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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 13:14

Joash.. unto him] Both Elijah and Elisha, though strenuous antagonists to the religion of Baal, yet seem to have tolerated the worship of the Lord under the form of a calf, for both prophets had friendly relations with kings who retained that mode of worship. Corrupt in character as it was, it was nevertheless directed towards the true God. This passage is the first mention of Elisha since he sent a prophet to anoint Jehu (c. 9). The chariot of Israel] The reference is to Elisha, who had been Israel's greatest safeguard, a host in himself: cp. 2 Kings 3:15.; 2 Kings 6:9.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 13:14. _NOW ELISHA WAS FALLEN SICK_] This is supposed to have taken place in the _tenth_ year of Joash; and if so, Elisha must have prophesied about _sixty-five_ years. _O MY FATHER, M...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The closing scene of Elisha’s life. It was now at least sixty-three years since his call, so that he was at this time very possibly above ninety. He seems to have lived in almost complete retirement f...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    5. JEHOAHAZ AND JEHOASH OF ISRAEL, ELISHA'S DEATH CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The reign of Jehoahaz and his death (2 Kings 13:1)_ 2. Jehoash King of Israel (2 Kings 13:10) 3. Elisha and Joash (2 Kings 13:14

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE REIGN OF JOASH OR JEHOASH OF ISRAEL. During this reign Elisha died. He is represented, as in 2 Kings 6, as Israel's champion in the great war with Syria, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen th...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SICK OF HIS SICKNESS. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6, Elisha's long ministry of sixty-six years was now drawing to. close, after forty-five years' silence. We hear of no sickness of Elijah. MY...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The visit of Joash to Elisha on his deathbed. Elisha's prediction of victory over Syria. A dead body brought to life on touching Elisha's bones (Not in Chronicles) 14. _and wept over his face_ R.V. OV...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE THE KINGDOMS AT HIGH TIDE 2 Kings 13:10 to 2 Kings 15:7 Help came to Israel in the midst of the Aramean oppression from an unexpected quarter. In 802 B.C. the Assyrian king Adadni...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. THE FINAL PREDICTION OF ELISHA 13:14-25 The prophetic ministry of Elisha which had spanned over half a century, came to a close in the early years of Jehoash of Israel. His death-bed prophecy conce...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _NOW ELISHA WAS FALLEN SICK OF HIS SICKNESS WHEREOF HE DIED. AND JOASH THE KING OF ISRAEL CAME DOWN UNTO HIM, AND WEPT OVER HIS FACE, AND SAID, O MY FATHER, MY FATHER, THE CHARIOT OF ISRAEL, AND THE H...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 13 JEHOAHAZ’S RULE AS KING OF *ISRAEL V1 Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, became the king of *Israel. That happened in the...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HE DIED. — Rather, _he was to die._ CAME DOWN TO HIM_ — i.e._, to his house. Comp, the Note on 2 Kings 5:24; 2 Kings 6:33. WEPT OVER HIS FACE. — As he lay on the bed. O MY FATHER, MY FATHER. — Comp,...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (14-21) The visit of Joash to the dying Elisha. This section is obviously derived from another documentary source than the preceding. What a fresh and life-like picture it presents in contrast with th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וֶֽ אֱלִישָׁע֙ חָלָ֣ה אֶת ־חָלְיֹ֔ו אֲשֶׁ֥ר י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    2 Kings 13:10 THE DYNASTY OF JEHU Jehoahaz 814-797 2 Kings 13:1 JOASH 797-781 2 Kings 13:10;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE ARROW OF THE LORD'S DELIVERANCE” 2 Kings 13:10 A good man is a great defense to his country. Mary, Queen of Scots, dreaded the prayers of Knox more than the armies of the king of France. Perhap...

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

    Under Jehoahaz the story of corruption ran on in Israel. It was the story of continuation of evil as moral, and its consequent continuation as punishment. Readiness of God to forgive is revealed in th...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, (h) O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and th...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _The illness. Hebrew, Septuagint, and Chaldean, "of his sickness whereof he also died;" insinuating that he had been before afflicted with this infirmity. --- To him, probably in the same city of Sama...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Our minds are relieved from the relation of such awful characters as we have lately been looking to, in the history of Jehoahaz and Joash, in the very mention of the name of Elisha, the man of God. An...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    But in the eleventh chapter we have another scene of deep import and interest. There is a wicked woman and when a woman is wicked there is no wickedness like hers. "And when Athaliah, the mother of Ah...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _A TRUE PATRIOT’S DEATH-BED_ ‘Now Elisha was fallen sick of the sickness of which he died.’ 2 Kings 13:14 Elisha, one of the greatest and gentlest of Israel’s prophets, a man of wider and more endu...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 17. Walking in the steps of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the house of Jehu was no protection to Israel against Hazael. But the compassion of Jehovah...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOW ELISHA WAS FALLEN SICK OF HIS SICKNESS WHEREOF HE DIED,.... The prophets do not live for ever; this sickness was unto death; Elisha died, and was not translated as Elijah was: AND JOASH THE KING...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the ho...

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

    _Elisha was fallen sick_, &c. Elisha lived long; for it was now about sixty years since he was first called to be a prophet. It was a great mercy to Israel, and especially to the sons of the prophets,...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Iehoahaz his wicked reigne. 3 Iehoahaz oppressed by Hazael, is relieued by prayer. 8 Ioash succeedeth him. 10 His wicked reigne. 12 Ieroboam succeedeth him. 14 Elisha dying prophecieth to Ioash...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JEHOASH KING OF ISRAEL...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Now, Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died, being severely ill for some time. AND JOASH, THE KING OF ISRAEL, CAME DOWN UNTO HIM AND WEPT OVER HIS FACE, for lie realized what a loss th...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JEHOAHAZ REIGNS IN ISRAEL (vv.10-13) Jehoash reigned in Judah 40 years (ch.12:1), and in his 23 rd year Jehoahaz took the throne of Israel (v.1). He reigned 17 years, so it would appear both these...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-19 Jehoash, the king, came to Elisha, to receive his dying counsel and blessing. It may turn much to our spiritual advantage, to attend the sick-beds and death-beds of good men, that we may be enc...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WEPT OVER HIS FACE; not for any true love and respect to him, for then he would have followed his counsel, in forsaking the calves, and returning to the Lord; but for his own and the kingdom's inestim...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 13:14 Elisha H477 sick H2470 (H8804) illness H2483 die H4191 (H8799) Joash H3101 king H4428 Israel...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DEATH BED OF ELISHA (2 KINGS 13:14 A). As we have seen, in a similar way to chapter 2 this passage is deliberately put outside the regnal formulae, with Jehoash's death coming before it and the co...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE REIGNS OF JEROBOAM KING OF ISRAEL AND AZARIAH (UZZIAH) KING OF JUDAH (2 KINGS 14:23 TO 2 KINGS 15:7). The next fourteen verses very much bring out the method and aims of the prophetic author of th...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    2 Kings 13:1. _In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years. And he did that wh...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Reign of Jehoahaz over Israel and his death. Accession of Jehoash and his death. Elisha's death and the miracle at his tomb. CHARACTERS: God, Elisha, Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Hazael. CONCLUSION:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Kings 13:4. _Jehoahaz besought the Lord,_ as oppressed Israel had done in the time of the Judges. 2 Kings 13:5. _The Lord gave Israel a Saviour._ Not Joash, as some say, but Messiah, the Angel of hi...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died._ THE DEATH OF ELISHA I. A great man dying. II. A wicked man regretting the event. III. A good man leaving the world interested in poste...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 13:1 Jehoahaz and Jehoash. The story goes back to the northern kingdom, Israel, and focuses on the two northern kings who ruled during Joash of Judah’s lifetime....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 13:14 JOASH (Jehoash of Israel) weeps because he thinks he is on the verge of defeat, lacking CHARIOTS and HORSEMEN (v....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 13:14. ELISHA WAS FALLEN SICK—The prophet’s presence was felt by Joash to be a guarantee of the safety of his kingdom, and he dreaded to lose him, fearing that...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 13:1 REIGNS OF JEHOAHAZ, SON OF JEHU, AND JOASH, SON OF JEHOAHAZ, OVER ISRAEL. NOTICES OF

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now we're going to move north again to the reign of Jehoahaz over Israel in chapter thirteen. So up in Israel, Jehu has died and his son Jehoahaz begins to reign over Israel there in Samaria, and he r...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 2:12; 2 Kings 20:1; 2 Kings 6:21; Acts 13:36; Ezekiel 14:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Fallen sick, &c. — He lived long: for it was sixty years since he was first called to be a prophet. It was a great mercy to Israel and especially to the sons of the prophets, that he was continued so...

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