Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 13:7

7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz, but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen: for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing .

i. e. The King of Syria, ver. 4. with which this Verse is to be joyned; ver. 5. and 6 being put within a Parenthesis, as it is in our Translation. But this Verse may be Translated otherwise, Although he (either the King of Syria, v. 4. or the Lord, ver. 5. to whom Judgments are oft ascribed, even when wicked men are the instruments of executing it) had not left, &c. And so it may be joyned with the next foregoing Verse, as a great aggravation of their impenitency, and obstinate continuance in their Idolatry, notwithstanding such terrible Judgments, which in all reason should have driven them from it.

i. e. Of his Army, or Men of War, as the following words evince.

i. e. Had broken and ground them to dust, or powder, as the Corn is many times broken by threshing.

Marginal references: Amos 1. 3.