And the king rose in the night, and said to his servants, "I will tell you what the Syrians have prepared against us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, `When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.'"
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His servants - That is, “high officers of the household,” not mere domestics.
I will show you what the Syrians have done - Jeho…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
I will now show you. —“Suspicax est miseria” (Grotius). Such stratagems as Jehoram suspected are, however, common enough …
John Gill
JohnGill
And the king arose in the night
Upon the report made to him:
and he said unto his servants, I wil…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
Here we see Israel's needs supplied in a way they little expected, which should encourage us to depend upon the power and goodness of God in our gr…
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Albert Barnes
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