2 Kings 1:3 — text, Greek, lexicon

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Mais l'ange de l'Eternel dit à Elie, le Thischbite: Lève-toi, monte à la rencontre des messagers du roi de Samarie, et dis-leur: Est-ce parce qu'il n'y a point de Dieu en Israël que vous allez consulter Baal-Zebub, dieu d'Ekron?

KJV

But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?

Pericope

2 Kings 1:1–88 verses

Patristic reading

Thomas Aquinas
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
ub. Jerome: Beelzebub is the idol of Accaron who is called in the book of Kings, the God of flies; [ 2 Ki 1:3 ] ‘Bel,’ signifying, “idol;” ‘zebub,’ a “fly”. The Prince of the daemons He calls by the name of the foulest of idols, which is so called because of the uncleanness of th…
Thomas Aquinas
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
28:1 32:8 33:3 33:9 Joshua 1:5 14 15 19:15 Judges 1:6 1 Samuel 14 21 28:19 28:19 1 Kings 17:1 18:10 2 Kings 1:3 13:21 23 23:2 23:10 24:6 1 Chronicles 3:17 2 Chronicles 24:21 Job 24:19 Psalms 1:1 1:4 2:8 3 4:4 7:4 8 8 8:2 8:6 9:19 10 11:5 12 12:6 13:5 16:11 18:1 18:43 18:43 18:44…
Sulpitius Severus + Vincent of Lerins + John Cassian
NPNF-211. Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
gs 3:24-27 4:29 4:29 7:13 8:17-19 8:58 11:2 13:22 13:26 20 20:31-32 20:42 21:21-24 22:22 22:22 22:22 2 Kings 1:1-8 4:29 6:30 9:1 9:3 20 20:1-6 2 Chronicles 3:5 6:30 7:9 24:17-18 24:23-25 26:15-16 32:24-26 Nehemiah 8:18 Esther 6:1 Job 1:9-10 1:9-11 1:21 2:6 2:10 3:23 5:2 5:7 5:18…

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