2 Kings 1:9-14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 1:10

The charge of cruelty made against Elijah makes it needful to consider the question: What was Elijah’s motive? And the answer is: Sharply to make a signal example, to vindicate God’s honor in a striking way. Ahaziah had, as it were, challenged Yahweh to a trial of strength by sending a band of fifty to arrest one man. Elijah was not Jesus Christ, able to reconcile mercy with truth, the vindication of God’s honor with the utmost tenderness for erring men, and awe them merely by His presence... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 1:9

2 Kings 1:9. The king sent unto him a captain of fifty, with his fifty Undoubtedly with a design to apprehend him, and take away his life: for neither the untimely death of Ahab his father, nor his own late dangerous fall, and his sickness in consequence of it, nor the thoughts of death, had made any good impression on his mind, or possessed him with the fear of God: and he was so far from making any good improvement of the warning now given him, that he was evidently enraged against the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 1:10

2 Kings 1:10 . Elijah said, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down, &c. This prayer or denunciation of Elijah did not proceed from malice and hatred to his enemies, nor from a desire to secure himself, which he could easily have done some other way; nor to revenge himself, for it was not his own cause he acted in; but from a pure zeal to vindicate God’s name and honour, which were so horribly abused; to prove his mission, and to reveal the wrath of God from heaven against the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 1:11

2 Kings 1:11. Thus hath the king said, Come down quickly This man was more insolent than the former, charging the prophet to obey without delay, and not make him stay, nor think to dally with him: in which words, he doubtless spoke the sense of the whole company. Whereas the fate of those that went before them, might, and ought to have instructed them that the thing they were attempting to do was displeasing to God. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 1:13

2 Kings 1:13. And fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him Expressing both reverence for his person, and a dread of God’s judgments, being struck with the fate of the two other captains and their fifties. There is nothing to be got by contending with God: if we would prevail with him, it must be by supplication. And those are wise that learn submission from the fatal consequences of obstinacy in others. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 1:1-18

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 1:10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 1:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 1:10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 1:11

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 1:13

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 1:1-18

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 1:9

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 1:10

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 1:12

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 1:13

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