John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 2. Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master’s sons are with you , etc.] Sons of Ahab, and some of Joram, and all either the sons or grandsons of Ahab: and there are with you chariots and horses ; military ones: a fenced city also : as Samaria was, well walled and fortified, and able to hold out a long siege: and armour ; of all sorts, to arm themselves and people with in their defence.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-14 - In the most awful events, though attended by the basest crimes of man the truth and justice of God are to be noticed; and he never did no can command any thing unjust or unreasonable. Jehu destroyed all tha remained of the house of Ahab; all who had been partners in his wickedness. When we think upon the sufferings and miseries of mankind when we look forward to the resurrection and last judgment, and thin upon the vast number of the wicked waiting their awful sentence of everlasting fire; when the whole sum of death and misery has bee considered, the solemn question occurs, Who slew all these? The answe is, SIN. Shall we then harbour sin in our bosoms, and seek for happiness from that which is the cause of all misery?
Original Hebrew ועתה6258 כבא935 הספר5612 הזה2088 אליכם413 ואתכם854 בני1121 אדניכם113 ואתכם854 הרכב7393 והסוסים5483 ועיר5892 מבצר4013 והנשׁק׃5402
