Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 1:3

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 1:3 - 1:3

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 1:3 - 1:3

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the angel of the Lord - not an angel, but the angel, who carried on all communications between the invisible God and His chosen people [Hengstenberg]. This angel commissioned Elijah to meet the king’s messengers, to stop them peremptorily on the idolatrous errand, and convey by them to the king information of his approaching death. This consultation of an idol, being a breach of the fundamental law of the kingdom (Exo 20:3; Deu 5:7), was a daring and deliberate rejection of the national religion. The Lord, in making this announcement of his death, designed that he should see in that event a judgment for his idolatry.