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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

2 Kings 2:15

They worshipped him; viz., with an inferior, yet religious veneration, not for any temporal, but spiritual excellency. (Challoner) (Worthington) --- They had stopped on a hill, (Menochius) to see the event, ver. 7. (Haydock) --- Jericho itself is two hours' journey from the Jordan. (Adrichomius) --- The sons of the prophets had seen what had happened at the translation of Elias, and perceiving that Eliseus was invested with his mantle, and with the power of working miracles, they did not hesitate to acknowledge him for their superior, during the absence of Elias, who they expected would return. (Calmet)

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See also 2 Kings 2:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 2:15. _THE SPIRIT OF ELIJAH DOTH REST ON ELISHA._] This was a natural conclusion, from seeing him with the _mantle_, and working the same miracle. This disposed them to yield the same ob...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE PROPHET ELISHA 1. The Beginning of His Ministry CHAPTER 2:12-25 _ 1. The mantle used (2 Kings 2:12)_ 2. The sons of the prophets (2 Kings 2:15) 3. The healing of Jericho's waters (2 Kin

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    2 KINGS 1:1 TO 2 KINGS 2:25. LAST DAYS AND ASCENSION OF ELIJAH: ELISHA ESTABLISHED AS HIS SUCCESSOR. Here we have perhaps a third Elijah narrative, in which the prophet is represented as playing a par...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DOTH REST. hath rested. Compare 1 Peter 4:14. Rest in "double portion" according to 2 Kings 2:9. Seen in the fact that Elijah wrought eight miracles and Elisha sixteen, and all were parables in action...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _which_were _to view at Jericho_ R.V. WHICH WERE AT JERICHO OVER AGAINST HIM. See above on verse 7. They were in a position from which they could see him, and he might see them. _bowed themselves to t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. THE COMMISSIONING OF ELISHA 2:13-15 TRANSLATION (13) And he took up the mantle of Elijah which had fallen from upon him, and returned, and stood on the bank of the Jordan. (14) And he took the man...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ELIJAH'S TRANSLATION TO HEAVEN The great service rendered to Israel by the prophet whose life is here closed was the stand which he made for the religion of Jehovah when its supremacy was threatened b...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 2 GOD TAKES ELIJAH TO HEAVEN * God had promised Elijah that Elisha would continue his work (1 Kings 19:16). In this c...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TO VIEW. — _Opposite, over against._ LXX., ἐξ ἐναντίας; Vulg., “e contra” (Deuteronomy 32:52). It is not clear whether these sons of the prophets are the fifty who “went and stood opposite afar off” ...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּרְאֻ֨הוּ בְנֵֽי ־הַ נְּבִיאִ֤ים אֲשֶׁר...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    ELISHA 2 Kings 2:1 "He did wonders in his life, and at death even his works were marvelous. For all this the people repented not." - Sir 48:14-15 AT this point we enter into the cycle of supernatur...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    ELIJAH'S SPIRIT ON ELISHA 2 Kings 2:13 We, too, may have a double portion of Elijah's spirit, but everything depends on the purity of our hearts. Only the pure in heart can see, and if we can see int...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    There is something pathetic and even weird in these final movement's of Elijah, as we see him accompanied by Elisha, and watched by the prophets. It would seem as though he tried to escape into loneli...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And when the sons of the prophets which [were] to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The (i) spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Hereby the Lord gave a decisive testimony that Elisha was by him appointed the successor of his servant Elijah, Oh! that all who minister in holy things were careful to be convinced, that they carried...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    It has been already remarked that the mission, or, at any rate, the proper ministry of Elijah closed with his own complaint against the children of Israel. God took him at his word. He pleaded against...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    And now we reach the end of the troubles and afflictions of this precious and faithful servant of God. And, if we do not find in his case the calmness of the ascension of Jesus, who, while blessing Hi...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND WHEN THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS, WHICH WERE TO VIEW AT JERICHO, SAW HIM,.... Who went out from thence towards Jordan, to have a sight if they could of the assumption of Elijah; these, when they saw...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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 hi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And bowed themselves to the ground before him_ In token of their reverence for and subjection to him, as Elijah's successor, the father of the prophets, and their master and teacher. They had been tr...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Elijah, taking his leaue of Elisha, with his mantle diuideth Iordan, 9 and granting Elisha his request, is taken vp by a fierie charet into heauen. 12 Elisha, diuiding Iordan with Elijahs mantle,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Elisha's Miraculous Powers...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And when the Sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho, those who had stood at a distance to witness the older men crossing the Jordan on dry ground, SAW HIM, returning in the same manner as...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Though in 1 Kings 19:21 we read of Elisha following Elijah and becoming his servant, yet Elisha is not mentioned as identified with Elijah when Elijah later gave messages to Ahab (1 Kings 21:17) and t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    13-18 Elijah left his mantle to Elisha; as a token of the descent of the Spirit upon him; it was more than if he had left him thousands of gold and silver. Elisha took it up, not as a sacred relic to...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Or, as it is in the Hebrew, _And the sons of the prophets who lived in Jericho saw him over against them_, from some hill where they stood at a convenient distance to observe the event, 2 KINGS 2:7. T...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 2:15 sons H1121 prophets H5030 Jericho H3405 saw H7200 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) spirit H7307 Elijah...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    The Elisha Miracles (2Ki 2 Kings 2:1; 2 Kings 4:1 to 2 Kings 6:23), His Prophetic Involvement In The Victory Over Moab (2 Kings 3:1), And Further Subsequent

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A. ELIJAH IS TAKEN AWAY BY YHWH INTO HEAVEN AND HIS SPIRIT COMES ON ELISHA WHO RE-ENTERS CANAAN (2 KINGS 2:1). In this remarkable account we have the first definite indication in Scripture that a man...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SECTION 7. ELISHA ENTERS CANAAN TO TAKE POSSESSION OF IT FOR YHWH AND MOAB'S REBELLION AGAINST ISRAEL IS PUT DOWN WITH TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES (2 KINGS 2:1 TO 2 KINGS 3:27). In our view the entry of Elish...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    2 Kings 2:15 The lessons which may be derived from the story of the departure of Elijah and the succession of Elisha are twofold, and quite distinct from each other. I. Elijah's translation is intend...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    2 Kings 2:1 The account of Elijah's translation suggests: I. That the life of man is absolutely at the disposal of the Lord. (1) God knows when our work is done. (2) We are taken from a lower to a h...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Translation of Elijah. Faith of Elisha. Theological students and their unbelief. Elisha's miracle. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Elisha, Elijah. CONCLUSION: Those who know they are soon go...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Kings 2:1. _When the Lord would take up Elijah into heaven._ The LXX read, ως εις τον ουρανον, _as into heaven._ They mean to say, that he did not ascend higher than paradise, as in John 3:13. 2 Kin...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And it came to pass when the Lord would take up Elijah._ ELIJAH TRANSLATED I. In the glorious end of Elijah’s earthly life we see not simply the reward of one faithful man, but the Divine grace mani...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _They said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha._ THE RECOGNITION OF SPIRITUAL SUPERIORITY This is clearly an instance, not of the flunkey spirit, but of justifiable deference, a commendable ack...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 2:1 Elisha and Israel. Elijah’s ministry has been coming to a close since 1 Kings 19:15, where Elijah was told to anoint Elisha as his successor.

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE TRANSLATION OF ELIJAH TO HEAVEN CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 2:1. ELIJAH WENT WITH ELISHA FROM GILGAL—Not the Gilgal in Judah, but the Gilgal (now Jilgil) in Ephraim, near Ebal and Ge...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 2:1 THE REMOVAL OF ELIJAH FROM EARTH, AND SOME EARLY MIRACLES OF ELISHA. The great prophet of Israel was to have a departure from earth as marv

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And so it came to pass, when the LORD would take Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal (2 Kings 2:1). So the time is come when Elijah is going to depart the earth...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 4:14; 2 Corinthians 12:9; 2 Kings 2:19; 2 Kings 2:7; 2 Kings

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Bowed themselves — They had been trained up in the schools: Elisha was taken from the plough. Yet, when they perceive, that God is with him, and that this is the man whom he delights to honour, they r...

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