2Ki 18:26-27, Ezr 4:7, Dan 2:4 | TSK | STEP | Speak.Perceiving that the object of this blasphemous caitiff was to stir up the people to sedition, they mildly and reasonably required him to make his proposals in the Syrian language. in the Syrian language.

2 Kings 18:26-27

Speak.Perceiving that the object of this blasphemous caitiff was to stir up the people to sedition, they mildly and reasonably required him to make his proposals in the Syrian language.

in the Syrian language.

Ezr 4:7; Isa 36:11,12; Da 2:4

eat.

6:25; De 28:53-57; Ps 73:8; La 4:5; Eze 4:13,15

their own piss. Heb. the water of their feet.

Ezra 4:7

A.M. 3482. B.C. 522. Artaxerxes.This Artaxerxes was one of the Magi, who usurped the throne after the death of Cambyses, for seven months, feigning himself to be Smerdis, brother of Cambyses: he is called Oropoestus by Justin, Smerdis by Herodotus, Mardus by AEschylus, and Sphendatates by Ctesias.

Bishlam. or, in peace. companions. Heb. societies.

9,17; 5:6

the Syrian tongue.That is, probably, both the language and character were Syrian or Chaldaic; and therefore, from the 8th verse of this chapter, to ch. 7:27, the original is not Hebrew, but Chaldee, in those parts which consist of letters, decrees, etc., originally written in that language.

2Ki 18:26; Isa 36:11; Da 2:4

Daniel 2:4

in.

Ge 31:47; Ezr 4:7; Isa 36:11

Syriack.Aramith, "Aramean," the language of Aram or Syria; a general term comprehending both the Chaldee and Syriac, the latter merely differing from the former as a dialect, and being written in a different character. With the following words the Chaldee part of Daniel commences; and is continued to the end of the seventh chapter.

O king.

3:9; 4:19; 5:10; 6:6,21; 1Sa 10:24; 1Ki 1:25,31; Ne 2:3; Mt 21:9

Mr 11:9,10

tell.

4:7; 5:8; Ge 41:8; Isa 44:25