7:2 Then a lord on whose hand the king {b} leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make {c} windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see [it] with thine eyes, but shalt not {d} eat thereof.
(b) To whom the king gave the charge and oversight of things as in 2Ki 7:17.
(c) He mocked at the prophets words saying, that if God rained down corn from heaven, yet this could not come to pass.
(d) Your infidelity will be punished in this when you see this miracle, and yet not partake of it.
7:2 Windows - Through which he could rain down corn, as once he did Manna.
7:1,2 Man's extremity is God's opportunity of making his own power to be glorious: his time to appear for his people is when their strength is gone. Unbelief is a sin by which men greatly dishonour and displease God, and deprive themselves of the favours he designed for them. Such will be the portion of those that believe not the promise of eternal life; they shall see it at a distance, but shall never taste of it. But no temporal deliverances and mercies will in the end profit sinners, unless they are led to repentance by the goodness of God.
