2Ki 10:6-9 | TSK | e4.org | If ye be mine Heb. If ye be for me, ; ; take ye your master's sons ; ; ; ; which brought them up "The rich," says Mr. Morier, "hire a dedeh , or wet nurse for their children. If a boy, the father appoints a steady man from the age of two years to be his laleh , who, I conjecture, must stand in the same capacity as the bringers up of children mentioned in the catastrophe of Ahab's sons. But if it be a daughter, she has a gees sefeed , or white head, attached to her for the same purpose as the laleh ."

‏ 2 Kings 10:6-9

If ye be mine Heb. If ye be for me, 2Kgs 9:32; Matt 12:30; Luke 9:50

your master's sons Deut 5:9; Josh 7:24-25; Job 21:19; Isa 14:21-22; Rev 2:20-23

which brought them up "The rich," says Mr. Morier, "hire a dedeh, or wet nurse for their children. If a boy, the father appoints a steady man from the age of two years to be his laleh, who, I conjecture, must stand in the same capacity as the bringers up of children mentioned in the catastrophe of Ahab's sons. But if it be a daughter, she has a gees sefeed, or white head, attached to her for the same purpose as the laleh."

slew seventy 2Kgs 10:9, 2Kgs 11:1; Judg 9:5-57; 1Kgs 21:21; 2Chr 21:4; Matt 14:8-11

there came 2Sam 11:18-21; 1Kgs 21:14; Mark 6:28

Lay ye them Such barbarities are by no means uncommon in the East. "It has been know to occur," says Mr. Morier, "after the combat was over, that prisoners have been put to death in cold blood, in order that the heads, which are immediately despatched to the king, and deposited in heaps at the place gates, might make a more considerable show."

until the morning Deut 21:23

Ye be righteous 1Sam 12:3; Isa 5:3

I conspired 2Kgs 9:14-24; Hos 1:4