Women received their dead raised to life again : and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
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Gill's Exposition
They were stoned,.... As Naboth, by the order of Ahab, Kg1 21:13, Zachariah in the court of the Lord's house; Ch2 24:21 and the character of Jerusalem is, that she stoned the prophets that were sent…
Barnes' Notes
Women received their dead raised to life again - As in the case of the woman of Zarephath, whose child was restored to life by Elijah, 1Ki 17:19-24; and of the son of the Shunamite woman whose child…
Adam Clarke
Women received their dead - As did the widow of Zarephath, Kg1 17:21, and the Shunammite, Kg2 4:34. What other cases under all the above heads the apostle might have in view, we know not.
Others were…
The apostle having given us a classis of many eminent believers, whose names are mentioned and the particular trials and actings of their faith recorded, now concludes his narrative with a more…
Cambridge Bible
Women received their dead The woman of Sarepta (1Ki 17:22), the Shunamite (2Ki 4:32-36).
raised to life again Lit., "by resurrection."
were tortured The word means, technically, "were broken on the…
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