Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 8:50
And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
50. give them compassion ] So God stirred up the heart of Cyrus to permit Israel to return from Babylon (Ezr 1:1).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Compassion … – Not merely such compassion as Evil-Merodach showed toward Jehoiachin 2Ki 25:27-30; Jer 52:31-34, but such as Cyrus and Artaxerxes showed in allowing the captive Jews to return to their own land Ezr 1:3; Neh 2:6.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 50. And give them compassion before them who carried them captive] He does not pray that they may be delivered out of that captivity, but that their enemies may use them well; and that they may, as formerly, be kept a separate and distinct people.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
i.e. May gently use them whilst they are there, and proclaim liberty to their captives to go to their own land.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee,…. By returning them to their own land; by which it would appear that the Lord had forgiven their trespasses, as well as by what follows:
and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them; for it is in the power of God to work upon the affections of men, and dispose their minds to use his people well, and to pity them under their distresses, as the Chaldeans did the Jews in Babylon, Ps 106:46.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(50) Forgive . . . and give them compassion This prayer was singularly fulfilled at the captivity of Judah in Babylon, though we hear of no such thing in relation to the captivity of the lost tribes of Israel in Assyria. We see this in the exceptional favour of Nebuchadnezzar and of the Ahasuerus of the Book of Esther to the Jews in Babylon; we see it still more in the greater boon of restoration granted them by Cyrus and Darius, and the Artaxerxes of the Book of Nehemiah. Like the whole course of the fortunes of the Jews in their subsequent dispersion, these things,however they may be accounted forare certainly unique in history.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Ki 8:50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
Ver. 50. And give them compassion. ] This prayer was answered for the good of God’s poor people in Babylon, where they found much favour, and had at length leave to return; like as Jacob’s prayer Gen 43:14 was abundantly answered when Joseph fell upon Benjamin’s neck weeping, &c.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
forgive Thy People. Compare Lev 26:40, Lev 26:42.
give them. Compare Ezr 1:1, Ezr 1:3.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
and give them: 2Ch 30:9, Ezr 7:6, Ezr 7:27, Ezr 7:28, Neh 1:11, Neh 2:4-8, Psa 106:46, Pro 16:7, Dan 1:9, Dan 1:10, Act 7:10
Reciprocal: Exo 2:6 – she had compassion 2Ch 6:36 – they sin Est 2:9 – she obtained Mat 6:12 – forgive Luk 10:33 – he had
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ki 8:50-51. That they may have compassion on them Treat them mercifully while they continue their slaves, and give them liberty to return to their own land. God has the hearts of all men in his hands, and, can, when he pleaseth, turn the strongest stream the contrary way, and cause those to pity his people, who have been their most cruel persecutors. For they be thy people How much soever they may sin against thee, or suffer from men, yet still remember they are thy peculiar people, received into covenant with thee, and taken under thy care and protection. And thine inheritance From whom, more than from any other nation, thy rent and tribute of glory arises. Which thou broughtest from the furnace of iron From cruel bondage, and painful labours. For he compares Egypt to a furnace in which iron and other metals are melted, or which, being made of iron, is more hot and terrible than one of brick and stone, to signify the misery and torment which the Israelites endured there.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
8:50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may {t} have compassion on them:
(t) He understood by faith, that God of enemies would make friends with them who converted to him.