Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
bring me a minstrel—The effect of music in soothing the mind is much regarded in the East; and it appears that the ancient prophets, before entering their work, commonly resorted to it, as a preparative, by praise and prayer, to their receiving the prophetic afflatus.
the hand of the Lord—a phrase significantly implying that the gift of prophecy was not a natural or inherent gift, but conferred by the power and grace of God.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Kings 3:15:
1 Chronicles 25:2
Luke 1:66
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