Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Kings 2:17
Was ashamed — That is, to deny them any longer, lest they should think his denial proceeded from a neglect of his master, or a contempt of them.
Was ashamed — That is, to deny them any longer, lest they should think his denial proceeded from a neglect of his master, or a contempt of them.
Verse 2 Kings 2:17. _TILL HE WAS ASHAMED_] He saw they would not be satisfied unless they made the proposed search; he felt therefore that he could not, with any good grace, resist their importunity a...
TILL HE WAS ASHAMED - i. e. to refuse them any longer....
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
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...
_till_he _was ashamed_ i.e. to refuse longer so urgent, though as he knew resultless, a petition. There is no pronoun expressed in the original. Hence some have thought the expression meant -to a sham...
II. ELISHA AND THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS 2:16-25 With the departure of Elijah, Elisha became the _father_ of the prophetic schools. The first official acts of the new leader of the sons of the prophets...
_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....
TILL HE WAS ASHAMED] i.e. to persist in further refusal....
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...
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...
URGED HIM. — Genesis 33:11. TILL HE WAS ASHAMED. — Literally, _unto being ashamed._ The pronoun is not expressed in the Hebrew. “They pressed upon him, _‘ad bôsh,_” means “until he was embarrassed, di...
וַ יִּפְצְרוּ ־בֹ֥ו עַד ־בֹּ֖שׁ וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר
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...
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...
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...
CHAPTER II. _ Send. He acquiesces, lest they might think that he was afraid of losing his superiority. (Menochius)_...
There is somewhat mysterious in those verses. That the sons of the prophets should be so destitute of faith, and Elisha suffer himself to be led away to the permission of what is here said appears so...
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...
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...
AND WHEN THEY URGED HIM UNTIL HE WAS ASHAMED,.... To deny them any longer, being so very pressing and importunate: HE SAID, SEND; lest they should think he had not the respect for his master he shoul...
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. Ver. 17. _He said, Send._] Since you have such a mind to it;...
_Behold, there be with thy servants fifty strong men_ Able to take such a journey. _Let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master_ They had received but an imperfect revelation of God's design, with...
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,...
And when they had urged him till he was ashamed, when their stubborn persistence showed him that there was no hope of dissuading them from their purpose, HE SAID, SEND. THEY SENT THEREFORE FIFTY MEN;...
Elisha's Miraculous Powers...
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...
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...
TILL HE WAS ASHAMED, i.e. to wit, to deny them any longer, lest they should think his denial proceeded from a neglect of his master, or a contempt of the sons of the prophets, or a secret content he t...
2 Kings 2:17 urged H6484 (H8799) ashamed H954 (H8800) said H559 (H8799) Send H7971 (H8798) sent...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 2:16. LEST PERADVENTURE, &c.—They had seen Elijah pass miraculously over Jordan, but did not witness his ascension. Even if he had been taken up to heaven, th...
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
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...
2 Samuel 18:22; 2 Samuel 18:23; Hebrews 11:5; Luke 11:8; Romans 10:2