Geneva Bible Notes: 2 Kings 6

2 Kings 6:2 (a) Or a piece of wood fot to buylde with

2 Kings 6:5 (/) Or, the axe head.

2 Kings 6:6 (b) God wroght this miraculously to confirme the autoritie of Elisha, to whome he had giuen suche abundance of his Spirit.

2 Kings 6:6 (!) Elisha maketh yron to swimme aboue the water.

2 Kings 6:8 (c) Meaning, that he wolde lie in ambushe & take the Israelites at vnwares.

2 Kings 6:8 (!) He discloseth the King of Syrais counsel to the King of Israel.

2 Kings 6:10 (d) The wicked conspire nothing so craftely, but God can reueile it to his seruants & cause their counsel to be disclosed.

2 Kings 6:12 (e) There is nothing so secret that thou canst go about, but he knoweth it, & discouereth it vnto his King.

2 Kings 6:13 (!) Who sending certeine to take him, were kept fast in Samaria.

2 Kings 6:14 (f) Thogh it had bene nothing in mans judgement to haue taken Elisha, yet the wicked euer doute: & thinke thei are neuer able to prepare power ynog, thogh it be but against one, or a fewe.

2 Kings 6:16 (g) For he was assured of Gods helpe, & that millions of Angels camped about the godlie to deliuer them.

2 Kings 6:17 (h) That he may beholde how thou hast prepaed an armie to rescue vs.

2 Kings 6:18 (i) Meaning, the Syrians his enemies, which came downe, thinking them selues sure of him.

2 Kings 6:19 (k) Thus he did being led by the Spirit of God & not because he soght his wone reuengance, but onely to set forthe the glorie of God.

2 Kings 6:21 (l) The wicked vse reuerent & graue wordes towardes the seruants of God, when they thinke to haue anie comoditie by them, thogh in their heart they can not abyde them.

2 Kings 6:23 (m) For this gentle intreatie & the miracle wroght by the Prophet, did more preuaile for commune quietnes, then if they had bene ouercome in battel: for they returned no more at that time to fight against Israel, or in that Kings dayes.

2 Kings 6:24 (!) Samariais besieged and endureth extreme famine.

2 Kings 6:27 (o) Meaning, anie kinde of vitale, as corne and wine, &c.

2 Kings 6:30 (/) Or, vnder bir clothes.

2 Kings 6:30 (p) Thus hypocrites, when they fele Gods judgements thinke to please him without ward ceremonies, whome in prosperitie they wil not knowe.

2 Kings 6:32 (q) Meaning, Jehoram Achaba sonne who killed the Prophetes & caused Naboth to be stoned.

2 Kings 6:33 (r) So the wicked fall into a rage & desperation, if they finde not ??? deine remedy against these afflictions.