John Gill's Exposition on 1 Kings 22:53

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For he served Baal, and worshipped him, etc.] That is, Ahaziah served him, as his father had done, and his mother still did: and provoked to anger the Lord God of Israel, according to all that his father had done; of which there is an instance in the first chapter of the following book; for falling through a lattice, and becoming sick upon it, he quickly died, having sent messengers to inquire of the god of Ekron whether he should die or not. FOOTNOTES ft1 -- T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 15. 1. ft2 -- Tractat. Theolog. Politic. c. 8. & 9. p. 150, etc. ft3 -- Tractatus de Primis 12. Vet. Test. Lib. etc. Londini 1763. ft4 -- Vid. Poli Synopsin in loc. ft5 -- Antiqu. l. 7. c. 14. sect. 4. ft6 -- ytalm “complebo”, Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus; “explebo”, Ar. ft7 -- µyajh “peccatores”, V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, etc. ft8 -- Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 6. fol. 186. 3. ft9 -- Vid. Bartenoram in Misn. Celaim, c. 8. sect. 1. ft10 -- Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. 5. ft11 -- T. Bab. Horayot, fol. 12. 1. ft12 -- T. Bab. Ceritot, fol. 5. 2. ft13 -- T. Bab. Ceritot, fol. 5. 2. ft14 -- Ibid. ft15 -- µyarq “invitati”, V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, etc. ft16 -- lyj çya “vir virtutis”, Montanus, Vatablus. ft17 -- lba “nequaquam”, V. L. Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. ft18 -- Alexander ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 3. c. 20. ft19 -- Vit. Pausan l. 4. c. 4. ft20 -- Bereshit Rabba, sect. 96. fol. 83. 3. ft21 -- “------ omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via lethi”. Horat. Carmin. l. 1. ode 28. ver. 15, 16. ft22 -- lykçt ˆ[ml “ut prudenter agas”, Montanus, Tigurine version; “ut intelligas universa”, V. L. ft23 -- T. Hieros. Chagigah, fol. 78. 1. ft24 -- Anuals, etc. p. 56. ft25 -- Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 30. ft26 -- ynp ta ybyçt “ne avertere facias faciem meam”, Pagninus. ft27 -- Suetonius in Vit. Neron. c. 13. ft28 -- Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. 2. ft29 -- Maimon. Hilchot Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. 1. ft30 -- Elaeochrism. Myrothec. l. 3. c. 50. col. 1069. ft31 -- Bunting’s Travels, etc. p. 98. ft32 -- Antiqu. l. 7. c. 11. sect. 7. ft33 -- Antiqu. l. 8. c. 1. sect. 4. ft34 -- Bunting’s Travels, etc. p. 124. ft35 -- Bibliothec. l. 1. p. 42. ft36 -- Apud. Euseb. Praeparet. Evangel. l. 9. c. 30, 31, 32. ft37 -- Chronolog. p. 191, 192. ft38 -- T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 56. 2. & Sanhedrin, fol. 21. 2. ft39 -- Seder Olam Rabba, c. 15. p. 41. ft40 -- Apud Euseb. ut supra. (Praeparat. Evangel. l. 9. c. 30, 31, 32.) ft41 -- Epist. ad Magnesios, p. 141. Ed. Voss. ft42 -- Epist. Rufino & Vitali, fol. 24, 25. tom. 3. ft43 -- yb “in me”, Montanus; so Abarbinel. ft44 -- Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 30. ft45 -- Antiqu. l. 13. c. 15. sect. 5. ft46 -- Vid. Joseph. de Bello Jud. l. 2. c. 10. sect. 2. ft47 -- T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 12. 1. ft48 -- Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 3. p. 86. ft49 -- Vid. Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. p. 516. ft50 -- Vid. Witsii Miscellan. tom. 2. exercit. 10. sect. 26. ft51 -- Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 8. 2. ft52 -- So David de Pomis, Tzemach David, fol. 12. 3. and some in Kimchi in loc. ft53 -- Baal Aruch & R. Elias Levit. Tishbi, in voce rbrb. ft54 -- Scholia in Aristoph. Aves, p. 550. ft55 -- Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 24. ft56 -- Geograph. l. 5. c. 19. ft57 -- Geograph. l. 16. p. 514. ft58 -- Itinerar. p. 43. ft59 -- Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 9. col. 158, 159. Vid. Homer. Iliad. 4. ver. 196. and Iliad. 8. ver. 560. ft60 -- Sotah, c. 2. sect. 1. ft61 -- Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 10. 2. ft62 -- Vid. Valtrinum de re Militar. Roman. l. 3. c. 15. p…

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