_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE LORD WOULD TAKE UP ELIJAH INTO HEAVEN BY A WHIRLWIND, THAT ELIJAH WENT WITH ELISHA FROM GILGAL._ When the Lord would take up Elijah. A revelation of this event; had been made to the prophet; but, unknown to him, it had also been revealed to his disciples, and to Elish... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ELIJAH SAID UNTO ELISHA, TARRY HERE, I PRAY THEE; FOR THE LORD HATH SENT ME TO BETHEL. AND ELISHA SAID UNTO HIM, AS THE LORD LIVETH, AND AS THY SOUL LIVETH, I WILL NOT LEAVE THEE. SO THEY WENT DOWN TO BETHEL._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS THAT WERE AT BETHEL CAME FORTH TO ELISHA, AND SAID UNTO HIM, KNOWEST THOU THAT THE LORD WILL TAKE AWAY THY MASTER FROM THY HEAD TO DAY? AND HE SAID, YEA, I KNOW IT; HOLD YE YOUR PEACE._ TAKE AWAY THY MASTER FROM THY HEAD - an allusion to the custom of scholars sitting a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ELIJAH SAID UNTO HIM, ELISHA, TARRY HERE, I PRAY THEE; FOR THE LORD HATH SENT ME TO JERICHO. AND HE SAID, AS THE LORD LIVETH, AND AS THY SOUL LIVETH, I WILL NOT LEAVE THEE. SO THEY CAME TO JERICHO._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND FIFTY MEN OF THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS WENT, AND STOOD TO VIEW AFAR OFF: AND THEY TWO STOOD BY JORDAN._ They two stood by Jordan, х_ `AL_ (H5921) _ HA-YARDEEN_ (H3383), upon the Jordan; so Septuagint, epi tou Iordanou.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ELIJAH TOOK HIS MANTLE, AND WRAPPED IT TOGETHER, AND SMOTE THE WATERS, AND THEY WERE DIVIDED HITHER AND THITHER, SO THAT THEY TWO WENT OVER ON DRY GROUND._ Elijah took his mantle, х_ 'ADARTOW_ (H155)]. This word generally denotes a large and sumptuous cloak (Joshua 7:21; Jonah 3:6); but here,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THEY WERE GONE OVER, THAT ELIJAH SAID UNTO ELISHA, ASK WHAT I SHALL DO FOR THEE, BEFORE I BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THEE. AND ELISHA SAID, I PRAY THEE, LET A DOUBLE PORTION OF THY SPIRIT BE UPON ME._ Elijah ... Ask what I shall do for thee - trusting either that it would be in h... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, THOU HAST ASKED A HARD THING: NEVERTHELESS, IF THOU SEE ME WHEN I AM TAKEN FROM THEE, IT SHALL BE SO UNTO THEE; BUT IF NOT, IT SHALL NOT BE SO._ Thou hast asked a hard thing - an extraordinary blessing, which I cannot, and God only can, give. Nevertheless Elijah, doubtless by the secr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THEY STILL WENT ON, AND TALKED, THAT, BEHOLD, THERE APPEARED A CHARIOT OF FIRE, AND HORSES OF FIRE, AND PARTED THEM BOTH ASUNDER; AND ELIJAH WENT UP BY A WHIRLWIND INTO HEAVEN._ As they still went on, and talked. Surely that conference was needful, and upon matters of high... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ELISHA SAW IT, AND HE CRIED, MY FATHER, MY FATHER, THE CHARIOT OF ISRAEL, AND THE HORSEMEN THEREOF. AND HE SAW HIM NO MORE: AND HE TOOK HOLD OF HIS OWN CLOTHES, AND RENT THEM IN TWO PIECES._ Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father - i:e., spiritual father, as the pupils of the prophets are call... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE TOOK UP ALSO THE MANTLE OF ELIJAH THAT FELL FROM HIM, AND WENT BACK, AND STOOD BY THE BANK OF JORDAN;_ He took up also the mantle of Elijah. The transference of this prophetic cloak was, to himself, a pledge of his being appointed successor, and it was an outward token to others of the spirit o... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE TOOK THE MANTLE OF ELIJAH THAT FELL FROM HIM, AND SMOTE THE WATERS, AND SAID, WHERE IS THE LORD GOD OF ELIJAH? AND WHEN HE ALSO HAD SMITTEN THE WATERS, THEY PARTED HITHER AND THITHER: AND ELISHA WENT OVER._ Smote the waters. The waving of the mantle on the river, and the miraculous division... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS WHICH WERE TO VIEW AT JERICHO SAW HIM, THEY SAID, THE SPIRIT OF ELIJAH DOTH REST ON ELISHA. AND THEY CAME TO MEET HIM, AND BOWED THEMSELVES TO THE GROUND BEFORE HIM._ When the sons of the prophets which were to view, х_ MINEGED_ (H5048)] - from over against; i:e.,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD NOW, THERE BE WITH THY SERVANTS FIFTY STRONG MEN; LET THEM GO, WE PRAY THEE, AND SEEK THY MASTER: LEST PERADVENTURE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD HATH TAKEN HIM UP, AND CAST HIM UPON SOME MOUNTAIN, OR INTO SOME VALLEY. AND HE SAID, YE SHALL NOT SEND._ FIFTY STRONG MEN; LET T... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THEY URGED HIM TILL HE WAS ASHAMED, HE SAID, SEND. THEY SENT THEREFORE FIFTY MEN; AND THEY SOUGHT THREE DAYS, BUT FOUND HIM NOT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MEN OF THE CITY SAID UNTO ELISHA, BEHOLD, I PRAY THEE, THE SITUATION OF THIS CITY IS PLEASANT, AS MY LORD SEETH: BUT THE WATER IS NAUGHT, AND THE GROUND BARREN._ The situation of this city is pleasant ... but the water is naught, and the ground barren. There is near some tumuli, marking th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, BRING ME A NEW CRUSE, AND PUT SALT THEREIN. AND THEY BROUGHT IT TO HIM._ Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. The noxious qualities of the water could not be corrected by the infusion of salt; because, supposing the salt was possessed of such a property, a whole spring could no... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE WENT FORTH UNTO THE SPRING OF THE WATERS, AND CAST THE SALT IN THERE, AND SAID, THUS SAITH THE LORD, I HAVE HEALED THESE WATERS; THERE SHALL NOT BE FROM THENCE ANY MORE DEATH OR BARREN LAND._ Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters. There can be no reason to doubt that this is the s... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THE WATERS WERE HEALED UNTO THIS DAY, ACCORDING TO THE SAYING OF ELISHA WHICH HE SPAKE._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE WENT UP FROM THENCE UNTO BETHEL: AND AS HE WAS GOING UP BY THE WAY, THERE CAME FORTH LITTLE CHILDREN OUT OF THE CITY, AND MOCKED HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, GO UP, THOU BALD HEAD; GO UP, THOU BALD HEAD._ There came forth little children, х_ Nª`AARIYM_ (H5288), young lads; applied to Isaac, Jose... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE TURNED BACK, AND LOOKED ON THEM, AND CURSED THEM IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. AND THERE CAME FORTH TWO SHE BEARS OUT OF THE WOOD, AND TARE FORTY AND TWO CHILDREN OF THEM._ He ... cursed them in the name of the Lord. Not in a fit of irritation, or from an impulse of vindictive resentment, but as... [ Continue Reading ]