2Ki 2:9, 6:26-27, Mat 15:34, Joh 6:5-7, Act 3:6, 2Cor 6:10 | TSK | STEP | Ask what. Elisha said. a double portion.This probably refers to the law respecting the first-born, who had a double portion of the property of his father. As Elisha may have considered himself as the first-born of Elijah, so he requested a double portion of his spiritual influence.

2 Kings 2:9

Ask what.

13:14-19; Nu 27:16-23; De 34:9; 1Ch 29:18,19; Ps 72:1,20

Lu 24:45-51; Joh 17:9-13; Ac 1:8; 8:17; 20:25-36

Elisha said.

Nu 11:17,25; 1Ki 3:9; 2Ch 1:9,10; Joh 14:12-14; 16:7; 1Co 12:31

a double portion.This probably refers to the law respecting the first-born, who had a double portion of the property of his father. As Elisha may have considered himself as the first-born of Elijah, so he requested a double portion of his spiritual influence.

Nu 27:20; De 21:17; Zec 9:12; 12:8; 1Ti 5:17

2 Kings 6:26-27

Help, my lord.

2Sa 14:4; Isa 10:3; Lu 18:3; Ac 21:28

If the Lord, etc. or, Let not the Lord save thee. whence.

Ps 60:11; 62:8; 118:8,9; 124:1-3; 127:1; 146:3; Isa 2:2; Jer 17:5

Matthew 15:34

How.

16:9,10

few.

Lu 24:41,42; Joh 21:9,10

John 6:5-7

saw.

4:35; Mt 14:14,15; Mr 6:34,35; Lu 9:12

Whence.

Mt 15:33; Mr 8:2-4; Lu 9:13

prove.

Ge 22:1; De 8:2,16; 13:3; 33:8; 2Ch 32:31

Two.This sum, rating the denarius at 7 ®d., would amount to 6£. 5s.: or, reckoning the denarius, with some at 7 3/4d., it would amount to 6£. 9s. 2d. of our money; which appears to have been more than our Lord and all his disciples were worth of this world's goods.

Nu 11:21,22; 2Ki 4:43; Mr 6:37

pennyworth.

12:5; Mt 18:28; *marg: