Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The water is naught - i. e. "bad."
And the ground barren - Translate "and the land apt to miscarry." The stream was thought to be the cause of untimely births, abortions, and the like, among the cattle, perhaps also among the people, that drank of it.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 2:19:
Proverbs 20:14
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