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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 11:14 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ki 11:14 |
Strong Concordance |
And when she looked [07200], behold, the king [04428] stood [05975] by a pillar [05982], as the manner [04941] was, and the princes [08269] and the trumpeters [02689] by the king [04428], and all the people [05971] of the land [0776] rejoiced [08056], and blew [08628] with trumpets [02689]: and Athaliah [06271] rent [07167] her clothes [0899], and cried [07121], Treason [07195], Treason [07195]. |
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King James |
And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| the king stood by a pillar--or on a platform, erected for that purpose (see on Ch2 6:13). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| By a pillar - Rather, "upon the pillar" probably a sort of stand, or pulpit, raised on a pillar. Under the later monarchy the Jewish king seems to have had a special place assigned him in the temple-court, from which on occasions he addressed the people (marginal references). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The king stood by a pillar - Stood On a pillar or tribunal; the place or throne on which they were accustomed to put the kings when they proclaimed them.
Treason, Treason - קשר קשר kesher, kasher; A conspiracy, A conspiracy! from kashar, to bind, unite together. |
13 For Solomon [08010] had made [06213] a brasen [05178] scaffold [03595], of five [02568] cubits [0520] long [0753], and five [02568] cubits [0520] broad [07341], and three [07969] cubits [0520] high [06967], and had set [05414] it in the midst [08432] of the court [05835]: and upon it he stood [05975], and kneeled down [01288] upon his knees [01290] before all the congregation [06951] of Israel [03478], and spread forth [06566] his hands [03709] toward heaven [08064],