2 Kings 2:17

tillhe 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 shameful extent" and was to be applied to the undue persistence of the petitioners. But the same phrase occurs in Judges 3:25 of Eglon's servants who waited till they were ashamed to wait longer. Here it implies that Elisha was at a loss how to refuse them any longer. His narrative was unprecedented in its character, and if they refused to be persuaded by that, he had no more that he could do.