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2 Kings 9:4

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So the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

KJV

So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth–gilead.

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This verse in 2 Kings 9

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The young man the prophet - This should be translated, The servant of the prophet; that is, the servant which Elisha now had in place of Gehazi.

This site's exposition

the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead

on 2 Kings 9:4-6

The prophet poured the oil on his head, and the words add a title: king over the LORD’s people Israel. This covenant language, used of David's people, still calls this kingdom the LORD's own. Gill notes that Hosea 1:9, where God disowns Israel as His people, was still to come.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 9:1-24 · Written before 373.

proposed

"Then the prophet Elisha called a member of the company of prophets and said to him, 'Gird up your loins; take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.' " Here the Scripture reports the just sentence that befalls the house of …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

So the young man . . . went to Ramoth-gilead--His ready undertaking of this delicate and hazardous mission was an eminent proof of his piety and obedience. The act of anointing being done through a commissioned prophet, was a divine intimation of his investiture with the sovereign power.

The words behind it

6 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּ֧לֶךְand he went

    vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • הַנַּ֛עַרthe young man

    hanaarH5288 →239 times

  • הַנַּ֥עַרthe young man

    hanaarH5288 →239 times

  • הַנָּבִ֖יאthe prophet

    hanavi'H5030 →314 times

  • רָמֹ֥תRamoth

    ramotH7418 →22 times

  • גִּלְעָֽד׃Gilead

    giladH1568 →134 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

The Death of Jezebel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Death of Jezebel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
2 Kings: the study guide →Read 2 Kings 9 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ephrem the Syrian, ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 9:1-24; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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