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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

2 Kings 3:13

Jehoram’s humility in seeking 2 Kings 3:12 instead of summoning Elisha, does not save him from rebuke. His reformation 2 Kings 3:2 had been but a half reformation - a compromise with idolatry.

Nay: for the Lord hath called ... - The force of this reply seems to be - “Nay, reproach me not, since I am in a sore strait - and not only I, but these two other kings also. The Lord - Yahweh - is about to deliver us into the hand of Moab. If thou canst not, or wilt not help, at least do not reproach.”

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See also 2 Kings 3:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 3:13. _GET THEE TO THE PROPHETS OF THY FATHER_] This was a just, but cutting reproof. _NAY_] The Chaldee adds here, _I beseech thee, do not call the sins_ _of this impiety to remembran...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. JEHORAM, MOAB, AND ELISHA CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Jehoram, King of Israel (2 Kings 3:1)_ 2. Moab's rebellion (2 Kings 3:4) 3. Elisha's message and prediction (2 Kings 3:10) 4. The defeat of Moab ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    REIGN OF JEHORAM. WAR WITH MOAB. The only two kings of Israel on whom the censure pronounced is in any way qualified are Jehoram, the last of the house of Omri, and Hoshea (2 Kings 17:2), the last kin...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WHAT... ? See note on 2 Samuel 16:10. Figure of speech _Erotesis_. App-6. NAY. Say not so....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _What have I to do with thee?_ An expression equivalent to a command to be gone. Cf. Mark 5:7; Luke 8:28; John 2:4. _the prophets of thy father_ It would be no easy task, however willing Jehoram might...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. THE JOINT CAMPAIGN AGAINST MOAB 3:4-27 The one major effort of Jehoram's twelve-year reign was his effort to resubjugate Moab. In this effort Jehoram was able to enlist the services of Jehoshaphat...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND ELISHA SAID UNTO THE KING OF ISRAEL, WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH THEE? GET THEE TO THE PROPHETS OF THY FATHER, AND TO THE PROPHETS OF THY MOTHER. AND THE KING OF ISRAEL SAID UNTO HIM, NAY: FOR THE LOR...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEHORAM AND ELISHA. VICTORY OVER MOAB 1. THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF JEHOSHAPHAT] according to 2 Kings 1:17, 'in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 3 THE WAR AGAINST MOAB V1 Ahab’s son Joram became the king of *Israel in Samaria. That happened in the 18th year when...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    UNTO THE KING OF ISRAEL. — As the leader of the confederacy; or as Elisha’s sovereign, who might be supposed to have brought the others to the prophet. THE PROPHETS OF THY FATHER — _i.e._, the Baal pr...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר אֱלִישָׁ֜ע אֶל ־מֶ֤לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    _THE INVASION OF MOAB_ 2 Kings 3:4 "What reinforcement we may gain from hope, If not, what resolution from despair." -MILTON, "Paradise Lost, " 1:190 AHAZIAH, as Elijah had warned him, never recove...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    MESHA'S DEFEAT AND DESPERATE SACRIFICE 2 Kings 3:13 Jehoshaphat, though erring, was still God's child, and deliverance came to him. The heights of our senseless folly and the depths of our waywardnes...

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

    At this point the history goes back and describes the beginning of the war with Moab, to which reference was made at the opening of the book. It was a combined movement of Israel and Judah and Edom ag...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, (h) What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, (i) Nay: for...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Mother, whom thou supportest. This is not an order, but a sarcasm (Haydock) which the king deserved. (Calmet) --- Christ said to Judas, what thou dost, do quickly, John xiii. 27. (Haydock) --- With w...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I pray the Reader to mark with me the astonishing goodness of the Lord. Surely here, in an eminent degree, that scripture was fulfilled, Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Romans 5:20. Is...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    However, the next chapter (2 Kings 3:1-27) brings us at once into earthly circumstances. "Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of J...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 3 AND 4. In the following chapter we enter into the historical part of Elisha's ministry. Jehoram goes to war; and, although less wicked than his father, the...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND ELISHA SAID UNTO THE KING OF ISRAEL, WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH THEE?.... An idolater; I can hold no discourse nor have any conversation with thee, nor give thee any advice or assistance: GET THEE TO...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD...

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

    _Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I_, &c.? I desire not to have any discourse with thee. _Get thee to the prophet of thy father,_ &c. Seek counsel and help of thy false prophets and of the...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Iehorams reigne. 4 Mesha rebelleth. 6 Iehoram, with Iehoshaphat, and the king of Edom, being distressed for want of water, by Elisha obtaineth water, and promise of victory. 21 The Moabites decei...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, taking this opportunity to reprove him and to work a wholesome sorrow for his sins in his heart, WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH THEE? What business could they have tog...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE MIRACLE IN THE WILDERNESS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JEHORAM, JEHOSHAPHAT AND MOAB (vv.1-27) Jehoram, Ahab's son, reigned, over Israel 12 years and followed the sinful example of Jereboam, though not doing so wickedly as Ahab, for he got rid of the i...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-19 The king of Israel laments their distress, and the danger they were in. He called these kings together, yet he charges it upon Providence. Thus the foolishness of man perverteth his way, and the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH THEE? I desire to have no discourse nor converse with thee. TO THE PROPHETS OF THY FATHER, AND TO THE PROPHETS OF THY MOTHER, i.e. to the calves, which thou after thy father's e...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 3:13 Elisha H477 said H559 (H8799) king H4428 Israel H3478 Go H3212 (H8798) prophets H5030 father...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    C. THE INVASION PLAN GOES WRONG AND THE INVADERS FIND THEMSELVES IN JEOPARDY THROUGH LACK OF WATER WITH THE RESULT THAT JEHOSHAPHAT DESIRES THE ADVICE OF A PROPHET OF YHWH (2 KINGS 3:8). The alliance...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    1). THE REIGN OF JEHORAM KING OF ISRAEL C. 852-841 BC: WAR WITH MOAB (2 KINGS 3:1). The interlude of Elisha's succession to Elijah having taken place in preparation for the future, the narrative now r...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Accession of Jehoram over Israel. Moab rebels against Israel. Elisha's reproof of alliance between Jehoshaphat and Jehoram. Defeat of Moabites. CHARACTERS: God, Jehoram, Jehoshaphat, Mesha,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Kings 3:1. _Jehoram began to reign the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat._ There is a small difficulty here in regard to the chronology of those times. It is said that Ahaziah began to reign the sevent...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And Elisha said unto the King of Israel, What have I to do with thee _ ASPECTS OF A GODLY MAN Elisha was confessedly a godly man of a high type, and these verses reveal him to us in three aspects:-...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 3:1 Like Elijah before him, Elisha becomes involved in politics. Here, he is consulted about a military campaign (compare 1 Kings 22:1)....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 3:11 IS THERE NO PROPHET OF THE LORD HERE? Faced with disaster, Jehoshaphat finally seeks divine guidance (compare...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 3:4. AN ANNUAL TRIBUTE ON MOAB—The custom is common in the East to pay custom or taxes with the products of the land. For a Moabitish king, with rich pastures...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 3:1 THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF JEHORAM'S REIGN OVER ISRAEL; HIS WAR WITH MOAB....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now chapter 3. Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, and he reigned for twelve years (2 Kings 3:1). So Jehoram, t...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 18:19; 1 Kings 22:10; 1 Kings 22:11; 1 Kings 22:22; 1

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    What have I, &c. — I desire to have no discourse with thee. Get thee — To the calves, which thou after thy father's example dost worship; and to the Baals which thy mother yet worshippeth by thy permi...

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