Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - 2 King 1:13 - 1:13

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - 2 King 1:13 - 1:13


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The king, disregarding the punishing hand of the Lord, which, even if it might possibly have been overlooked in the calamity that befell the captain who was first sent and his company, could not be misunderstood when a similar fate befell the second captain with his fifty men, sent a third company, in his defiant obduracy, to fetch the prophet. (שְׁלִשִׁים after חָמִשִּׁים is apparently an error of the pen for שְׁלִישִׁי, as the following word הַשְּׁלִישִׁי shows). But the third captain was better than his king, and wiser than his two predecessors. He obeyed the command of the king so far as to go to the prophet; but instead of haughtily summoning him to follow him, he bent his knee before the man of God, and prayed that his own life and the lives of his soldiers might be spared.