Commentaries:Barnes' Notes
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2 Kings 5:7
He rent his clothes - The action indicated alarm and terror quite as much as sorrow II Samuel 13:19; Ezra 9:3; II Chronicles 34:27; Jeremiah 36:22.
Consider, I pray you - Jehoram speaks to his chief officers, and bids them mark the animus of the Syrian monarch. Compare the conduct of Ahab I Kings 20:7.
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