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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links 2017 November 28
Market Scene (c. 1550)
Pieter Aertsen (1508-1575)
Northern Mannerism Style
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art
SPECIAL NOTE:
[ I will again be working through the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. I will be adding links, resources, images, and the like, upgrading the former work-through which began with the 2013-10-12 posting which can be found, along with the full Genesis to Revelation postings, in the Archive Page. Postings will be at midnight Eastern Time, as I am able. However, no chapters will be skipped, even though a posting may be late. And all postings will be housed in the Archive Page. ]
Explanation: 2 Kings 7 concludes the siege and famine narrative begun in the previous chapter. [Kings of Judah and Israel Chart].
Elisha predicted that abundant food would be available on the next day. The king's chief aid scoffed at this statement; and Elisha told him he would see it but would not eat of it (1-2).
That day, around twilight, four leprous men were sitting by the city gate and they decided to surrender to the Syrians, regardless of the consequences, rather than going into the city where the famine was or sitting by the gate waiting to die. When they got to the Syrian camp, they found it abandoned, with tents, animals, food, gold, silver, and clothing left behind, because the LORD had caused them to hear a noise of a great army; and they thought that Israel had hired the Hittites and the Egyptians to come against them. So the lepers began to hoard all that they found (3-8).
But they realized that this news should be shared with the people of Samaria; so they came and told the porter of the city. And the king and his servants arose in the night; and the king said that the Syrians were laying a trap for them. So some of the king's servants followed the Syrians to the Jordan and found the path strewn with garments and vessels (9-15).
So the people of the city came out and spoiled the tents of the Syrians; and food was abundant. And in their haste to get the spoils, the people trampled and killed the man who had scoffed at Elisha (16-20).
[ Sermons: Charles Alexander. Sinclair B Ferguson. Various. ]
[ Illustration: The painting above represents the abundance of food which was available less than a day after the Syrian army fled from Israel's territory, as recorded in today's chapter. ]
RESOURCES
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[ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: 2 Kings 7:
[Chapter 7: Related Scriptures: 2 Kings 6.] .
[11] 1 Kings 18:32; 2 Kings 6:25; Genesis 18:6.
[2] 2 Samuel 23:8; 1 Kings 9:22; 1 Chronicles 11:11; 2 Kings 5:18; Genesis 7:11; 2 Kings 5:26.
[3] Leviticus 13:46; Numbers 5:2-3.
[6] 2 Kings 6:14; 1 Kings 9:20; 1 Kings 10:29; Genesis 23; Genesis 26:34; 1 Samuel 31:6; Amos 6:2; 2 Chronicles 8:4; Psalm 3:3; 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 17:30; 2 Chronicles 28:16.
[7] Genesis 32:9; 1 Kings 19:3.
[9] Psalm 2:10.
[10] 2 Kings 7:11.
[11] 2 Kings 7:10.
[13] 2 Kings 2:9; 2 Kings 4:41; Leviticus 26:8; Isaiah 30:17.
[15] 1 Samuel 23:6; Psalm 48:6; Psalm 104:7.
-- From Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
HARMONY OF THE LAW
HEBREW AND GREEK INTERLINEAR BIBLES
1 Kings Detailed Outline
2 Kings 7
Notes: In the Hebrew Bible 1 Kings and 2 Kings were one Book. Overlapping dates for various kings indicate overlapping reigns (co-regencies).
1. The Reign of Solomon (1 Kings 1:1 - 1 Kings 11:43) - 971 - 931 B.C. Israel
2. The Divided Kingdom (1 Kings 12:1 - 2 Kings 25:30) - 931 - 560 B.C. Israel
M. Joram of Israel (2 Kings 2:1 - 8:15) - {852-841 B.C.}
3. Further Events with Elishah (2 Kings 4:1 - 8:15)
1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
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.
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 die?
4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrowabout this time in the gate of Samaria:
19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
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