John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 7:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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, etc.] 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 f97 has it, the kings of the isles; that is, of Chittim, (see <240210>Jeremiah 2:10) and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us; Egypt being now divided into petty kingdoms; or else the governors of the several nomes or districts of it are here meant: for the king of Israel to hire these kings was very unlikely in his present circumstances; but those unreasonable things, in their panic, their imaginations suggested to them.

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