* And it came.
# 13; 1Sa 16:12,13; 24:4-7,13; 26:9-11; 1Ki 11:26-37|
* on the morrow.
# Ps 36:4; Mic 2:1|
* that he took a thick cloth.
There is a considerable degree of ambiguity in this passage.
The pronoun he is generally referred to Hazael; but Dr.
Geddes and others are decidedly of the opinion, that we should
understand by it Ben-hadad; who, encouraged by the favourable
answer of Elisha, as reported by Hazael, adopted a violent
remedy to allay the heat of his fever, and put over his face
the {keever,} or fly-net, (See Note on 1; Sa 19:13,) dipped in
water, which suddenly checked the perspiration, and occasioned
his death.
* so that he died.
# 9:24; 15:10-14,25,30; 1Ki 15:28; 16:10,18; Isa 33:1|
* Hazael.
# 13; 1Ki 19:15|
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