And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
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Gill's Exposition
And Elisha sat in his house,.... In Samaria:
and the elders sat with him; not the elders of the city, or the magistrates thereof, but his disciples, as Josephus says (p), the eldest of them, whom he…
Barnes' Notes
Sackcloth - Jehoram hoped perhaps to avert Yahweh’s anger, as his father had done 1Ki 21:29. But there was no spirit of self-humiliation, or of true pentitence in his heart 2Ki 5:7. See the next…
Adam Clarke
He had sackcloth within upon his flesh - The king was in deep mourning for the distresses of the people.
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
and he passed by upon the wall The R.V. places these words in a parenthesis rendering (Now he was passing by upon the wall).
the people looked At such an appeal many would congregate beside the two…
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