2 Kgs 1:2

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a lattice.

The flat roofs of the eastern houses are generally surrounded by a parapet wall breast high; but instead of this, some terraces are guarded with balustrades only, or latticed work. Of the same kind, probably, was the lattice, or net, as the term {shevacha} seems to import, through which Ahaziah fell into the court.

This incident proves the necessity of the law for the formation of battlements for roof, (Deut 22:8,) which God graciously dictated from Sinai, which furnishes a beautiful example of his paternal care and goodness; for the terrace was a place where many offices of the family were performed, and business frequently transacted.

Judg 5:28; Song 2:9; Acts 20:9

was sick.

1Ki 22:34; *marg:

2Chr 21:14; 2Chr 21:15; Job 31:3

Baal-zebub.

2Kgs 1:3; 2Kgs 1:6; 2Kgs 1:16; Matt 10:25; Matt 12:24-27; Mark 3:22; Luke 11:15

Beelzebub. god.

Judg 11:24; 1Sam 5:10; 1Kgs 11:33; Isa 37:12; Isa 37:19

whether.

2Kgs 8:7-10; 1Kgs 14:3