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Text -- 2 Kings 2:8 (NET)

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2:8 Elijah took his cloak, folded it up, and hit the water with it. The water divided, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Elijah a prophet from the 9th century B.C.,a prophet from Tishbe in Gilead to Israel in King Ahab's time,son of Jeroham of Benjamin,a priest of the Harim clan who put away his heathen wife,a layman of the Bani Elam clan who put away his heathen wife


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Water | Translation | SKIN | Prophets | Prophecy | Miracles | Mantle | Jordan | JERICHO | Elisha | ELIJAH | Death | Ascension | more
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Wesley , JFB , Clarke , TSK

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Barnes , Haydock , Gill

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, Geneva Bible

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TSK Synopsis , MHCC , Matthew Henry , Keil-Delitzsch , Constable , Guzik

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

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.

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 - Την μηλωτην αυτου, his sheep-skin, says the Septuagint. The skins of beasts, dressed with the hair on, were formerly worn by prophets and priests as the simple insignia of their office. As the civil authority was often lodged in the hands of such persons, particularly among the Jews, mantles of this kind were used by kings and high civil officers when they bore no sacred character. The custom continues to the present day; a lamb’ s skin hood or cloak is the badge which certain graduates in our universities wear; and the royal robes of kings and great officers of state are adorned with the skins of the animal called the ermine

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 - -- his mantle : Την μηλωτην αυτου , his sheep skin, says the Septuagint; the skins of sheep being formerly worn by prophets as the sim...

his mantle : Την μηλωτην αυτου , his sheep skin, says the Septuagint; the skins of sheep being formerly worn by prophets as the simple insignia of their office. See note on 2Ki 1:8. 1Ki 19:13, 1Ki 19:19

were : 2Ki 2:14; Exo 14:21, Exo 14:22; Jos 3:14-17; Psa 114:5-7; Isa 11:15; Heb 11:29; Rev 16:12

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

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 - -- 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 - -- 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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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

Geneva Bible: 2Ki 2:8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped [it] together, and smote the ( f ) waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went ove...

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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 - --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 - -- 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 - -- 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 - --4. Jehoram's evil reign in Israel 2:1-8:15 Jehoram reigned 12 years in Israel (852-841 B.C.). Hi...

Constable: 2Ki 2:1-14 - --The transfer of prophetic power 2:1-14 The Gilgal in view may have been the one between ...

Guzik: 2Ki 2:1-25 - --2 Kings 2 - Elijah's Ascension A. Elijah ascends to heaven. 1. (1-3) The awareness of Elijah's coming departure. And it came to pass, when the LOR...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: 2 Kings (Book Introduction) THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF KINGS, in the ancient copies of the Hebrew Bible, constitute one book. Various titles have been given them; in the Septu...

JFB: 2 Kings (Outline) MOAB REBELS. (2Ki 1:1) AHAZIAH'S JUDGMENT BY ELIJAH. (2Ki 1:2-8) ELIJAH BRINGS FIRE FROM HEAVEN ON AHAZIAH'S MESSENGERS. (2Ki 1:9-16) AHAZIAH DIES, A...

TSK: 2 Kings (Book Introduction) The events detailed in these books (Kings) are highly interesting and important. The account of the wisdom, magnificence, and extended commerce of So...

TSK: 2 Kings 2 (Chapter Introduction) Overview 2Ki 2:1, Elijah, taking his leave of Elisha, with his mantle divides Jordan; 2Ki 2:9, and, granting Elisha his request, is taken up by a ...

Poole: 2 Kings 2 (Chapter Introduction) KINGS CHAPTER 2 Elijah, taking his leave of Elisha, with his mantle divideth Jordan, 2Ki 2:1-8 ; and granting Elisha his request on condition, is t...

MHCC: 2 Kings 2 (Chapter Introduction) (2Ki 2:1-8) Elijah divides Jordan. (2Ki 2:9-12) Elijah is taken up into heaven. (2Ki 2:13-18) Elisha is manifested to be Elijah's successor. (2Ki 2...

Matthew Henry: 2 Kings (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Second Book of Kings This second book of the Kings (which the Septuagint, numbering from Samuel, ca...

Matthew Henry: 2 Kings 2 (Chapter Introduction) In this chapter we have, I. That extraordinary event, the translation of Elijah. In the close of the foregoing chapter we had a wicked king leavin...

Constable: 2 Kings (Book Introduction) Introduction Second Kings continues the narrative begun in 1 Kings. It opens with the translation of godly Elijah to hea...

Constable: 2 Kings (Outline) Outline (Continued from notes on 1 Kings) 3. Ahaziah's evil reign in Israel -1 Kings 22:51-2...

Constable: 2 Kings 2 Kings Bibliography Ackroyd, Peter R. "An Interpretation of the Babylonian Exile: A Study of 2 Kings 20, Isaia...

Haydock: 2 Kings (Book Introduction) THE FOURTH BOOK OF KINGS. INTRODUCTION. This Book brings us to the conclusion of the kingdom of Israel, (chap. xvii.) and to the captivity of ...

Gill: 2 Kings (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS This, and the preceding book, are properly but one book divided into two parts, because of the size of it, as the book of S...

Gill: 2 Kings 2 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 2 This chapter relates, how that Elisha accompanied Elijah to several places, and on the other side Jordan Elijah was taken...

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