And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
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Gill's Exposition
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, &c. To spy out the motion and situation of the enemy, and to give orders for the annoyance of them, and to see that his soldiers did their duty:…
Barnes' Notes
After this - Perhaps some years after - when the miracle and the kind treatment were alike forgotten.
This last paragraph of this chapter should, of right, have been the first of the next chapter, for it begins a new story, which is there continued and concluded. Here is,
I. The siege which the king…
Cambridge Bible
Benhadad besieges Samaria. The city suffers terribly from famine, and the king threatens to put Elisha to death (Not in Chronicles)
24. Ben-hadad Probably the same king who was defeated and submitted…
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