2 Raja-raja 6:31

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu berkatalah raja: "Beginilah kiranya Allah menghukum aku, bahkan lebih dari pada itu, jika masih tinggal kepala Elisa bin Safat di atas tubuhnya pada hari ini."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu berkatalah raja: "Beginilah kiranya Allah menghukum aku, bahkan lebih dari pada itu, jika masih tinggal kepala Elisa bin Safat di atas tubuhnya pada hari ini."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka titah baginda: Demikianlah perbuatan Allah akan daku dan dipertambahkan-Nya pula, jikalau tiada pada hari ini juga kepada Elisa bin Safat itu dipancung dari pada tubuhnya.

Contextual Overview

²⁴ After this it chaunced, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered al his hoast and went vp, and besieged Samaria. ²⁵ But there was a great dearth in Samaria: and beholde, they besieged it, vntill an asses head was sold for fourescore siluer pence, and the fourth part of a cab of doues doung for fiue peeces of siluer. ²⁶ And as the king of Israel was goyng vpon the wal, there cryed a woman vnto him, saying: Help me my lord O king. ²⁷ He sayde: If the Lorde do not succour thee, wherwith can I helpe thee? with the barne, or with the wine presse? ²⁸ And the king sayde vnto her: What wilt thou? She aunswered: Yonder woman sayd vnto me, Bring thy sonne, that we may eate him to day, and we will eate myne to morowe. ²⁹ And so we dressed my sonne, and dyd eate him: And I sayde to her the other day, bring thy sonne, that we may eate him: And she hath hyd her sonne. ³⁰ And it came to passe, that when the king hearde the wordes of the woman, he rent his clothes, and went vp on the wall, and the people loked, and beholde he had a sackcloth vnder vpon his fleshe. ³¹ Then he sayd: God do so & more also to me, if the head of Elisa the sonne of Saphat shall stande on him this day. ³² But Elisa sate in his house (& the elders sate by him) And the king sent a man before him: but yer the messenger came to him, he sayd to the elders: haue ye not seene howe that the sonne of this murtherer hath sent to take away myne head? Be circumspect when the messenger commeth, and shut the doore, and hold him at the doore: Is not the sound of his maisters feete behynde him? ³³ While he yet talked with them: behold, the messenger came downe vnto him, & sayd, Behold, this euyl is of the Lorde: And what more shall I loke for of the Lorde?

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.