2Ki 2 | TSK | STEP | Elijah, taking his leave of Elisha, with his mantle divides Jordan; and, granting Elisha his request, is taken up by a fiery chariot into heaven. Elisha, dividing Jordan with Elijah's mantle, is acknowledged his successor. The young prophets, hardly obtaining leave to seek Elijah, cannot find him. Elisha with salt heals the unwholesome waters. Bears destroy the children that mocked Elisha. take up. by a whirlwind. Elisha. Gilgal.

his mantle.[Ten meloten autou,] his sheep skin, says the Septuagint; the skins of sheep being formerly worn by prophets as the simple insignia of their office: see Note on ch. 1:8.

1Ki 19:13,19

were.

14; Ex 14:21,22; Jos 3:14-17; Ps 114:5-7; Isa 11:15; Heb 11:29

Re 16:12

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

Thou hast.

Mr 11:22-24; Joh 16:24

asked a hard thing. Heb. done hard in asking. if thou see.

12; Ac 1:9,10

6:17; Ps 68:17; 104:3,4; Eze 1:4-28; 10:9-22; Hab 3:8; Zec 3:8

Zec 6:1-8; Heb 1:14

by a whirlwind.

into heaven.

Mr 16:19

saw it.

My father.

13:14; Job 22:30; Pr 11:11; Ec 7:19; 9:16-18; Isa 37:4,15,21

Ac 27:24

he saw him.

Pr 30:4; Mr 16:19; Lu 2:15; 24:51; Joh 3:13; Ac 1:9; 2Co 5:2,4

Eph 4:8; Re 11:12

rent them.

Job 1:20,21; Isa 57:1,2; Ac 8:2

the mantle.

8; 1Ki 19:19

bank. Heb. lip.

1Ki 9:26

smote.

8-10; Jos 1:1-9; Mr 16:20; Joh 14:12; Ac 2:33; 3:12,13

Where is.

Jud 6:13; 1Ki 18:36-39; Ps 42:2,10; 115:2; Joe 2:17

to view.

The spirit.

Nu 11:25-29; 27:20; Jos 3:7; Isa 11:2; 59:21; Joh 15:26,27; Ac 1:8

2Co 12:9; 1Pe 4:14

bowed.

19; 4:1-4,37; 6:1-7; Jos 4:14

strong men. Heb. sons of strength. the Spirit.

1Ki 18:12; Eze 3:14; 8:3; 11:24; 40:2; Ac 8:39; 2Co 12:2,3

some mountain. Heb. one of the mountains.

they urged.

2Sa 18:22,23; Lu 11:8; Ro 10:2

found him not.

Heb 11:5

my Lord seeth.

Nu 12:11; 1Ki 18:7,13; 1Ti 5:17

the water.

Ex 7:19; 15:23; Jos 6:17,26; 1Ki 16:34

barren. Heb. causing to miscarry.

Ex 23:26; De 28:2-4,11,15-18; Ho 9:14

salt therein.

Jud 9:45; Eze 47:11; Zep 2:9

cast.

4:41; 6:6; Ex 15:25,26; Le 2:13; Mt 5:11; Mr 9:50; Joh 9:6

I have healed.

Eze 47:8-11; 1Co 1:18-28; Re 22:2,3

there shall.

Ps 107:33-38; Re 21:4

Beth-el.

1Ki 12:28-32; Ho 4:15; 10:5,15; Am 3:14; 4:4; 5:5; 7:13

little children.The words {nëârim ketannim} not only signify little children but young men; for {katon} signifies not only little, but young, in opposition to old; and {näâr} signifies not only a child, but a young man grown to years of maturity: thus Isaac is called {näâr} when twenty-eight years old, Joseph when thirty-nine, and Rehoboam when forty. These idolatrous young men, having heard of the ascension of Elijah, without believing it, blasphemously bade Elisha to follow him. The venerable prophet, from a Divine impulse, pronounced a curse "in the name of the Lord," which was immediately followed by the most terrible judgment; thus evincing the Source from which it flowed.

Job 19:18; 30:1,8-31; Pr 20:11; 22:6,15; Ec 11:10; Isa 1:4; 3:5

Jer 7:18

mocked.

Ge 21:9; 2Ch 36:16; Job 30:1,8,9; Ps 35:15; Isa 57:3,4; Ga 4:29

Heb 11:36

Go up.

11; Mt 27:29-31,40-43

cursed them.

1:10-12; Ge 9:25; De 28:15-26; Jud 9:20,57; Jer 28:16; 29:21-23

La 3:65; Am 7:17; Mr 11:14,21; Ac 5:5,9; 8:20; 13:9-11; 2Co 10:6

she bears.

2Sa 17:8; Pr 17:12; 28:15; Ho 13:8

children of them.

Ex 20:5; 1Ki 13:24; 19:17; 20:36

mount Carmel.

4:25; 1Ki 18:19,42