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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

even the young man the prophet

on 2 Kings 9:4-6

The narrator repeats the description, even the young man the prophet, twice in one sentence, as if underlining how small a figure carries this errand into a camp of captains. Pulled apart from his brethren into an inner chamber, Jehu is anointed with the same covenant phrase attached to David's own people, king over the people of the Lord, even over Israel, a title that still calls this apostate kingdom the Lord's own after years of Baal worship. Gill notes that no Loammi had yet been pronounced over them; the calf worship had not cancelled the claim.

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
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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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