2 Kings 6:24 KJV — MannaFest

2 Kings 6:24

And it came to pass after this, that Ben–hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

KJV

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ASV

And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

WEB

Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.

YLT

And it cometh to pass afterwards, that Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathereth all his camp, and goeth up, and layeth siege to Samaria,

DBT

And it came to pass after this that Ben-Hadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

About this book

Old Testament

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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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Cross-references

12 verses on the floor

1 Kings 20:1
And Ben–hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
2 Kings 8:7
And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben–hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
Deuteronomy 28:52
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.
1 Kings 22:31
But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
2 Kings 17:5
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

There are base spirits that can never feel obliged. The country, we may suppose, was plundered and laid waste when this capital city was brought to the last extremity,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Concerning the sons of the prophets, and their condition and character. The college here spoken of seems to be that at Gilgal, for there Elisha was ( ch. iv. 38 ), and it was near Jordan; and, probably, wherever Elisha resided as many as could of the sons of the prophets flocked to him for the advantage of his instructions, counsels, and prayers.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Ben-hadad - He whom Ahab wickedly spared, now comes to requite his kindness, and to fulfil that Divine prediction. Ben- hadad was a name very frequent among the kings of Syria, if not common to them all.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Word trails from this verse

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H669638× in canon H113050× in canon H8111109× in canon H758143× in canon H4264215× in canon

Evidence1

What the record shows

Ben-hadad (son of Hadadezer) — attested in contemporary inscriptiontier 1 · undisputed
Melqart stele
Biblical figure (King of Aram-Damascus, 844/842 BC) identified in extra-biblical epigraphy.

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