King James Version
2 Kings 1:15 in the King James Version says “And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him...” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.”
2 Kings 1:15 · KJV
And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight. fell: Heb. bowed
Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.
And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“said”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“And the angel”
H4397a messenger; specifically, of god, i.e., an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher)
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“unto Elijah”
H452elijah, the name of the famous prophet and of two other israelites
“Go down”
H3381to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); cau
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
“of him”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“And he arose”
H6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
“Go down”
H3381to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); cau
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc
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