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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 2:21

The spring of the waters - The spring intended is probably that now called Ain-es-Sultan, which is not much more than a mile from the site of the ancient town. It is described as a large and beautiful fountain of sweet and pleasant water. The springs issuing from the eastern base of the highlands of Judah and Benjamin are to this day generally brackish. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 2:21-22

2 Kings 2:21-22. He went forth unto the spring, and cast the salt in there If the salt had been a proper remedy for the brackishness of these waters and the barrenness of the land, what could so small a quantity have done, and especially as cast into the fountain? For a fountain quickly works out any thing cast into it. But Elisha only used it as a sign of God’s power, which was to produce the effect, and to render the operation of that power more conspicuous. Therefore he says, Thus saith... 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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 2:21

cast the salt. Elisha's second miracle. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 2:21

2 Kings 2:21. And he—cast the salt in there, and said, &c.— The manner in which Elisha sweetened this fountain, and made the soil fruitful by casting salt into the water, was in order to make the miracle more conspicuous; for salt is a thing which of all others makes water less drinkable, and ground more barren. There is a fountain at this very day towards the west of Jericho, which rises about three quarters of a league above the town in the way to Jerusalem, and yielding a great deal of... 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 2:19-25

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

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 2:21

(21) The spring of the waters.—Now called Aines Sultân (“the Sultan’s Fountain”), a fine spring of sweet water, which irrigates the neighbouring plain.Thus saith the Lord.—Not the prophet’s own power, nor the natural virtues of the salt, but the Divine creative will was effectual to the healing of the spring.There shall not be.—Many MSS., and all the versions, save LXX., read “and there shall not be,” or, “arise.”Death.—Caused by the unwholesome water, either to the people, or to their unborn... 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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 2:21

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 2:21-22

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 2:1-25

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 2:21

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 2:21

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 2:19-25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 2:21

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

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