2 Kings 7:6

For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Lord	וַאדֹנָ֞י va.do.Nai	H136	the Lord (used as a proper name of God only) · conjunction + proper noun, a title
host	מַחֲנֵ֣ה ma.cha.Neh	H4264	an encampment (of travellers or troops) · noun, common feminine singular construct
Syrians	אֲרָ֗ם 'a.Ram	H758	Aram or Syria · proper noun, a place name
hear	הִשְׁמִ֣יעַ hish.Mi.a'	H8085	to hear intelligently (often with implication of attent… · verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
noise	ק֥וֹל Kol	H6963	a voice or sound · noun, common masculine singular construct
chariots	רֶ֙כֶב֙ re.khev	H7393	a vehicle · noun, common masculine singular absolute
noise	ק֣וֹל Kol	H6963	a voice or sound · noun, common masculine singular construct
horses	ס֔וּס Sus	H5483	a horse (as leaping) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
noise	ק֖וֹל Kol	H6963	a voice or sound · noun, common masculine singular construct
great	גָּד֑וֹל ga.Dol	H1419	great (in any sense) · adjective, masculine singular absolute
host	חַ֣יִל Cha.yil	H2428	probably a force · noun, common masculine singular absolute
said	וַיֹּאמְר֞וּ vai.yo.me.Ru	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
one	אִ֣ישׁ 'ish	H376	a man as an individual or a male person · noun, common masculine singular absolute
another	אָחִ֗יו 'a.Chiv	H251	a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relation… · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
king	מֶ֨לֶךְ Me.lekh	H4428	a king · noun, common masculine singular construct
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
hired	שָֽׂכַר sa.khar-	H7936	to hire · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
kings	מַלְכֵ֧י mal.Khei	H4428	a king · noun, common masculine plural construct
Hittites	הַחִתִּ֛ים ha.chi.Tim	H2850	a Chittite · definite article + noun, gentilic masculine plural absolute
kings	מַלְכֵ֥י mal.Khei	H4428	a king · noun, common masculine plural construct
Egyptians	מִצְרַ֖יִם mitz.Ra.yim	H4714	Mitsrajim · proper noun, a place name
come	לָב֥וֹא la.Vo'	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

2 Samuel 5:24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall…
Isaiah 31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they…
1 Kings 10:29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kin…
Revelation 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running…
2 Kings 3:22-27 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
2 Chronicles 12:2-3 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed…
Job 15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Psalms 14:5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 7:3-11

We are here told, I. How the siege of Samaria was raised in the evening, at the edge of night (Kg2 7:6, Kg2 7:7), not by might or power, but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts, striking terror upon the spirits of the besiegers. Here was not a sword drawn against them, not a drop of blood shed, it was not by thunder or hailstones that they were discomfited, nor were they slain, as Sennacherib's army before Jerusalem, by a destroying angel; but, 1. The Lord made them to hear a noise of chariots and horses. The Syrians that besieged Dothan had their sight imposed upon, Kg2 6:18. These had their hearing imposed upon. For God knows how to work upon every sense, pursuant to his own counsels as he…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 7:6

the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots--This illusion of the sense of hearing, whereby the besiegers imagined the tramp of two armies from opposite quarters, was a great miracle which God wrought directly for the deliverance of His people.

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 7:6

The Lord had made the - Syrians to hear a noise - This threw them into confusion; they imagined that they were about to be attacked by powerful auxiliaries, which the king of Israel had hired against them.

John Gill on 2 Kings 7:6

For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host,.... Or of many armies, as the Targum; either in the air by the ministry of angels; or the Lord so wrought upon their imagination, that they fancied they heard such noises; or he caused such noises in their ears: and they said one to another, lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites; one of the nations of the Canaanites, and may be here put for the whole of those that remained, and who lived upon the borders of the land of Israel; though Josephus (y) has it, the kings of the isles; that is, of Chittim, see Jeremiah 2:10. and the king…

Dictionary and topics

Elisha — God his salvation, the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah, who became the attendant and disciple of Elijah (1 Kings 19:16-19). His name first occurs in the command given to Elijah to anoint him as his…
Jehoram — Jehovah-exalted. (1.) Son of Toi, king of Hamath, sent by his father to congratulate David on the occasion of his victory over Hadadezer (2 Sam. 8:10). (2.) A Levite of the family of Gershom (1 Chr.…
Samaria — A watch-mountain or a watch-tower. In the heart of the mountains of Israel, a few miles north-west of Shechem, stands the “hill of Shomeron,” a solitary mountain, a great “mamelon.” It is an oblong…
Chariots · Noise occasioned by, referred to — Noise occasioned by, referred to
Hittites · Retain their own kings — Retain their own kings
Panic · From God — From God
Samaria, Ancient · Samaria the capital of: Delivered by miraculous means — Samaria the capital of: Delivered by miraculous means
Syria · Army of, miraculously routed — Army of, miraculously routed

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Kings 7:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 7:3-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 7:6

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 7:6

John Gill on 2 Kings 7:6

Dictionary and topics

2 Kings 7:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 7:3-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 7:6

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 7:6

John Gill on 2 Kings 7:6

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Kings 7:3-7

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Kings 7:5-7

Rashi on 2 Kings 7:6