
Text -- 2 Kings 2:8 (NET)




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Wesley -> 2Ki 2:8
Wesley: 2Ki 2:8 - -- These waters of old yielded to the ark, now to the prophet's mantle; which to those that wanted the ark, was an equivalent token of God's presence. Wh...
These waters of old yielded to the ark, now to the prophet's mantle; which to those that wanted the ark, was an equivalent token of God's presence. When God will take his children to himself, death is the Jordan, which they must pass through. And they find a way thro' it, a safe and comfortable way. The death of Christ has divided those waters, that the ransomed of the Lord may pass over.
JFB -> 2Ki 2:8
Like the rod of Moses, it had the divinely operating power of the Spirit.
Clarke: 2Ki 2:8 - -- Took his mantle - Την μηλωτην αυτου, his sheep-skin, says the Septuagint. The skins of beasts, dressed with the hair on, were former...
Took his mantle -

Clarke: 2Ki 2:8 - -- They were divided hither and thither - This was a most astonishing miracle, and could be performed only by the almighty power of God.
They were divided hither and thither - This was a most astonishing miracle, and could be performed only by the almighty power of God.
TSK -> 2Ki 2:8
TSK: 2Ki 2:8 - -- his mantle : Την μηλωτην αυτου , his sheep skin, says the Septuagint; the skins of sheep being formerly worn by prophets as the sim...

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Barnes -> 2Ki 2:8
Barnes: 2Ki 2:8 - -- They were divided ... - The attestation to the divine mission of Elijah furnished by this miracle would tend to place him upon a par in the tho...
They were divided ... - The attestation to the divine mission of Elijah furnished by this miracle would tend to place him upon a par in the thoughts of men with the two great leaders of the nation named in the marginal references.
Haydock -> 2Ki 2:8
Haydock: 2Ki 2:8 - -- Mantle. Septuagint Greek: meloten, "sheep skin," (Menochius) such as the prophets wore. The Syriac explains it of an ornament or bandage of the h...
Mantle. Septuagint Greek: meloten, "sheep skin," (Menochius) such as the prophets wore. The Syriac explains it of an ornament or bandage of the head; others, of a leathren mantle to keep off rain. Ad subitas nunquam scortea diset aquas. (Martial xiv.)
Gill -> 2Ki 2:8
Gill: 2Ki 2:8 - -- And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together,.... Folded it up close together, in a position to smite with it; this is thought to be not his ha...
And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together,.... Folded it up close together, in a position to smite with it; this is thought to be not his hairy garment, but a shorter robe, that was worn upon his shoulders; but the Greek version renders it by "melotes", and so in 2Ki 2:14, which, according to Isidore l, was a goat's skin, hanging down from the neck, and girt at the loins; and being thus clothed, perhaps, may be the reason of his being called an hairy man, 2Ki 1:8,
and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither; just as Moses lifted up his rod, and the waters of the sea were divided for the Israelites:
so that they two went over on dry ground; in like manner as the Israelites did through the sea.

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TSK Synopsis -> 2Ki 2:1-25
TSK Synopsis: 2Ki 2:1-25 - --1 Elijah, taking his leave of Elisha, with his mantle divides Jordan;9 and, granting Elisha his request, is taken up by a fiery chariot into heaven.12...
MHCC -> 2Ki 2:1-8
MHCC: 2Ki 2:1-8 - --The Lord had let Elijah know that his time was at hand. He therefore went to the different schools of the prophets to give them his last exhortations ...
Matthew Henry -> 2Ki 2:1-8
Matthew Henry: 2Ki 2:1-8 - -- Elijah's times, and the events concerning him, are as little dated as those of any great man in scripture; we are not told of his age, nor in what y...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 2Ki 2:8
Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ki 2:8 - --
When they reached the Jordan, Elijah took his prophet's cloak, rolled it up ( גּלם , ἁπ. λεγ. convolvit ), and smote the water with i...
Constable -> 2Ki 2:1--8:16; 2Ki 2:1-14
Constable: 2Ki 2:1--8:16 - --4. Jehoram's evil reign in Israel 2:1-8:15
Jehoram reigned 12 years in Israel (852-841 B.C.). Hi...
