2 Kings 13:20

And Elisha died, and they buried him,.... In Samaria. Epiphanius says n, in Sebastopolis of Samaria, Samaria itself was called Sebaste in later times; though the Jews say o he was buried in Mount Carmel, in the cave of Elijah; according to the Jewish chronology p, he died in the tenth year of Joash, and he prophesied more than sixty years; sixty six, as Abarbinel, since he began to prophesy in the nineteenth year of Jehoshaphat; and, according to Clemens q of Alexandria, when he was forty years of age; but it seems rather, as Kimchi observes, that he died in the beginning of the reign of Joash, and even before his father's death, when he was a partner with him in the throne, and before any salvation or deliverance from the Syrians was wrought:

and the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year; at the spring of the year, when there was fruit on the earth, those troops of robbers came to plunder and spoil; several of the Jewish writers observe, that in the word for "coming", ה is instead of

א, and so may be rendered "in that year", in that selfsame year that Elisha died; and so read the Syriac, Arabic, and the Vulgate Latin versions.

n De Vitis Prophet. c. 6. o Cippi Heb. p. 46. p Seder Olam Rabba, c. 19. q Stromat. l. 1. p. 326.