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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

列王纪下 6:31

他說:“如果今日沙法的兒子以利沙的頭仍留在他身上,願 神懲罰我,而且加倍懲罰我。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Elisha;   Israel;   Malice;   Oath;   Persecution;   Samaria;   Shaphat;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Head;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ben-hadad;   Elisha;   Jehoram;   Samaria, samaritans;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jehoram;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Afterbirth;   Capital Punishment;   Crimes and Punishments;   King, Kingship;   Shaphat;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jehoram;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Samaria;   Shaphat;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Samaria ;   Shaphat ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elisha;   Samaria;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;   Sha'phat;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elisha;   Oath;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Beheading;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
王 说 : 我 今 日 若 容 沙 法 的 儿 子 以 利 沙 的 头 仍 在 他 项 上 , 愿   神 重 重 地 降 罚 与 我 !

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

God do so: Ruth 1:17, 1 Samuel 3:17, 1 Samuel 14:44, 1 Samuel 25:22, 2 Samuel 3:9, 2 Samuel 3:35, 2 Samuel 19:13, 1 Kings 2:23

if the head: 1 Kings 18:17, 1 Kings 19:2, 1 Kings 22:8, Jeremiah 37:15, Jeremiah 37:16, Jeremiah 38:4, John 11:50, Acts 23:12, Acts 23:13

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:4 - to do evil 2 Kings 3:2 - wrought 2 Kings 5:20 - as the Lord liveth Proverbs 16:14 - messengers Ecclesiastes 10:13 - beginning Jeremiah 32:3 - Zedekiah Matthew 14:9 - the oath's Mark 6:23 - he Luke 6:23 - for in

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then he said, God do so and more also to me,.... He swore and made dreadful imprecations:

if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day; imputing the sore famine to him, because he had foretold it, and did not pray for the removal of it, as he might; and perhaps had advised and encouraged the king to hold out the siege, which had brought them to this extremity, and therefore was enraged at him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

God do so ... - Jehoram uses almost the very words of his wicked mother, when she sought the life of Elijah (marginal reference).

The head of Elisha - Beheading was not an ordinary Jewish punishment. The Law did not sanction it. But in Assyria, Babylonia, and generally through the East, it was the most conmon form of capital punishment. It is not quite clear why Elisha was to be punished. Perhaps Jehoram argued from his other miracles that he could give deliverance from the present peril, if he liked.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 31. If the head of Elisha - shall stand on him — Either he attributed these calamities to the prophet, or else he thought he could remove them, and yet would not. The miserable king was driven to desperation.


 
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