A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: 2 Kings
Overview
Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures has served as a standard reference for more than a century. The subtitle “Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical” aptly describes the three-pronged approach to the biblical text. This translated version of the German text is often considered by many to be superior to the original.
Top Highlights
“‘It is significant that he who had helped to gain the victory over Israel, is represented as a leper, who must seek help in Israel, and who finds it there’ (Thenius).” (Page 53)
“It often happens that the Lord takes from us some possession, or appears to do so, only with the purpose of returning it after a longer or shorter time in some unexpected way, that it may thus come to us as a gift of divine love, and a pledge of His grace.” (Page 65)
“The sacrifice was offered upon the wall, in order that the besiegers might see it, and fear the divinity, who might now be supposed to be appeased.” (Page 33)
“According to Josephus and the rabbis, the woman was the widow of Obadiah (1 Kings 18:3 sq.), who, they think, had exhausted his fortune in the provision for persecuted prophets, and so had fallen into debt. This singular legend rests upon no foundation other than the fact that the woman says that her husband ‘feared the Lord.’ which is also stated in respect to Obadiah. By these words she does not mean to say that the fear of the Lord had in any way been the cause of his falling into poverty, but that he had not contracted debts through folly. What the creditor demanded in this case, he was justified in demanding according to the Law, cf. Levit. 25:39; Matt. 18:26 (Michaelis, Mos. Recht, iii. 148).” (Page 41)
“The locking of the door had no other object than to keep aloof every interruption from without. The action in question was not an ordinary, simply external, operation, but an act which was to be performed by the command of the Man of God, and with the heart directed towards God, that is, in faith, so that it was to be completed, not in the noise and distraction of every-day life, but in quietness and solitude.” (Page 41)
- Title: A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: 2 Kings
- Authors: Johann Peter Lange, Philip Schaff, Karl Chr. W. F. Bähr, Edwin Harwood, B. A. Sumner
- Series: Lange’s Commentary
- Publisher: Faithlife
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2008
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. 2 Kings › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:LANGE12KI2
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T17:03:01Z