Teks -- 2 Kings 7:3 (NET)

7:3 Now four men with a skin disease were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another, “Why are we just sitting here waiting to die?

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: 2Ki 7:3 - there were four leprous men

The account of the sudden raising of the siege and the unexpected supply given to the famishing inhabitants of Samaria, is introduced by a narrative of the visit and discovery, by these poor creatures, of the extraordinary flight of the Syrians.

JFB: 2Ki 7:3 - leprous men at the entering in of the gate

Living, perhaps, in some lazar house there (Lev 13:4-6; Num 5:3).

Clarke: 2Ki 7:3 - There were four leprous men

There were four leprous men - The Gemara in Sota, R. Sol. Jarchi, and others, say that these four lepers were Gehazi and his three sons

Clarke: 2Ki 7:3 - At the entering in of the gate

At the entering in of the gate - They were not permitted to mingle in civil society.

Defender: 2Ki 7:3 - the gate

The law forbade lepers to go inside the city (Lev 13:46)."

TSK: 2Ki 7:3 - four leprous // Why

four leprous : 2Ki 5:1, 2Ki 8:4; Lev 13:46; Num 5:2-4, Num 12:14

Why : 2Ki 7:4; Jer 8:14, Jer 27:13

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Ki 7:3 - At the entering in of the gate

At the entering in of the gate to wit, of the city, out of which they were shut by virtue of God’ s law, Lev 13:46 14:3 either the the dwelling place of the lepers was near the gate, or they were come very near to the gate, for fear of the Syrians.

Haydock: 2Ki 7:3 - Lepers

Lepers. They were excluded from society, though the laws of religion were ill observed in Israel. The Rabbins say, these four were Giezi and his three sons. (Calmet) ---

But this is without foundation, (Haydock) as Giezi was not yet a leper, chap. viii. 5. ---

Salien places that judgment two years later. (Haydock)

Gill: 2Ki 7:3 - And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate // and they said one to another, why sit we here until we die

And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate,.... Of the city of Samaria; lepers, according to the law, being obliged to be without the city and camp, Lev 13:46 these might have a dwelling assigned them near the gate; or they might get as near to it as they could, partly to obtain relief from the city, and partly for fear of the Syrians; these, the Jews say ^x, were Gehazi and his three sons, see 2Ki 5:27.

and they said one to another, why sit we here until we die? being ready to perish with hunger.