And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
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Gill's Exposition
And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father,.... Who was a good prince:
he turned not aside from doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord; in his moral conversation, religious worship,…
Barnes' Notes
They washed his armour - Rather, “the harlots bathed in it.” The “pool of Samaria,” which was stained with Ahab’s blood by the washing of his chariot in it, was, according to Josephus, the usual…
Adam Clarke
The dogs licked up his blood - Some of the rabbins think that this was in the very place where Naboth was stoned; see on Kg1 21:19 (note). The Septuagint translates this verse strangely: "And the…
The matter in contest between God's prophet and Ahab's prophets is here soon determined, and it is made to appear which was in the right. Here,
I. The two kings march with their forces to…
Cambridge Bible
Andone [R.V. they] washed the chariot in[R.V. by] the pool of Samaria The first change substitutes an English for a Hebrew idiom; the second renders more exactly the preposition of the original. It…
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