18<\/strong>. the palace<\/em> [R.V. castle<\/strong> ] of the king’s house<\/em> ] The word is most frequently rendered ‘palace’ in A.V.; but here and in 2Ki 15:25<\/span>, the sense required is some strong and well barricaded part of the royal residence, where any one might retire and the enemy be unable to reach him. The root of the noun is probably a verb implying ‘height.’<\/p>\n The palace of the kings house – <\/B>The tower of the kings house. A particular part of the palace – either the harem, or, more probably, the keep or citadel, a tower stronger and loftier than the rest of the palace.<\/P> Zimris desperate act has been repeated more than once. That the last king of Assyria, the Sardanapalus of the Greeks, thus destroyed himself, is almost the only fact which we know concerning him.<\/P> <\/p>\n Burnt the kings house over him; <\/B>or, and he burnt<\/I>, &c. Either, <\/P> 1. Omri burnt it over Zimri; for pronouns sometimes respect more remote nouns. Or rather, <\/P> 2. Zimri, (to whom both the foregoing and following words apparently belong,) who burnt it upon himself, that neither himself nor the royal palace and treasures might come into the hands of his insulting adversary. <\/P> <\/p>\n And it came to pass, that when Zimri saw that the city was taken<\/strong>,…. That Omri, and the army with him, had got into it, being a place not much fortified, and Zimri not having force enough to defend it against such an army:<\/p>\n that he went into the palace of the king’s house<\/strong>; into the innermost and most splendid, as well as the strongest part of it:<\/p>\n and burnt the king’s house over him with fire, and he died<\/strong>; that he might not fall into the hands of his rival, who he might fear would use him ill, and that he might not enjoy the royal palace; though Kimchi thinks that Omri set fire to the palace, and burnt it over the head of Zimri, in which he perished; and this sense the text will bear.<\/p>\n (18) The palace of the kings house.<\/strong>The same phrase is found in 2Ki. 15:25<\/span>. The word here rendered palace evidently means (as is clear from its derivation) the high place, or citadel, of the building. Some render it the harem, with which the curious rendering () of the LXX.signifying properly a cave or lurking-placemay perhaps, agree. But this is not suggested by the word itself. This desperate act of Zimri, which has many parallels in Eastern history, seems to indicate that there was held to be something especially treasonable, and therefore unpardonable, in his assassination of Elah. (See 1Ki. 16:20<\/span>, and 2Ki. 9:31<\/span>.)<\/p>\n 18<\/strong>. <\/strong> Palace of the king’s house <\/strong> Rather, as Gesenius explains it, “Fortress of the king’s house; <\/em> the innermost part, as the highest and strongest the citadel. <\/em> J.D. Michaelis, and after him most modern interpreters, here translate it the women’s apartment; <\/em> but there is no trace of this in the ancient interpreters, nor is there any reason for departing from the simple explanation given above.” <\/p>\n Burnt the king’s house over him with fire <\/strong> As Saracus, or Sardanapalus, is said to have done, when besieged in a similar way at Nineveh.<\/p>\n 1Ki 16:18<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>And burned the king’s house over him with fire<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> Some interpreters would rather have it, that Omri set the royal palace on fire, in order to burn Zimri in it, who had retired thither. The Hebrew may, indeed, bear that construction, but the other seems the most likely interpretation; nor has prophane history neglected to preserve the memory of some princes who have chosen to die in this manner, rather than fall by the sword; whereof Sardanapalus is one of the most ancient and most notorious examples. Calmet. <\/p>\n 1Ki 16:18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king’s house, and burnt the king’s house over him with fire, and died,<\/p>\n Ver. 18. The city was taken.<\/strong> ] And so himself like to be unkinged. Of the Ruteni it is storied, that many times they have each day a new king, or more, as any of them are of power to make themselves so. This must needs be regnum Cuclopicum.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n And burnt the king’s house over him.] The like did Sardanapalus, the last king of Assyria, not willing to fall into the hands of Arbacus his own general, by whom he was besieged at Nineveh. a<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Diodor. Justin. Strabo.<\/p>\n and burnt the king’s house: Jdg 9:54, 1Sa 31:4, 1Sa 31:5, 2Sa 17:23, Job 2:9, Job 2:10, Mat 27:5 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 2Ki 8:15 – so that he died 1Ch 2:6 – Zimri 1Ch 10:4 – Saul took Hos 7:7 – devoured Act 16:27 – he drew<\/p>\n 1Ki 16:18. When Zimri saw that the city was taken Tirzah, though a beautiful city, it seems, was not fortified; so that Omri soon made himself master of it, and forced Zimri into the palace; which, as he was unable to defend, and yet unwilling to surrender it, he burned, and himself in it: grudging that his rival should ever enjoy so sumptuous a palace, and fearing that if he fell into the hands of his enemies, either alive or dead, he should be ignominiously treated. See to what desperate practices mens wickedness sometimes brings them, and how it hurries them to their own ruin! See the disposition of incendiaries, who set palaces and kingdoms on fire, though they are themselves in danger of perishing in the flame!<\/p>\n And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king’s house, and burnt the king’s house over him with fire, and died, 18. the palace [R.V. castle ] of the king’s house ] The word is most frequently rendered ‘palace’ in A.V.; but … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 16:18”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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