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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 7 This chapter begins with a prophecy of great plenty in Samaria on the morrow, and of the death of an unbelieving lord, 2 Kings 7:1, relates the case of four lepers, who that night went into the Syrian camp, which was deserted, occasioned by the noise of chariots, horses, and a host, which they fancied they heard, 2 Kings 7:3, the report which the lepers made to the...
John Gill
So they came and called to the porter of the city,.... The chief of those that had the care of the gate of it; for there were more than one, as follows: and they told them; the porter, and the watchmen with him: we came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man; not one to be seen or heard: but horses tied, and asses tied; to their mangers; the latter,...
Matthew Henry
Relief is here brought to Samaria and her king, when the case is, in a manner, desperate, and the king despairing. I. It is foretold by Elisha, and an unbelieving lord shut out from the benefit of it, ver. 1, 2. II. It is brought about, 1. By an unaccountable fright into which God put the Syrians (ver. 6), which caused them to retire precipitately, ver. 7. 2. By the seasonable discovery which...