2 Kings 7:2

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Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.

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Ephrem The Syrian

AD 373

Elisha said, “Tomorrow there will be relief from the siege and the famine in the city of Samaria.” But an officer of the house of king Jehoram mocked these words and derided the word [of the prophet]. Elisha answered him what the Scripture relates here. Some say that this man was the one whose story is reported by the biblical text above. He had sent to Elisha a messenger or a captain of the guard [of the king] to arrest him or to kill him but later had repented of his evil scheme and had run after him, preventing him from executing his command. This poor man, therefore, had seen the delivery of the town and the consequent abundance of which he had not profited, because on that same day the inhabitants of the city, who were coming out to plunder, had trampled him, and he had died. In his miserable fate he prefigures the fall of the people of Abraham, those who could see “the bread” of life “descended from heaven” to them but in large number were not worthy of enjoying that vivifying ab... Read More

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Lords. Hebrew shalish, "an officer "of the first rank, Exodus xiv. 7. Septuagint tristates, which Josephus explains of one who "commanded a third part of the army. "(Calmet) Flood-gates. If corn should fall with the same abundance as water does from the cataracts of the Nile; or, Hebrew, "if the Lord should make windows", to pour it down, (Calmet) could it possibly be so cheap? (Menochius) Thereof. Thus his incredulity was punished, ver. 17. (Salien) Reason must not pretend to reach the power of God, but ought to believe what he says. (Worthington)

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