*1 Samuel 28:14 / *1 Sam. 28:14 -
The original Hebrew word (me`iyl: H4598) translated as "mantle" can mean a "robe" (1 Samuel 24:4,11; 1 Samuel 18:4; 2 Samuel 13:18).
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*1 Samuel 28:15-19 / *1 Sam. 28:15 -
Just as what Samuel prophesied to Saul came to pass (1 Samuel 28:15-19; 1 Samuel 31:1-7), so the Third Secret of Fatima and the Akita prophecy could come to pass.
(See the "Fatima" section of Revelation 13:11 below)
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*2 Samuel 2:16 / *2 Sam. 2:16 -
"Helkath-hazzurim" (H2521) is made up of two words (H2520, H6697; compare H2513, H6696) which could mean "Field (helkath) of the Adversaries (hazzurim)".
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*2 Samuel 7:17 / *2 Sam. 7:17 -
The original Hebrew word (chizzayown: H2384) translated as "vision" can simply mean "revelation", even one which is only heard in one's mind.
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*2 Samuel 12:9,13 / *2 Sam. 12:9 -
(Re: Are there any examples of God forgiving *murder?)
2 Samuel 12:9,13
Acts 9; 1 Timothy 1:13
Luke 23:33-34
(cf. Mark 3:28-29; 1 John 1:9, Hebrews 10:26-29)
But see section 2 of Revelation 21:8 below. Also, see Matthew 5:39 below.
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*2 Samuel 12:11-12 / *2 Sam. 12:11 -
This was fulfilled by Absalom (2 Samuel 16:22).
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*2 Samuel 12:25 / *2 Sam. 12:25 -
"Jedidiah" (H3041) is made up of two words (H3039, H3050) which mean "Beloved (jedid) by YHWH (Iah)".
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*2 Samuel 12:31 / *2 Sam. 12:31 -
The original Hebrew word (suwm: H7760) translated as "put them under" (saws, harrows, axes) means here that King David forced the defeated Ammonites to become laborers for Israel, producing lumber, threshing harvests, cutting forests, etc. Compare what Joshua 9:21 says.
The Hebrew word (chariyts: H2757) translated as "harrows" means "threshing sledges".
The Hebrew word (`abar: H5674) translated as "pass through" (the brick-kiln) means here that David forced the defeated Ammonites to "carry over" (the bricks of) a heavy brick-kiln from Ammon to Israel, crossing the Jordan River. (Ammon was east of the Jordan River, in what is today called the country of Jordan.)
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*2 Samuel 15:7 / *2 Sam. 15:7 -
The original Hebrew word ('arba`: H0702) translated as "forty" in its singular form means "four", and in its plural form (as here) means "multiple fours", not necessarily 10 fours, or 40.
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*2 Samuel 15:18 / *2 Sam. 15:18 -
"Pelethites" (H6432) is derived from "Peleth" (H6431) which can mean "swiftness" (Strong's Hebrew Dictionary). That is, the Pelethites may have been fast runners employed by David as messengers, and/or as a particular type of light infantry used in swift tactical maneuvers during battles. Or, the name Pelethites could have referred to mercenaries who were from a particular tribe of foreigners, just as the Gittites in 2 Samuel 15:18 were foreign soldiers in David's service from the Philistine city of Gath.
(Compare Ezekiel 25:16 below)
Also, compare how the Israel Defence Forces today are willing to include Druze Arabs in their military, some of whom are even in key, officer positions, because of their military skill, prudence, and loyalty, which they have shown in the past; just as the foreign Cherethites, Pelethites, and Gittites in 2 Samuel 15:18 showed their loyalty to David even in his time of need.
(See also the "Druze" section of Revelation 13:4 below)
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*2 Samuel 16:7 / *2 Sam. 16:7 -
The original Hebrew word transliterated as "Belial" (H1100: pronounced bel-e-yah'-al) is made up of two words (beliy: H1097; and ya`al: H3276) which together can mean "worthless" (Strong's Hebrew Dictionary). So "a man of Belial" can mean "a worthless person". The word belial can also be translated as "evil", such as to refer to an "evil" disease (Psalms 41:8). And it can be used to refer to "ungodly" (Proverbs 19:28) or "wicked" people (Nahum 1:15b). The apostle Paul even uses the Greek form of "Belial" (G0955: pronounced bel-ee'-al) as an epithet for Satan himself (2 Corinthians 6:15), the epitome of wickedness; just as wicked people can be figuratively called either "sons of Belial" (Judges 19:22), or sons of the devil (John 8:44-47). The English word "Belial" is pronounced be'-le-ul, not be-lie'-ul.
(Compare also section 2 of Revelation 22:15 below)
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*2 Samuel 17:9 / *2 Sam. 17:9 -
Here Hushai refers to a key point with regard to any coup d'etat: You have to be certain of killing or capturing the top leader of the regime which you are trying to overthrow. This was why, for example, the relatively recent coup d'etat in Turkey failed: It was unable to kill or capture Erdogan, despite all of its meticulous planning. If it had killed or captured Erdogan, no doubt the rest of his military would have abandoned him without any problem, just as the Turkish military in the past has repeatedly and successfully committed coups d'etat in Turkey. (Watch next for a Baathist coup d'etat in Iraq.)
(See the "War" section of Revelation 13:5 below)
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*2 Samuel 17:15-22 / *2 Sam. 17:15 -
Note this elaborate, although compromised, spy ring which King David set up to get life-or-death intelligence from Absalom's court (2 Samuel 15:32-37). Also, note the similarity of how two of David's spies were hidden from Absalom's counterintelligence agents (2 Samuel 17:18-21) with how two of Joshua's spies had been hidden (some 400 years earlier) from the king of Jericho's counterintelligence agents (Joshua 2).
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*2 Samuel 17:23 / *2 Sam. 17:23 -
Ahithophel could have hanged himself not out of mere pique, but because he knew that his better counsel (2 Samuel 17:14b) not being followed would result in David eventually returning to Jerusalem and slaying him as a horrible traitor (2 Samuel 17:1-2).
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*2 Samuel 18:14 / *2 Sam. 18:14 -
The original Hebrew word (shebet: H7626) translated as "darts" can mean something as large as a "sceptre" (Genesis 49:10), "rod" (Exodus 21:20), or "staff" (2 Samuel 23:21), or something as small as a writer's "pen" (Judges 5:14), and so what we today would still call a "dart". So Joab could have stabbed Absalom's heart with anything from, for example, three spears to three arrows. The KJV was no doubt using "dart" in its archaic sense of "a light spear" (Webster's).
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*2 Samuel 18:17 / *2 Sam. 18:17 -
This hasty and dishonorable burial could have been ordered by Joab to forever hide Absalom's mutilated body from the sight of David. For ten young men beating and stabbing at Absalom's body in 2 Samuel 18:15 could have resulted in the body's total mutilation, even after David had expressly commanded that Absalom be treated gently (2 Samuel 18:5,12). David could have forborne to order a subsequent exhumation and proper burial of his son and prince after Joab's warning in 2 Samuel 19:6b-7 made David fear for his own life at the hands of the people. David could not control Joab (2 Samuel 3:27-39), who was David's top military commander (2 Samuel 8:16), even though Joab remained loyal to David to the end.
David was not loyal to Joab, but even chose Amasa, Absalom's top military commander (2 Samuel 17:25), over Joab (2 Samuel 19:13). (Joab then simply murdered Amasa: 2 Samuel 20:10.) Also, David would eventually get his vengeance on Joab through David's son Solomon (1 Kings 2:5-6), whom Joab was not loyal to, but instead supported another son of David named Adonijah (1 Kings 1:5 to 2:34).
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*2 Samuel 21:16 / *2 Sam. 21:16 -
(Shekels)
See 1 Samuel 17:5 above...
So Ishbi-benob's spear weighing "three hundred shekels" means that it was 300 x 0.576 ounces, or 172.8 ounces; divided by 16 would be about 11 pounds, or about 5 kilos. And this could be just the spearhead, like how just Goliath's spearhead was over 20 pounds (1 Samuel 17:7), or over 9 kilos.
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*2 Samuel 22:33b / *2 Sam. 22:33b -
God makes the way of saved people perfect (2 Samuel 22:33b, Psalms 18:32) only so long as they repent from every sin that they commit and confess it to God (1 John 1:9, Hebrews 10:26-29).
(See Hebrews 10:26 below)
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*2 Samuel 23:5 / *2 Sam. 23:5 -
The original Hebrew word (tsamach: H6779) translated as "grow" can mean "spring forth".
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*1 Kings 4:22 / *1 Kin. 4:22 -
The original Hebrew word (kor: H3734) translated as "measures" referred to the same thing as the "homer".
(See Numbers 11:32 above)
The Hebrew word's Greek form (koros: G2884) is used in Luke 16:7.
So Solomon requiring each day thirty kors of flour, plus sixty kors of meal, means that he required ninety kors, or 90 x 50 gallons-dry, or 4,500 gallons-dry, of grain per day. This, of course, would reflect not the size of Solomon's own appetite, or even of his most-extended family, but means that he also had thousands of servants (including protective soldiers) to feed each day. Compare his lament in Ecclesiastes 5:11.
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*1 Kings 7:9 / *1 Kin. 7:9 -
The original Hebrew word (tephach: H2947) translated as "coping", like the English word, can refer to the top part of a wall.
Perhaps this is also the origin of what we today call "coping", in the sense of being able to handle things, get on top of them, instead of being weighed down helpless beneath them.
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*1 Kings 7:18 / *1 Kin. 7:18 -
The original Hebrew word (kothereth: H3805) translated as "chapiter", like the English word, can refer to a "capital", in the sense of the top part of an architectural column.
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*1 Kings 7:20 / *1 Kin. 7:20 -
The original Hebrew word (beten: H0990) translated as "belly" can mean the "body" of something, in this case the body (in the sense of the main part) of the capital.
The Hebrew word (sebakah: H7639) translated as "network" can refer to a "wreath" (2 Chronicles 4:12-13).
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*1 Kings 7:21 / *1 Kin. 7:21 -
"Jachin" (H3199) is made up of two words (H3050, H3559) which mean "YHWH (Ja) will establish (chin)".
"Boaz" (H1162) could mean: "In Him is strength".
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*1 Kings 7:23 / *1 Kin. 7:23 -
(Re: *Pi)
1 Kings 7:23 is not saying (as is sometimes claimed) that pi = 3.0, instead of 3.14. For all that 1 Kings 7:23 is saying is that a brass basin ten cubits in diameter had a circumference of thirty cubits, which could have simply been rounded down from a circumference of 31.4 cubits. Or, the ten-cubit diameter could have been rounded up from 9.55 cubits, which would have resulted in a circumference of thirty cubits. Or, neither the ten-cubit-diameter figure nor the thirty-cubit-circumference figure was meant to be taken as an exact figure accurate to the hundredth of a cubit. For 1 Kings 7:23 is not giving a blueprint description of the basin, nor is it giving a geometry lesson. Instead, it is simply giving a general account of how big the basin was.
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*1 Kings 7:26 / *1 Kin. 7:26 -
A "bath" (H1324) was about six gallons, or 23 liters.
So the brass basin containing "two thousand baths" means that it could hold 12,000 gallons, or about 45,000 liters.
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*1 Kings 7:28-29 / *1 Kin. 7:28 -
The original Hebrew word (micgereth: H4526) translated as "borders" could refer to "panels", in this case decorated side panels.
The Hebrew word (shalab: H7948) translated as "ledges" could refer to uprights into which a panel was fitted.
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*1 Kings 7:33 / *1 Kin. 7:33 -
The original Hebrew word (yad: H3027) translated as "axletrees", like the English word, could refer to "axles".
The Hebrew word (gab: H1354) translated as "naves" could refer to the "rims" of wheels.
The Hebrew word (chishshuq: H2839) translated as "felloes" could refer to the "spokes" of wheels.
The Hebrew word (chishshur: H2840) translated as "spokes" could refer to the "hubs" of wheels.
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*1 Kings 8:37 / *1 Kin. 8:37 -
The original Hebrew word (shedephah: H7711) translated as "blasting" could refer to "blight", in the sense of the withering of plants.
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*1 Kings 8:56 / *1 Kin. 8:56 -
See Joshua 21:43 above.
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*1 Kings 9:13 / *1 Kin. 9:13 -
"Cabul" (H3521) could mean "sterile", in the sense that the region was unproductive (with regard to wealth accumulation, such as through trade), with its people living at subsistence levels (okay for them, but not for a king wanting to gain more wealth for himself off of their labor).
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*1 Kings 9:24 / *1 Kin. 9:24 -
"Millo" (H4407) could refer to a citadel in Jerusalem.
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*1 Kings 10:1 / *1 Kin. 10:1 -
"Sheba" (H7614) could refer to a kingdom in southwest Arabia.
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*1 Kings 10:2 / *1 Kin. 10:2 -
The original Hebrew word (chayil: H2428) translated as "train", like the English word, can refer to people who accompany someone. So the queen of Sheba having "a very great train" can mean that she came with a lot of people (2 Chronicles 9:1).
Also, it should be pointed out that the Falashas claim that the queen of Sheba had sexual relations with Solomon and as a result gave birth to a son named Menelik, from whom they claim descent. They keep the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law, and in modern times were rescued from famine in Ethiopia by being airlifted to Israel.
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*1 Kings 10:11 / *1 Kin. 10:11 -
"Ophir" (H0211) could refer to a kingdom in south Arabia.
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*1 Kings 10:16 / *1 Kin. 10:16 -
The original Hebrew word (tsinnah: H6793) translated as "targets" could refer to large shields.
~
(Shekels)
See 1 Samuel 17:5 above...
So each shield being made from "six hundred shekels" of gold would mean that each shield weighed 600 x 0.576 ounces, or 345.6 ounces; divided by 16 would be about 22 pounds each, or about 10 kilos each.
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*1 Kings 10:17 / *1 Kin. 10:17 -
The original Hebrew word (maneh: H4488) translated as "pound" referred to a "maneh/mina", which could refer to 100 shekels (3.6 pounds).
So each of the smaller shields being made from "three minas" could mean 300 shekels (11 pounds), or half the weight of the large shields in the prior verse (see above). This is also what the parallel verse of 2 Chronicles 9:16 shows.
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*1 Kings 10:19 / *1 Kin. 10:19 -
The original Hebrew word (yad: H3027) translated as "stays" could refer to armrests.
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*1 Kings 10:22 / *1 Kin. 10:22 -
The Hebrew words ('oniy: H0590; and Tarshiysh: H8659) translated as "navy of Tharshish" could refer to any fleet of large, merchant ships, of whatever nation.
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*1 Kings 10:24 / *1 Kin. 10:24 -
(Re: Revelation 17:18)
1 Kings 10:24, like Luke 11:31, refers only to Solomon's wisdom, not to Jerusalem actually reigning over the kings of the earth.
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*1 Kings 11:1 / *1 Kin. 11:1 -
The original Hebrew word (nokriy: H5237) translated as "strange" can mean "foreign" (Deuteronomy 15:3).
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*1 Kings 12:28 / *1 Kin. 12:28 -
("Thy gods" = Elohim)
Compare paragraphs 4-7 of Leviticus 26:1(space) above.
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*1 Kings 14:3 / *1 Kin. 14:3 -
The original Hebrew word (niqqud: H5350) translated as "cracknels", like the English word, can refer to hard biscuits.
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*1 Kings 18:32 / *1 Kin. 18:32 -
The original Hebrew word (ce'ah: H5429) translated as "measures" refers to a "seah", which could fill a 17-gallon jar.
So Elijah digging a circular trench which could hold "two seahs" would mean that it could hold 34 gallons, or about 130 liters.
(Compare John 2:6 below)
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*2 Kings 2:11 / *2 Kin. 2:11 -
The original Hebrew word (shamayim: H8064) translated as "heaven" can refer to the third heaven, where God's throne is (1 Kings 22:19; Psalms 11:4), just as the apostle Paul said that he at one point during his lifetime could have been temporarily taken bodily to the third heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2), and just as the apostle John at one point during his lifetime was temporarily taken to God's throne in the third heaven (Revelation 4:1-2).
(See 2 Corinthians 12:2 below)
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*2 Kings 3:15 / *2 Kin. 3:15 -
(Re: Revelation 13:16)
2 Kings 3:15 does not refer to a physical hand, whereas Revelation 13:16 does refer to a physical hand or forehead receiving a physical mark.
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*2 Kings 3:27 / *2 Kin. 3:27 -
(Re: *Devils / *gods)
Here the sacrifice by the king of Moab (2 Kings 3:26) could have been made to the false god Chemosh (1 Kings 11:33), who could have then unleashed his wrath against Israel. For Chemosh could be a devil (1 Corinthians 10:20), that is, a fallen-angelic being; and devils can unleash their wrath against people (Revelation 12:12b). Devils have real power (Revelation 2:10, Ephesians 6:12, Luke 13:16), just as even human "gods" (John 10:34) have real power (Romans 13:4). But (upper case) God's/Jesus' power is greater (Luke 10:17-20), just as the power of even God's unfallen angels is greater (Revelation 12:7-9, Daniel 10:13). For God (YHWH) has always been, is now, and forever will be the only God (Isaiah 45:5-6, Isaiah 43:10b).
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*2 Kings 6:25 / *2 Kin. 6:25 -
A "cab" (H6894) could refer to a scoopful, or it could refer to about two quarts. So "the fourth part of a cab" could have been about a pint, or about half a liter.
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*2 Kings 8:26 / *2 Kin. 8:26 -
(Two and twenty years old)
See 2 Chronicles 22:2 below.
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*2 Kings 9:1 / *2 Kin. 9:1 -
The original Hebrew word (pak: H6378) translated as "box" can mean "vial" (1 Samuel 10:1).
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*2 Kings 9:2 / *2 Kin. 9:2 -
The original Hebrew word (bow': H0935) translated as "carry" can mean "bring" (Genesis 42:20).
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*2 Kings 10:27 / *2 Kin. 10:27 -
The original Hebrew word (mowtsa'ah: H4163) translated as "draught house" could refer to an outhouse, or privy.
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*2 Kings 11:8 / *2 Kin. 11:8 -
(Ranges / H7713)
See 2 Chronicles 23:14 below.
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*2 Kings 12:20 / *2 Kin. 12:20 -
"Silla" (H5538) could refer to an embankment protecting Jerusalem.
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(Millo)
See 1 Kings 9:24 above.
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*2 Kings chapters 13-15 / *2 Kin. chs. 13-15 -
These chapters refer to the four successive kings of the northern kingdom of Israel who were descended from King Jehu: Jehoahaz, Joash/Jehoash, Jeroboam II, and Zachariah, who were the four-generation dynasty promised to Jehu by YHWH God in 2 Kings 10:30, and referred back to in 2 Kings 15:12. YHWH God keeps His word.
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*2 Kings 13:14b / *2 Kin. 13:14b -
Note that nothing requires that this was a vision, instead of just a statement by Joash. Also, it does not matter if the chariot which had previously taken Elijah into heaven was spiritual: It was still real, and so it was able to take Elijah physically into heaven (2 Kings 2:11). Joash's statement in 2 Kings 13:14b could mean that Joash wanted God to send a chariot to take Elisha alive into heaven in the same manner that God had sent a chariot to take Elijah alive into heaven. Elisha made the statement in 2 Kings 2:12 only after he saw the means by which Elijah was taken alive into heaven, not a means by which Elijah was to be killed. God also physically took Enoch alive into heaven, so that he would not see death (Hebrews 11:5).
(See also John 3:13 below)
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*2 Kings 15:19-20 / *2 Kin. 15:19 -
1 Chronicles 5:26 shows that in 2 Kings 15:19-20, "Pul", king of Assyria, is another name for "Tilgath-pilneser" (H8407), also transliterated as "Tiglath-pileser" (H8407) (2 Kings 15:29). He is known to historians as Tiglath-Pileser III.
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*2 Kings 16:9 / *2 Kin. 16:9 -
Note that this, like Jeremiah 49:23-27, makes no reference to all of the buildings in Damascus being destroyed. For the subsequent verse in 2 Kings 16 refers to Damascus still existing as a city, with even a still-existing altar (2 Kings 16:10). Also, 2 Kings 16:9, like Jeremiah 49:23-27, makes no reference to all of Damascus' people being killed or taken into captivity. Compare the partial captivity of Jerusalem in Jeremiah 52:16.
(See also Isaiah 17:1 below)
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The original Hebrew word (me`iyl: H4598) translated as "mantle" can mean a "robe" (1 Samuel 24:4,11; 1 Samuel 18:4; 2 Samuel 13:18).
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*1 Samuel 28:15-19 / *1 Sam. 28:15 -
Just as what Samuel prophesied to Saul came to pass (1 Samuel 28:15-19; 1 Samuel 31:1-7), so the Third Secret of Fatima and the Akita prophecy could come to pass.
(See the "Fatima" section of Revelation 13:11 below)
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*2 Samuel 2:16 / *2 Sam. 2:16 -
"Helkath-hazzurim" (H2521) is made up of two words (H2520, H6697; compare H2513, H6696) which could mean "Field (helkath) of the Adversaries (hazzurim)".
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*2 Samuel 7:17 / *2 Sam. 7:17 -
The original Hebrew word (chizzayown: H2384) translated as "vision" can simply mean "revelation", even one which is only heard in one's mind.
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*2 Samuel 12:9,13 / *2 Sam. 12:9 -
(Re: Are there any examples of God forgiving *murder?)
2 Samuel 12:9,13
Acts 9; 1 Timothy 1:13
Luke 23:33-34
(cf. Mark 3:28-29; 1 John 1:9, Hebrews 10:26-29)
But see section 2 of Revelation 21:8 below. Also, see Matthew 5:39 below.
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*2 Samuel 12:11-12 / *2 Sam. 12:11 -
This was fulfilled by Absalom (2 Samuel 16:22).
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*2 Samuel 12:25 / *2 Sam. 12:25 -
"Jedidiah" (H3041) is made up of two words (H3039, H3050) which mean "Beloved (jedid) by YHWH (Iah)".
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*2 Samuel 12:31 / *2 Sam. 12:31 -
The original Hebrew word (suwm: H7760) translated as "put them under" (saws, harrows, axes) means here that King David forced the defeated Ammonites to become laborers for Israel, producing lumber, threshing harvests, cutting forests, etc. Compare what Joshua 9:21 says.
The Hebrew word (chariyts: H2757) translated as "harrows" means "threshing sledges".
The Hebrew word (`abar: H5674) translated as "pass through" (the brick-kiln) means here that David forced the defeated Ammonites to "carry over" (the bricks of) a heavy brick-kiln from Ammon to Israel, crossing the Jordan River. (Ammon was east of the Jordan River, in what is today called the country of Jordan.)
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*2 Samuel 15:7 / *2 Sam. 15:7 -
The original Hebrew word ('arba`: H0702) translated as "forty" in its singular form means "four", and in its plural form (as here) means "multiple fours", not necessarily 10 fours, or 40.
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*2 Samuel 15:18 / *2 Sam. 15:18 -
"Pelethites" (H6432) is derived from "Peleth" (H6431) which can mean "swiftness" (Strong's Hebrew Dictionary). That is, the Pelethites may have been fast runners employed by David as messengers, and/or as a particular type of light infantry used in swift tactical maneuvers during battles. Or, the name Pelethites could have referred to mercenaries who were from a particular tribe of foreigners, just as the Gittites in 2 Samuel 15:18 were foreign soldiers in David's service from the Philistine city of Gath.
(Compare Ezekiel 25:16 below)
Also, compare how the Israel Defence Forces today are willing to include Druze Arabs in their military, some of whom are even in key, officer positions, because of their military skill, prudence, and loyalty, which they have shown in the past; just as the foreign Cherethites, Pelethites, and Gittites in 2 Samuel 15:18 showed their loyalty to David even in his time of need.
(See also the "Druze" section of Revelation 13:4 below)
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*2 Samuel 16:7 / *2 Sam. 16:7 -
The original Hebrew word transliterated as "Belial" (H1100: pronounced bel-e-yah'-al) is made up of two words (beliy: H1097; and ya`al: H3276) which together can mean "worthless" (Strong's Hebrew Dictionary). So "a man of Belial" can mean "a worthless person". The word belial can also be translated as "evil", such as to refer to an "evil" disease (Psalms 41:8). And it can be used to refer to "ungodly" (Proverbs 19:28) or "wicked" people (Nahum 1:15b). The apostle Paul even uses the Greek form of "Belial" (G0955: pronounced bel-ee'-al) as an epithet for Satan himself (2 Corinthians 6:15), the epitome of wickedness; just as wicked people can be figuratively called either "sons of Belial" (Judges 19:22), or sons of the devil (John 8:44-47). The English word "Belial" is pronounced be'-le-ul, not be-lie'-ul.
(Compare also section 2 of Revelation 22:15 below)
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*2 Samuel 17:9 / *2 Sam. 17:9 -
Here Hushai refers to a key point with regard to any coup d'etat: You have to be certain of killing or capturing the top leader of the regime which you are trying to overthrow. This was why, for example, the relatively recent coup d'etat in Turkey failed: It was unable to kill or capture Erdogan, despite all of its meticulous planning. If it had killed or captured Erdogan, no doubt the rest of his military would have abandoned him without any problem, just as the Turkish military in the past has repeatedly and successfully committed coups d'etat in Turkey. (Watch next for a Baathist coup d'etat in Iraq.)
(See the "War" section of Revelation 13:5 below)
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*2 Samuel 17:15-22 / *2 Sam. 17:15 -
Note this elaborate, although compromised, spy ring which King David set up to get life-or-death intelligence from Absalom's court (2 Samuel 15:32-37). Also, note the similarity of how two of David's spies were hidden from Absalom's counterintelligence agents (2 Samuel 17:18-21) with how two of Joshua's spies had been hidden (some 400 years earlier) from the king of Jericho's counterintelligence agents (Joshua 2).
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*2 Samuel 17:23 / *2 Sam. 17:23 -
Ahithophel could have hanged himself not out of mere pique, but because he knew that his better counsel (2 Samuel 17:14b) not being followed would result in David eventually returning to Jerusalem and slaying him as a horrible traitor (2 Samuel 17:1-2).
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*2 Samuel 18:14 / *2 Sam. 18:14 -
The original Hebrew word (shebet: H7626) translated as "darts" can mean something as large as a "sceptre" (Genesis 49:10), "rod" (Exodus 21:20), or "staff" (2 Samuel 23:21), or something as small as a writer's "pen" (Judges 5:14), and so what we today would still call a "dart". So Joab could have stabbed Absalom's heart with anything from, for example, three spears to three arrows. The KJV was no doubt using "dart" in its archaic sense of "a light spear" (Webster's).
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*2 Samuel 18:17 / *2 Sam. 18:17 -
This hasty and dishonorable burial could have been ordered by Joab to forever hide Absalom's mutilated body from the sight of David. For ten young men beating and stabbing at Absalom's body in 2 Samuel 18:15 could have resulted in the body's total mutilation, even after David had expressly commanded that Absalom be treated gently (2 Samuel 18:5,12). David could have forborne to order a subsequent exhumation and proper burial of his son and prince after Joab's warning in 2 Samuel 19:6b-7 made David fear for his own life at the hands of the people. David could not control Joab (2 Samuel 3:27-39), who was David's top military commander (2 Samuel 8:16), even though Joab remained loyal to David to the end.
David was not loyal to Joab, but even chose Amasa, Absalom's top military commander (2 Samuel 17:25), over Joab (2 Samuel 19:13). (Joab then simply murdered Amasa: 2 Samuel 20:10.) Also, David would eventually get his vengeance on Joab through David's son Solomon (1 Kings 2:5-6), whom Joab was not loyal to, but instead supported another son of David named Adonijah (1 Kings 1:5 to 2:34).
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*2 Samuel 21:16 / *2 Sam. 21:16 -
(Shekels)
See 1 Samuel 17:5 above...
So Ishbi-benob's spear weighing "three hundred shekels" means that it was 300 x 0.576 ounces, or 172.8 ounces; divided by 16 would be about 11 pounds, or about 5 kilos. And this could be just the spearhead, like how just Goliath's spearhead was over 20 pounds (1 Samuel 17:7), or over 9 kilos.
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*2 Samuel 22:33b / *2 Sam. 22:33b -
God makes the way of saved people perfect (2 Samuel 22:33b, Psalms 18:32) only so long as they repent from every sin that they commit and confess it to God (1 John 1:9, Hebrews 10:26-29).
(See Hebrews 10:26 below)
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*2 Samuel 23:5 / *2 Sam. 23:5 -
The original Hebrew word (tsamach: H6779) translated as "grow" can mean "spring forth".
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*1 Kings 4:22 / *1 Kin. 4:22 -
The original Hebrew word (kor: H3734) translated as "measures" referred to the same thing as the "homer".
(See Numbers 11:32 above)
The Hebrew word's Greek form (koros: G2884) is used in Luke 16:7.
So Solomon requiring each day thirty kors of flour, plus sixty kors of meal, means that he required ninety kors, or 90 x 50 gallons-dry, or 4,500 gallons-dry, of grain per day. This, of course, would reflect not the size of Solomon's own appetite, or even of his most-extended family, but means that he also had thousands of servants (including protective soldiers) to feed each day. Compare his lament in Ecclesiastes 5:11.
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*1 Kings 7:9 / *1 Kin. 7:9 -
The original Hebrew word (tephach: H2947) translated as "coping", like the English word, can refer to the top part of a wall.
Perhaps this is also the origin of what we today call "coping", in the sense of being able to handle things, get on top of them, instead of being weighed down helpless beneath them.
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*1 Kings 7:18 / *1 Kin. 7:18 -
The original Hebrew word (kothereth: H3805) translated as "chapiter", like the English word, can refer to a "capital", in the sense of the top part of an architectural column.
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*1 Kings 7:20 / *1 Kin. 7:20 -
The original Hebrew word (beten: H0990) translated as "belly" can mean the "body" of something, in this case the body (in the sense of the main part) of the capital.
The Hebrew word (sebakah: H7639) translated as "network" can refer to a "wreath" (2 Chronicles 4:12-13).
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*1 Kings 7:21 / *1 Kin. 7:21 -
"Jachin" (H3199) is made up of two words (H3050, H3559) which mean "YHWH (Ja) will establish (chin)".
"Boaz" (H1162) could mean: "In Him is strength".
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*1 Kings 7:23 / *1 Kin. 7:23 -
(Re: *Pi)
1 Kings 7:23 is not saying (as is sometimes claimed) that pi = 3.0, instead of 3.14. For all that 1 Kings 7:23 is saying is that a brass basin ten cubits in diameter had a circumference of thirty cubits, which could have simply been rounded down from a circumference of 31.4 cubits. Or, the ten-cubit diameter could have been rounded up from 9.55 cubits, which would have resulted in a circumference of thirty cubits. Or, neither the ten-cubit-diameter figure nor the thirty-cubit-circumference figure was meant to be taken as an exact figure accurate to the hundredth of a cubit. For 1 Kings 7:23 is not giving a blueprint description of the basin, nor is it giving a geometry lesson. Instead, it is simply giving a general account of how big the basin was.
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*1 Kings 7:26 / *1 Kin. 7:26 -
A "bath" (H1324) was about six gallons, or 23 liters.
So the brass basin containing "two thousand baths" means that it could hold 12,000 gallons, or about 45,000 liters.
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*1 Kings 7:28-29 / *1 Kin. 7:28 -
The original Hebrew word (micgereth: H4526) translated as "borders" could refer to "panels", in this case decorated side panels.
The Hebrew word (shalab: H7948) translated as "ledges" could refer to uprights into which a panel was fitted.
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*1 Kings 7:33 / *1 Kin. 7:33 -
The original Hebrew word (yad: H3027) translated as "axletrees", like the English word, could refer to "axles".
The Hebrew word (gab: H1354) translated as "naves" could refer to the "rims" of wheels.
The Hebrew word (chishshuq: H2839) translated as "felloes" could refer to the "spokes" of wheels.
The Hebrew word (chishshur: H2840) translated as "spokes" could refer to the "hubs" of wheels.
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*1 Kings 8:37 / *1 Kin. 8:37 -
The original Hebrew word (shedephah: H7711) translated as "blasting" could refer to "blight", in the sense of the withering of plants.
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*1 Kings 8:56 / *1 Kin. 8:56 -
See Joshua 21:43 above.
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*1 Kings 9:13 / *1 Kin. 9:13 -
"Cabul" (H3521) could mean "sterile", in the sense that the region was unproductive (with regard to wealth accumulation, such as through trade), with its people living at subsistence levels (okay for them, but not for a king wanting to gain more wealth for himself off of their labor).
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*1 Kings 9:24 / *1 Kin. 9:24 -
"Millo" (H4407) could refer to a citadel in Jerusalem.
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*1 Kings 10:1 / *1 Kin. 10:1 -
"Sheba" (H7614) could refer to a kingdom in southwest Arabia.
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*1 Kings 10:2 / *1 Kin. 10:2 -
The original Hebrew word (chayil: H2428) translated as "train", like the English word, can refer to people who accompany someone. So the queen of Sheba having "a very great train" can mean that she came with a lot of people (2 Chronicles 9:1).
Also, it should be pointed out that the Falashas claim that the queen of Sheba had sexual relations with Solomon and as a result gave birth to a son named Menelik, from whom they claim descent. They keep the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law, and in modern times were rescued from famine in Ethiopia by being airlifted to Israel.
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*1 Kings 10:11 / *1 Kin. 10:11 -
"Ophir" (H0211) could refer to a kingdom in south Arabia.
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*1 Kings 10:16 / *1 Kin. 10:16 -
The original Hebrew word (tsinnah: H6793) translated as "targets" could refer to large shields.
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(Shekels)
See 1 Samuel 17:5 above...
So each shield being made from "six hundred shekels" of gold would mean that each shield weighed 600 x 0.576 ounces, or 345.6 ounces; divided by 16 would be about 22 pounds each, or about 10 kilos each.
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*1 Kings 10:17 / *1 Kin. 10:17 -
The original Hebrew word (maneh: H4488) translated as "pound" referred to a "maneh/mina", which could refer to 100 shekels (3.6 pounds).
So each of the smaller shields being made from "three minas" could mean 300 shekels (11 pounds), or half the weight of the large shields in the prior verse (see above). This is also what the parallel verse of 2 Chronicles 9:16 shows.
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*1 Kings 10:19 / *1 Kin. 10:19 -
The original Hebrew word (yad: H3027) translated as "stays" could refer to armrests.
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*1 Kings 10:22 / *1 Kin. 10:22 -
The Hebrew words ('oniy: H0590; and Tarshiysh: H8659) translated as "navy of Tharshish" could refer to any fleet of large, merchant ships, of whatever nation.
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*1 Kings 10:24 / *1 Kin. 10:24 -
(Re: Revelation 17:18)
1 Kings 10:24, like Luke 11:31, refers only to Solomon's wisdom, not to Jerusalem actually reigning over the kings of the earth.
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*1 Kings 11:1 / *1 Kin. 11:1 -
The original Hebrew word (nokriy: H5237) translated as "strange" can mean "foreign" (Deuteronomy 15:3).
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*1 Kings 12:28 / *1 Kin. 12:28 -
("Thy gods" = Elohim)
Compare paragraphs 4-7 of Leviticus 26:1(space) above.
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*1 Kings 14:3 / *1 Kin. 14:3 -
The original Hebrew word (niqqud: H5350) translated as "cracknels", like the English word, can refer to hard biscuits.
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*1 Kings 18:32 / *1 Kin. 18:32 -
The original Hebrew word (ce'ah: H5429) translated as "measures" refers to a "seah", which could fill a 17-gallon jar.
So Elijah digging a circular trench which could hold "two seahs" would mean that it could hold 34 gallons, or about 130 liters.
(Compare John 2:6 below)
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*2 Kings 2:11 / *2 Kin. 2:11 -
The original Hebrew word (shamayim: H8064) translated as "heaven" can refer to the third heaven, where God's throne is (1 Kings 22:19; Psalms 11:4), just as the apostle Paul said that he at one point during his lifetime could have been temporarily taken bodily to the third heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2), and just as the apostle John at one point during his lifetime was temporarily taken to God's throne in the third heaven (Revelation 4:1-2).
(See 2 Corinthians 12:2 below)
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*2 Kings 3:15 / *2 Kin. 3:15 -
(Re: Revelation 13:16)
2 Kings 3:15 does not refer to a physical hand, whereas Revelation 13:16 does refer to a physical hand or forehead receiving a physical mark.
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*2 Kings 3:27 / *2 Kin. 3:27 -
(Re: *Devils / *gods)
Here the sacrifice by the king of Moab (2 Kings 3:26) could have been made to the false god Chemosh (1 Kings 11:33), who could have then unleashed his wrath against Israel. For Chemosh could be a devil (1 Corinthians 10:20), that is, a fallen-angelic being; and devils can unleash their wrath against people (Revelation 12:12b). Devils have real power (Revelation 2:10, Ephesians 6:12, Luke 13:16), just as even human "gods" (John 10:34) have real power (Romans 13:4). But (upper case) God's/Jesus' power is greater (Luke 10:17-20), just as the power of even God's unfallen angels is greater (Revelation 12:7-9, Daniel 10:13). For God (YHWH) has always been, is now, and forever will be the only God (Isaiah 45:5-6, Isaiah 43:10b).
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*2 Kings 6:25 / *2 Kin. 6:25 -
A "cab" (H6894) could refer to a scoopful, or it could refer to about two quarts. So "the fourth part of a cab" could have been about a pint, or about half a liter.
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*2 Kings 8:26 / *2 Kin. 8:26 -
(Two and twenty years old)
See 2 Chronicles 22:2 below.
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*2 Kings 9:1 / *2 Kin. 9:1 -
The original Hebrew word (pak: H6378) translated as "box" can mean "vial" (1 Samuel 10:1).
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*2 Kings 9:2 / *2 Kin. 9:2 -
The original Hebrew word (bow': H0935) translated as "carry" can mean "bring" (Genesis 42:20).
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*2 Kings 10:27 / *2 Kin. 10:27 -
The original Hebrew word (mowtsa'ah: H4163) translated as "draught house" could refer to an outhouse, or privy.
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*2 Kings 11:8 / *2 Kin. 11:8 -
(Ranges / H7713)
See 2 Chronicles 23:14 below.
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*2 Kings 12:20 / *2 Kin. 12:20 -
"Silla" (H5538) could refer to an embankment protecting Jerusalem.
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(Millo)
See 1 Kings 9:24 above.
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*2 Kings chapters 13-15 / *2 Kin. chs. 13-15 -
These chapters refer to the four successive kings of the northern kingdom of Israel who were descended from King Jehu: Jehoahaz, Joash/Jehoash, Jeroboam II, and Zachariah, who were the four-generation dynasty promised to Jehu by YHWH God in 2 Kings 10:30, and referred back to in 2 Kings 15:12. YHWH God keeps His word.
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*2 Kings 13:14b / *2 Kin. 13:14b -
Note that nothing requires that this was a vision, instead of just a statement by Joash. Also, it does not matter if the chariot which had previously taken Elijah into heaven was spiritual: It was still real, and so it was able to take Elijah physically into heaven (2 Kings 2:11). Joash's statement in 2 Kings 13:14b could mean that Joash wanted God to send a chariot to take Elisha alive into heaven in the same manner that God had sent a chariot to take Elijah alive into heaven. Elisha made the statement in 2 Kings 2:12 only after he saw the means by which Elijah was taken alive into heaven, not a means by which Elijah was to be killed. God also physically took Enoch alive into heaven, so that he would not see death (Hebrews 11:5).
(See also John 3:13 below)
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*2 Kings 15:19-20 / *2 Kin. 15:19 -
1 Chronicles 5:26 shows that in 2 Kings 15:19-20, "Pul", king of Assyria, is another name for "Tilgath-pilneser" (H8407), also transliterated as "Tiglath-pileser" (H8407) (2 Kings 15:29). He is known to historians as Tiglath-Pileser III.
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*2 Kings 16:9 / *2 Kin. 16:9 -
Note that this, like Jeremiah 49:23-27, makes no reference to all of the buildings in Damascus being destroyed. For the subsequent verse in 2 Kings 16 refers to Damascus still existing as a city, with even a still-existing altar (2 Kings 16:10). Also, 2 Kings 16:9, like Jeremiah 49:23-27, makes no reference to all of Damascus' people being killed or taken into captivity. Compare the partial captivity of Jerusalem in Jeremiah 52:16.
(See also Isaiah 17:1 below)
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