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Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 13:18-19

2 Kings 13:18-19. Smite upon the ground The former sign portended victory: and this was to declare the number of the victories. He smote thrice, and stayed Through his inattention to, or unbelief of, the sign just given, concerning war with, victory over, and deliverance from Syria, or through indifference about that deliverance. The man of God was wroth with him Whether Joash, before this interview with Elisha, was acquainted or not with the nature of those parabolic actions, whereby... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 13:1-25

13:1-17:41 HISTORY TO THE FALL OF ISRAELAfter the anti-Baal revolution (13:1-14:22)Jehu’s son Jehoahaz followed the sins of earlier Israelite kings, and so did his people. The Syrian attacks foreseen by Elisha were so severe that, had God not mercifully intervened, the whole population would have been left homeless and the entire army destroyed (13:1-9).The next king, Jehoash, learnt from Elisha that he would win three battles against Syria. He would have won more, had he not lacked faith in... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 13:14

sick of his sickness. Figure of speech Polyptoton. App-6 , Elisha's long ministry of sixty-six years was now drawing to a close, after forty-five years' silence. We hear of no sickness of Elijah. my father. Figure of speech Epizeuxis. the chariot of Israel. A memory of 2 Kings 2:12 , wondering whether his end would be like Elijah's. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 13:17

The arrow of the LORD s deliverance. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6 . The arrow put for the deliverance Jehovah would give. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 13:19

man of God. See App-49 . God. Hebrew. Elohim. with Art. App-4 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Kings 13:14

ELISHA'S FINAL ILLNESS; THE PROPHECY OF JOASH'S VICTORY"Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died: and Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over him, and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof! And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows, and he took unto him bow and arrows. And he said to the king of Israel, Put thy hand upon the bow; and he put his hand upon it. And Elisha laid his hands upon the king's hands. And he... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 13:19

2 Kings 13:19. And the man of God was wroth— Whether Joash before this interview with Elisha was acquainted or not with the nature of those parabolic actions, whereby the prophets were accustomed to represent future events, he could not but perceive, by the comment which Elisha made upon the first arrow that he shot, which he calls the arrow of deliverance from Syria, 2Ki 13:17 that this was a symbolical action, and intended to prefigure his victories over that nation; and therefore, as the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 13:14

14-19. Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died—Every man's death is occasioned by some disease, and so was Elisha's. But in intimating it, there seems a contrast tacitly made between him and his prophetic predecessor, who did not die. Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face—He visited him where he was lying ill of this mortal sickness, and expressed deep sorrow, not from the personal respect he bore for the prophet, but for the incalculable loss his... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 13:15

15-18. Take bow and arrows—Hostilities were usually proclaimed by a herald, sometimes by a king or general making a public and formal discharge of an arrow into the enemy's country. Elisha directed Joash to do this, as a symbolical act, designed to intimate more fully and significantly the victories promised to the king of Israel over the Syrians. His laying his hands upon the king's hands was to represent the power imparted to the bow shot as coming from the Lord through the medium of the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 13:19

14-19. Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died—Every man's death is occasioned by some disease, and so was Elisha's. But in intimating it, there seems a contrast tacitly made between him and his prophetic predecessor, who did not die. Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face—He visited him where he was lying ill of this mortal sickness, and expressed deep sorrow, not from the personal respect he bore for the prophet, but for the incalculable loss his... read more

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