Exo 31:3, Num 11:17, 1Ki 3:9, 12, 2Ki 2:9, 15, Isa 11:2, Dan 6:3 | TSK | STEP | filled. the spirit of God.{Ruach Elohim,} rather, "a spirit of God;" which is a usual Hebraism, signifying "an excellent spirit;" or, as we should now say, "a distinguished genius for the work he had to perform." No man, by course of reading or study, ever acquired a genius of any kind: we call it natural, and say it was born with the man: Moses teaches us to consider it divine. The prophet Isaiah, (ch. 28:24-29,) pointedly refers to this sort of teaching as coming from God, even in the most common and less difficult arts of life. Dark as the heathens were, yet they acknowledged that all talents and the seeds of all arts came from God.

Exodus 31:3

filled.

35:31; 1Ki 3:9; 7:14; Isa 28:6,26; 1Co 12:4-11

the spirit of God.{Ruach Elohim,} rather, "a spirit of God;" which is a usual Hebraism, signifying "an excellent spirit;" or, as we should now say, "a distinguished genius for the work he had to perform." No man, by course of reading or study, ever acquired a genius of any kind: we call it natural, and say it was born with the man: Moses teaches us to consider it divine. The prophet Isaiah, (ch. 28:24-29,) pointedly refers to this sort of teaching as coming from God, even in the most common and less difficult arts of life. Dark as the heathens were, yet they acknowledged that all talents and the seeds of all arts came from God.

Numbers 11:17

I will come.

25; 12:5; Ge 11:5; 18:21; Ex 19:11,20; 34:5; Joh 3:13

talk with.

12:8; Ge 17:3,22; 18:20-22,33

I will take.

27:18; 1Sa 10:6; 2Ki 2:9,15; Ne 9:20; Isa 44:3; 59:20,21

Joe 2:28; Joh 7:39; Ro 8:9; 1Co 2:12; 12:4-11; 1Th 4:8; 1Pe 1:22

Jude 1:19

they shall.

Ex 18:22; Ac 6:3,4

1 Kings 3:9

Give therefore.

1Ch 22:12; 29:19; 2Ch 1:10; Ps 119:34,73,144; Pr 2:3-9; 3:13-18

Pr 16:16; Jas 1:5; 3:17

understanding. Heb. hearing.

Pr 20:12

to judge.

28; Ps 72:1,2; Pr 14:8; Ec 7:11,19; 9:15-18; Joh 5:30

discern.

2Sa 14:17; Isa 11:2-4; 1Co 2:14,15; Eph 5:17; Php 1:10; *Gr:

Heb 5:14

who is able.

Ex 3:11,12; 4:10-13; Jer 1:6; Mt 3:11,14; 2Co 2:16; 3:5

1 Kings 3:12

I have done.

Ps 10:17; Isa 65:24; Ro 8:26,27; 1Jo 5:14,15

I have given.

28; 2:6,9; 4:29-34; 5:12; 10:3-8,23,24; 2Ch 1:11,12; 2:12; 9:5-8

Ec 1:13,16; Lu 21:15

neither.

Mt 12:42; Col 2:3

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 2:15

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

Isaiah 11:2

the Spirit.

42:1; 59:21; 61:1; Nu 11:25,26; Mt 3:16; Joh 1:32,33; 3:34; Ac 10:38

the spirit of wisdom.

De 34:9; Joh 14:17; 15:26; 16:13; 1Co 1:30; Eph 1:17,18; Col 1:8,9

Col 2:2,3; 2Ti 1:7; Jas 3:17,18

Daniel 6:3

was preferred.

Pr 22:29

an.

5:12,14; 9:23; Ge 41:38-41; Ne 7:2; Pr 3:3,4; 17:27; Ec 2:13

thought.Intended to make him grand vizier or {emiru'l umra.} Daniel had now been employed full sixty-five years as prime minister under the kings of Babylon; and was justly entitled, from his acknowledged wisdom, to this preference.