2 Koningen 6:18

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Toen zij dan tot hem afdaalden, bad Eliza tot den Heer en zeide: Sla dit volk met blindheid. En hij sloeg hen met blindheid, naar het woord van Eliza.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En toen zij tot hem afkwamen, bad Elisa en sprak: Heer, sla dit volk met blindheid. En Hij sloeg hen met blindheid, naar het woord van Elisa.

Staten Vertaling
Als zij nu tot hem afkwamen, bad Elisa tot den HEERE, en zeide: Sla toch dit volk met verblindheden. En Hij sloeg hen met verblindheden, naar het woord van Elisa.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Smite this people: Confound their sight, so that they may not know what they see; and so mistake one place for another. The word sanverim, rendered blindness, occurs only here and in Genesis 19:11 - see note. Deuteronomy 28:28, Job 5:14, Zechariah 12:4, John 9:39, John 12:40, Acts 13:11, Romans 11:7

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 13:4 - his hand 2 Kings 3:23 - This is blood 2 Kings 4:33 - prayed 2 Kings 6:17 - open his eyes Job 38:15 - from Jeremiah 36:26 - but Hosea 9:8 - with Luke 24:16 - General John 8:59 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when they came down to him,.... The Syrian army, from the hill on which they were first seen, who came down from thence to the bottom of the hill on which the city stood; and whither Elisha came out, in order both to meet them, and proceed on his journey to Samaria:

Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness; or "blindnesses" g; with great blindness, such as the men of Sodom were smitten with; the same word is here used as of them, Genesis 19:11

and he smote them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha; not in such manner that they could discern no object, for then they could not have followed Elisha; but their sight was so altered, that they knew not the objects they saw; they appeared quite otherwise to them than they were; they saw the city, but knew it not to be the same, and Elisha, but knew him not to be the man of God, though they might have some in the host that knew him personally.

g בסנורים "in caecitatibus", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They came down to him - The Syrians, who had been encamped on rising ground opposite the hill of Dothan, now descended and drew near to the city.

The blindness with which they were smitten was not real - blindness actual loss of sight - but a state of illusion in which a man sees things otherwise than as they are (compare 2 Kings 6:20).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 6:18. Smite this people - with blindness — Confound their sight so that they may not know what they see, and so mistake one place for another.