויאמר 559 חץ 2671 תשׁועה 8668 ליהוה 3068 וחץ 2671 תשׁועה 8668 בארם 758 והכית 5221 את 853 ארם 758 באפק 663 עד 5704 כלה׃ 3615

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2Ki 5:10-14 Joh 2:5-8; 11:39-41

SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:17

y dijo: Abre la ventana de hacia el oriente. Y cuando él la abrió dijo Eliseo: Tira. Y tirando él, dijo Eliseo : Saeta de salud del SEÑOR, y saeta de salud contra Siria; porque herirás a los siros en Afec, hasta consumirlos.

Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 13:17

Verse 17. Open the window eastward] This was towards the country beyond Jordan, which
Hazael had taken from the Israelites.

The arrow of-deliverance from Syria] That is, As surely as that arrow is shot towards the lands conquered from Israel by the Syrians, so surely shall those lands be reconquered and restored to Israel.

It was an ancient custom to shoot an arrow or cast a spear into the country which an army intended to invade. Justin says that, as soon as Alexander the Great had arrived on the coasts of Iona, he threw a dart into the country of the Persians. "Cum delati in continentem essent, primus Alexander jaculum velut in hostilem terram jacit." -Just. lib. ii.

The dart, spear, or arrow thrown, was an emblem of the commencement of hostilities. Virgil (AEn. lib. ix., ver. 51) represents Turnus as giving the signal of attack by throwing a spear:- Ecquis erit mecum, O Juvenes, qui primus in hostem? En, ait: et jaculum intorquens emittit in auras, Principium pugnae; et campo sese arduus infert.

"Who, first," he cried, "with me the foe will dare?" Then hurled a dart, the signal of the war. PITT.

Servius, in his note upon this place, shows that it was a custom to proclaim war in this stay: the pater patratus, or chief of the Feciales, a sort of heralds, went to the confines of the enemy's country, and, after some solemnities, said with a loud voice, I wage war with you, for such and such reasons; and then threw in a spear. It was then the business of the parties thus defied or warned to take the subject into consideration; and if they did not, within thirty days, come to some accommodation, the war was begun.

Thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek] This was a city of Syria, and probably the place of the first battle; and there, it appears, they had a total overthrow. They were, in the language of the text, consumed or exterminated.


John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 17. And he said, open the window eastward , etc.] Syria lying east of the land of Israel, as the Jewish commentators in general observe, and for which they quote ( Isaiah 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 Syrians had got possession of, and should be recovered, as this sign showed, (see 2 Kings 10:33), and he opened it: then Elisha said, shoot, and he shot ; the arrow, out of the window, being opened: and he said, the arrow of the Lord’s deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria ; meaning, that that arrow was a sign of the Lord’s deliverance of Israel from the Syrians, by whom they had been sadly oppressed, and reduced very low: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek till thou hast consumed them ; not the whole nation, but that army they should bring thither; which was a city in the land of Israel, where the Syrians were routed in Ahab’s time; 100,000 were slain near it on one day, and 27,000 by the fall of the wall of it, ( 1 Kings 20:26,29,30) hence some read the words here, “as in Aphek.”

Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 10-19 - Jehoash, the king, came to
Elisha, to receive his dying counsel an blessing. It may turn much to our spiritual advantage, to attend the sick-beds and death-beds of good men, that we may be encouraged in religion by the living comforts they have from it in a dying hour Elisha assured the king of his success; yet he must look up to God for direction and strength; must reckon his own hands not enough, but go on, in dependence upon Divine aid. The trembling hands of the dyin prophet, as they signified the power of God, gave this arrow more forc than the hands of the king in his full strength. By contemning the sign, the king lost the thing signified, to the grief of the dyin prophet. It is a trouble to good men, to see those to whom they wis well, forsake their own mercies, and to see them lose advantage against spiritual enemies.


Original Hebrew

ויאמר 559 פתח 6605 החלון 2474 קדמה 6924 ויפתח 6605 ויאמר 559 אלישׁע 477 ירה 3384 ויור 3384 ויאמר 559 חץ 2671 תשׁועה 8668 ליהוה 3068 וחץ 2671 תשׁועה 8668 בארם 758 והכית 5221 את 853 ארם 758 באפק 663 עד 5704 כלה׃ 3615


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