2 Kings 6:14

Overview - 2 Kings 6
Elisha, giving leave to the young prophets to enlarge their dwellings, causes iron to swim.
He discloses the king of Syria's counsel.
13 The army which was sent to Dothan to apprehend Elisha, is smitten with blindness.
19 Being brought into Samaria, they are dismissed in peace.
24 The famine in Samaria causes women to eat their own children.
30 The king sends to slay Elisha.
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2 Kings 6:14  (King James Version)
Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
 


sent he thither horses
It is strange the Syrian monarch did not think, that he who could penetrate his secrets with respect to the Israelitish army, could inform himself of all the machinations against his own life.
1:9-13 1 Samuel 23:26 ; 24:2 Matthew 26:47 Matthew 26:55 ; John 18:3-6

great
Hebrew heavy.
18:17 *marg: