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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

列王纪下 6:30

王起誓要殺以利沙王聽見那婦人的話,就撕裂衣服,他當時正在城牆上,人民都看見他;看哪,他裡面貼身穿著的是件麻衣。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Israel;   Mourning;   Rending;   Samaria;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dead, the;   Jehoram, or Joram;   Joram or Jehoram;   Joy-Sorrow;   Mourning;   Sackcloth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Walls;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ben-hadad;   Elisha;   Jehoram;   Sackcloth;   Samaria, samaritans;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Flesh;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Dress;   Jehoram;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Afterbirth;   King, Kingship;   Samaria, Samaritans;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jehoram;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Samaria;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sackcloth;   Samaria ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elisha;   Sackcloth;   Samaria;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;   Sackcloth,;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Sackcloth;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jehoahaz;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Flesh;   Sackcloth;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
王 听 见 妇 人 的 话 , 就 撕 裂 衣 服 ; ( 王 在 城 上 经 过 ) 百 姓 看 见 王 贴 身 穿 着 麻 衣 。

Contextual Overview

24 Later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathered his whole army and surrounded and attacked Samaria. 25 There was a shortage of food in Samaria. It was so bad that a donkey's head sold for about two pounds of silver, and half of a pint of dove's dung sold for about two ounces of silver. 26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman yelled out to him, "Help me, my master and king!" 27 The king said, "If the Lord doesn't help you, how can I? Can I get help from the threshing floor or from the winepress?" 28 Then the king said to her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we can eat him today. Then we will eat my son tomorrow.' 29 So we boiled my son and ate him. Then the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we can eat him.' But she had hidden him." 30 When the king heard the woman's words, he tore his clothes in grief. As he walked along the wall, the people looked and saw he had on rough cloth under his clothes to show his sadness. 31 He said, "May God punish me terribly if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat isn't cut off from his body today!" 32 The king sent a messenger to Elisha, who was sitting in his house with the elders. But before the messenger arrived, Elisha said to them, "See, this murderer is sending men to cut off my head. When the messenger arrives, shut the door and hold it; don't let him in. The sound of his master's feet is behind him." 33 Elisha was still talking with the leaders when the messenger arrived. The king said, "This trouble has come from the Lord . Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he rent his clothes: 2 Kings 5:7, 2 Kings 19:1, 1 Kings 21:27, Isaiah 58:5-7

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 3:7 - time to rend Isaiah 15:3 - their streets Jeremiah 48:37 - upon the loins Joel 2:13 - your garments

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes,.... At the horror of the fact reported, and through grief that his people were brought into such distress through famine:

and he passed by upon the wall; returning to his palace:

and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth upon his flesh; which, in token of humiliation for averting the calamities he was under, he had put there before, and now was seen through the rending of his clothes.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sackcloth - Jehoram hoped perhaps to avert Yahweh’s anger, as his father had done 1 Kings 21:29. But there was no spirit of self-humiliation, or of true pentitence in his heart 2 Kings 5:7. See the next verse.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 30. He had sackcloth within upon his flesh. — The king was in deep mourning for the distresses of the people.


 
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