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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 2:19

The water is naught - i. e. “bad.”And the ground barren - Translate “and the land apt to miscarry.” The stream was thought to be the cause of untimely births, abortions, and the like, among the cattle, perhaps also among the people, that drank of it. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 2:19

2 Kings 2:19. The water is naught, and the ground barren Either it was so originally, at least as to that part of the city where the college of the prophets was; or it became so from the curse of God inflicted upon it, either when Joshua first took the city, or when Hiel rebuilt it: however, upon the prophet’s care it became exceeding fruitful, and therefore is commended for its fertility by later writers. Thus the ministers of the gospel should endeavour to make every place they come to... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 2:1-25

1:1-8:15 MINISTRY OF ELISHAElijah succeeded by Elisha (1:1-2:25)Ahab’s son Ahaziah had not reigned long when he was injured in a fall. When he sent messengers to ask foreign gods whether he would recover, Elijah met them along the way. He sent them back with a message that the king would die, because he had forsaken the true God for foreign gods (1:1-10). Ahaziah sent soldiers to arrest Elijah, apparently with the intention of killing him because of his bold words. The ungodly king lost a... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Kings 2:19

ELISHA "HEALED" THE WATERS OF JERICHO"And the men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, we pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is bad, and the land miscarrieth. And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him. And he went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and said, Thus saith Jehovah, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or miscarrying. So the waters were... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Kings 2:15-25

The evidence of Elisha’s succession 2:15-25Had Elijah still been alive on the earth, Elisha could not have exercised authority as his successor. In this chapter there are parallels between the succession of the prophets and the succession of the kings that the writer recorded elsewhere in Kings. Elisha gave the skeptics opportunity to verify Elijah’s departure (cf. 1 Kings 18:12). After all, Elijah had been known to disappear and reappear suddenly (cf. 1 Kings 18:12). The same Spirit that had... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 2:1-25

Elijah’s Translation to HeavenThe great service rendered to Israel by the prophet whose life is here closed was the stand which he made for the religion of Jehovah when its supremacy was threatened by the worship of the Zidonian Baal introduced by Jezebel. In view of such a crisis, the degradation of Jehovah’s worship by the association with it of the golden calves set up by Jeroboam could for a while be ignored, a superstitious form of the true faith being preferable to total apostasy; though... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 2:19

(19) The men of the city.—Not “the sons of the prophets,” but the citizens make this trial of the prophet’s miraculous powers.The situation of this (Heb., the) city is pleasant (Heb., good).—Jericho, “the city of palms” (Deuteronomy 34:3), had a fine position, “rising like an oasis from a broad plain of sand.”The water is naught.—Heb., bad. “Naught” i.e., “naughty.”And the ground barren.—2 Kings 2:21 (“from thence”) shows that the waters, not the soil, were the cause of the evil complained of.... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 2:19-25

(19-25) Elisha, as prophet, heals the waters of Jericho, and curses the scorners of Beth-el. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 2 Kings 2:1-25

Elijah's Farewell to Elisha 2 Kings 2:9 I. We see here the last act of a great life. It is not perhaps what we should have expected from a man like Elijah the Tishbite. But, in truth, the greatest and the strongest men are not unfrequently the simplest and the tenderest; and Elijah, whose life had been passed in vehement speech and in heroic action Elijah is thinking, just like any humble peasant, of what he can best do for his, as yet, undistinguished follower. 'Ask what I shall do for thee... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 2:1-25

ELISHA2 Kings 2:1-25"He did wonders in his life, and at death even his works were marvelous. For all this the people repented not."- Sirach 48:14-15AT this point we enter into the cycle of supernatural stories, which gathered round the name of Elisha in the prophetic communities. Some of them are full of charm and tenderness; but in some cases it is difficult to point out their intrinsic superiority over the ecclesiastical miracles with which monkish historians have embellished the lives of the... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 2:19

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 2:19

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 2:1-25

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Kings 2:19

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Kings 2:15-25

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 2:1-25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 2:19

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 2:19-25

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 2 Kings 2:1-25

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 2:1-25

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