2 Kings 6:21 KJV — MannaFest

2 Kings 6:21

And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?

KJV

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ASV

And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?

WEB

And when the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”

YLT

And the king of Israel saith unto Elisha, at his seeing them, `Do I smite--do I smite--my father?'

DBT

And the king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite? shall I smite [them]?

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2 Kings — Two kingdoms on parallel but diverging arcs. Elisha's ministry; Samaria falls to Assyria in 722 BC; Jerusalem falls to Babylon in 586 BC. Prophets interpose; kings refuse; the exile comes — and closes on a whisper of covenant hope.

Author: Compiler anonymous; Jewish tradition attributes to Jeremiah (same as 1 Kings)
Date: Events c. 852–560 BC; closing coda places composition in the mid-exile, c. 560 BC

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2 Kings 5:13
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
2 Kings 8:9
So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben–hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
2 Kings 2:12
And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
Matthew 23:9
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
1 Samuel 26:8
Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.

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This was humane advice; it was contrary to the usage of war to put war captives to death in cold blood, even when taken by the point of the sword, much more those whom the miraculous power and providence of God had unexpectedly placed at his disposal.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

And, again, as if he longed for the assault, Shall I smite them? Perhaps, he remembered how God was displeased at his father for letting go out of his hands those whom he had put it in his power to destroy, and he would not offend in like manner; yet such a reverence has he for the prophet that he will not strike a stroke without his commission.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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2KI 6:211SA 24:4 1SA 26:23
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
2KI 6:212KI 2:12 2KI 13:14
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
2KI 6:211SA 24:4 1SA 26:8-11
2KI 6:211SA 24:4 1SA 24:10
2KI 6:212KI 5:13 REV 7:14
2KI 6:211SA 24:4 1SA 25:28-30
2KI 6:212KI 5:13 2KI 2:12
2KI 6:211SA 26:8 1SA 24:4

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