Teks -- 2 Kings 7:2 (NET)

7:2 An officer who was the king’s right-hand man responded to the prophet, “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” Elisha said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!”

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

Wesley: 2Ki 7:2 - Windows

Through which he could rain down corn, as once he did Manna.

JFB: 2Ki 7:2 - a lord on whose hand the king leaned

When an Eastern king walks or stands abroad in the open air, he always supports himself on the arm of the highest courtier present.

JFB: 2Ki 7:2 - if the Lord would make windows in heaven

The scoffing infidelity of this remark, which was a sneer against not the prophet only, but the God he served, was justly and signally punished (see 2Ki 7:20).

Clarke: 2Ki 7:2 - Then a lord

Then a lord - שליש shalish . This word, as a name of office, occurs often, and seems to point out one of the highest offices in the state. So unlikely was this prediction to be fulfilled, that he thought God must pour out wheat and barley from heaven before it could have a literal accomplishment

Clarke: 2Ki 7:2 - But shalt not eat thereof

But shalt not eat thereof - This was a mere prediction of his death, but not as a judgment for his unbelief; any person in his circumstances might have spoken as he did. He stated in effect that nothing but a miracle could procure the plenty predicted, and by a miracle alone was it done; and any person in his place might have been trodden to death by the crowd in the gate of Samaria.

TSK: 2Ki 7:2 - a lord // if the Lord // windows // thou shalt see it

a lord : etc. or, a lord which belonged to the king, leaning on his hand, 2Ki 5:18

if the Lord : Gen 18:12-14; Num 11:21-23; Psa 78:19-21, Psa 78:41

windows : Gen 7:11; Mal 3:10

thou shalt see it : 2Ki 7:17-20; Deu 3:27; 2Ch 20:20; Isa 7:9; Rom 3:3; 2Ti 2:13; Heb 3:17-19

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

Poole: 2Ki 7:2 - On whose hand the king leaned // If the Lord would make windows // Shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof

On whose hand the king leaned when he walked. See 2Ki 5:18 .

If the Lord would make windows through which he could rain down corn, as once he did manna.

Shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof a just punishment for such peremptory unbelief, whereby he made not only the prophet, but even God himself, (in whose name it was evident Elisha said and did this and other things,) a liar.

Haydock: 2Ki 7:2 - Lords // Flood-gates // Thereof

Lords. Hebrew shalish, "an officer" of the first rank, Exodus xiv. 7. Septuagint Greek: tristates, which Josephus explains of one who "commands a third part of the army." (Calmet) ---

Flood-gates. If corn should fall with the same abundance as water does from the cataracts of the Nile; or, Hebrew, "if the Lord should make windows," &c., to pour it down, (Calmet) could it possibly be so cheap? (Menochius) ---

Thereof. Thus his incredulity was punished, ver. 17. (Salien) ---

Reason must not pretend to reach the power of God, but ought to believe what he says. (Worthington)

Gill: 2Ki 7:2 - Then a lord, on whose hand the king leaned // answered the man of God // and said, behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? // and he said // behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof

Then a lord, on whose hand the king leaned,.... Not figuratively, in whom the king confided, but literally, on whose hand he rested, and by whom he was supported, being a form and matter of state, while he and Elisha were talking together, or on whom he leaned as he came to him; this was a principal lord, the third to the king, as his title seems to denote; the word by which the Septuagint renders it is by Suidas ^u interpreted of such that held three spears in the hand together; and this was an honourable post, for a king to lean on him; such state was used by the king of Syria, 2Ki 5:18 and by the kings and queens of Persia; so Gorionides ^w says of Esther, that on the third day; she put on her beautiful garments and glorious ornaments, and took two of her maidens with her, and put her right hand on one of them, and leaned upon her in a royal manner, or as was the manner of kings: the same

answered the man of God; the prophet of the Lord, as the Targum:

and said, behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? it is impossible it should be, if he was to open the windows of heaven as at the flood, and let down showers of wheat and barley, in like manner as he rained manna in the wilderness:

and he said; the prophet in reply to him:

behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof; wheat and barley sold at the above price, but should not taste of it, as a punishment of his unbelief.