2 Kgs 5:18

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and he leaneth.

This verse should probably, as many learned men have supposed, be read in the past, and not in the future tense:

"In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant, that when my master went into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaned on my hand, and I worshipped in the house of Rimmon; in that I have worshipped in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon thy servant in this thing."

Rimmon is supposed by Selden to the same with Elion, a god of the Phoenicians, borrowed undoubtedly from the Elyon of the Hebrews, one of the names of God.

2Kgs 7:2; 2Kgs 7:17

and I bow.

2Kgs 17:35; Exod 20:5; 1Kgs 19:18

the Lord pardon.

2Chr 30:18; 2Chr 30:19; Jer 50:20