Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 1:2

2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattess in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick, and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal zebub the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease?

In which, the Lattess might be left to convey Light into the lower Room. Which if it now seem absurd to be in a Kings Palace, we must not think it was so then, when the World was not arrived to that height of Curiosity and Art, in which now it is. But the words may be, and are by some rendred, through the Battlements (or through the Lattess in the Battlements) of the Roof of the House. Where being first walking, after the manner, and then standing and looking through, and leaning upon this Lattess, which was grown infirm, it broke, and he fell down into the Court or Garden belonging to the House.

Properly, the god of Flies. An Idol so called, because it was falsly supposed to deliver those people from Flies, which were both vexatious and hurtful to them: as Iupiter and Hercules were called by a like Name among the Grecians, for the same reason. And it is evident, both from Sacred and Prophane Histories, That the Idol-gods, being consulted by the Heathens, did sometimes through God's Permission, and Just Judgment, give them Answers; though they were generally observed, even by the Heathens themselves, to be dark and doubtful.

Marginal references: Heb. live. So [illegible: 1 word]