the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
2 YooKumkani 13:7
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
fifty horsemen: 1 Samuel 13:6, 1 Samuel 13:7, 1 Samuel 13:15, 1 Samuel 13:19-23, 1 Kings 20:15, 1 Kings 20:27, Isaiah 36:8
the king: 2 Kings 8:12, 2 Kings 10:32
like the dust: Psalms 18:42, Isaiah 41:2, Isaiah 41:15, Isaiah 41:16, Joel 3:14, *marg. Amos 1:3
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:62 - few in number 2 Samuel 22:43 - as small 2 Kings 10:35 - Jehoahaz 2 Kings 13:5 - a saviour 2 Kings 17:20 - delivered Psalms 107:39 - oppression Proverbs 14:28 - General Isaiah 21:10 - my threshing Isaiah 28:27 - threshed Hosea 9:6 - they Amos 4:10 - and have taken away your horses Amos 5:15 - the remnant
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen,.... This is to be connected with 2 Kings 13:4, the verses
2 Kings 12:5, being to be read in a parenthesis, as in our version, and to be understood of the king of Syria, who left no more to the king of Israel, not of the people of the land, but of his army, than fifty horsemen, all the rest being either taken and carried captive by him, or slain:
and ten chariots; military chariots, with the men they carried:
and ten thousand footmen; foot soldiers; to so small a number was his army reduced through wars with the Syrians:
for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing: as corn or chaff may be reduced to dust by too much threshing; or as mire and clay by treading on it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The meaning is that âhe, the king of Syriaâ (2 Kings 13:4 Hazael) limited the standing army of Jehoahaz.
Like the dust by threshing - An expression not only employed metaphorically, and importing defeat, conquest, and grinding oppression Jeremiah 51:33; Micah 4:12, but implying also the literal use of threshing-instruments in the execution of prisoners of war (marginal reference, and compare 2 Samuel 12:31).
