2 Kings 8:21

the people: i.e. of Judah.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Zair - Perhaps Seir, the famous mountain of Edom Genesis 14:6 . The people - i. e., The Edomites. Yet, notwithstanding his success, Joram wa...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Elisha and the Shunammite. Hazael, King of Syria. This chapter is somewhat varied as to composition. It opens with a short story about Elisha ( 2 K...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 o...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. No JFB...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Elisha and the Shunammite. Elisha and Hazael. Reigns of Jehoram and Ahaziah of Judah 1. Then spake Elisha] The occasion is not indicated, all the...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zair ] This place is only mentioned here, and the Vulgate reads Seir, another name for Edom. The people.. tents ] The people referred to is the peo...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(16-24) The reign of Jehoram, king of Judah. (Comp. 2 Chronicles 21 )
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

So Joram went over to Zair. — No town called Zair is otherwise known. Hitzig and Ewald would read Zoar, but Zoar lay in Moab, not in Edom. ( Jeremi...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

(1) JEHORAM BEN-JEHOSHAPHAT OF JUDAH B.C. 851-843 (2) AHAZIAH BEN-JEHORAM OF JUDAH B.C. 843-842 2 Kings 8:16-29 "Bear with the Turk, no b...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Athaliah's Wicked Husband and Sons 2 Kings 8:16-29 Jehoram's history furnishes a terrible example of how an ill-marriage may mar a man's life....
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The influence of Elisha is incidentally seen in the converse of the king with Gehazi and the restoration of the lands of the Shunammite woman for the...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Nothing further remarkable appears in the lives of these impious men but that they lived, transgressed, and died. Indeed, in the parallel history in...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So Joram went over to Zair ,.... A city in Edom, the same with the Zaara of Ptolemy i; some take it to be the same with Seir, the mountain or countr...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 o...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joram went over to Zair This word is written differently from Seir , and therefore, it seems, does not signify any part of the country of Edom, bu...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE SHUNAMITE AGAIN (vv.1-6) The Shunamite woman is typical of the godly remnant of Israel. She had learned the grace of God in giving new life...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Reign of Jehoram. B. C. 884. 16...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. The common soldiers of the Edomites, herein following the example of their captains.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Reign Of Jehoram, King of Judah ( 2 Kings 8:16-24 ). c. 848-841 BC Co-regent with Jehoshaphat from 853 BC. During the time that Jehoram of Jud...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 2 Kings 8:16 . Joram the son of Ahab —See Notes on chap. 2 Kings 3:1 . 2 Kings 8:18 . The daughter of Ahab...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 8:8 . Take a present. See on 1 Kings 14:3 . 2 Kings 8:10 . Thou mayest certainly recover. Aye, say as you all do, both physicians and...
The Biblical Illustrator

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Reign of Jehoram and of Ahaziah
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

So Joram went over to Zair, a fortified city of Idumea, and all the chariots with him, the full strength of his army; and he rose by night and smo...
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2 Kings 8:21

²¹ 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.

Related Commentaries of 2 Kings 8:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 8:21