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When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, Please smite this people with blindness. He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
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A Confusing Blindness
Commentators widely agree that the 'blindness' Elisha prayed for was not a total loss of sight. Instead, it was a divinely caused state of confusion and illusion. The Syrian soldiers could still see, but they couldn't recognize people or places correctly. Scholars note that the same rare Hebrew word is used for the men of Sodom in Genesis 19:11, suggesting a similar dazing bewilderment.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They came down to him: The Syrians, who had been encamped on the high ground opposite the hill of Dothan, now descended and drew near to the…
19th Century
Anglican
And when they came down to him. —This would mean that the Syrians came down to Elisha. But the prophet was, to begin with…
Baptist
In all this—though I grant you it seems like a stratagem—Elisha spoke neither more nor less than the truth. Dothan was not his city; Samaria was th…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when they came down to him The Syrian army, from the hill on which they were first seen, who came down from ther…
What Elisha said to his servant is spoken to all the faithful servants of God, when conflicts are without and fears are within. Do not fear with th…
