Lièwángjìxià 2:19

19 Yēlìgē chéng de rén duì Yǐlìshā shuō , zhè chéng de dì shì mĕihǎo , wǒ zhǔ kànjian le . zhǐshì shuǐ è liè , tǔchǎn bù shóu ér luō .

Lièwángjìxià 2:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 2:19

And the men of the city said unto Elisha
The inhabitants of Jericho, perceiving him to be a prophet, and endowed with a power of working miracles:

behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord
seeth;
in a plain, surrounded with gardens and orchards, with vineyards, oliveyards, and groves of palm trees, and other odoriferous ones:

but the water is naught, and the ground barren;
that is, that part of it where this water was, or ran, for from thence it became barren; or "caused to miscarry", as the word signifies ^F17; not only trees cast their fruit, which it watered, but women became abortive that drank of it, as Josephus says ^F18, and so cattle. Abarbinel thinks it was so from the times of Joshua, being cursed by him; but, if so, it would not have been inhabited again; rather this was owing to a new curse, upon its being rebuilt; though this might affect only a small part of the ground, not the whole, as before observed.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (tlkvm) "orbans", Montanus, Vatablus; "facit abortum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
F18 De Bello Jud. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 3.

Lièwángjìxià 2:19 In-Context

17 Tāmen zaì sān cuīcù tā , tā nányǐ tuīcí , jiù shuō , nǐmen dǎfa rén qù bā . tāmen biàn dǎfa wǔ shí rén qù , xúnzhǎo le sān tiān , yĕ méiyǒu zhǎo zhe .

18 Yǐlìshā réngrán zaì Yēlìgē dĕnghòu tāmen huí dào Tānàli . tā duì tāmen shuō , wǒ qǐ méiyǒu gàosu nǐmen bù bì qù ma .

19 Yēlìgē chéng de rén duì Yǐlìshā shuō , zhè chéng de dì shì mĕihǎo , wǒ zhǔ kànjian le . zhǐshì shuǐ è liè , tǔchǎn bù shóu ér luō .

20 Yǐlìshā shuō , nǐmen ná yī gè xīn píng lái , zhuāng yán gĕi wǒ . tāmen jiù ná lái gĕi tā .

21 Tā chū dào shuǐ yuán , jiāng yán dǎo zaì shuǐ zhōng , shuō , Yēhéhuá rúcǐ shuō , wǒ zhì hǎo le zhè shuǐ , cóngcǐ bì bú zaì shǐ rén sǐ , yĕ bú zaì shǐ dì tǔ bù shēngchǎn .