2 Kings 2:8-25

2:8

cloak <0155> [his mantle.]

[Ten meloten autou,] 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 ch. 1:8.

divided <02673> [were.]

2:9

do ........................ energizes <07592 06213> [Ask what.]

said ... Elisha ............... Elisha answered <0559 0477> [Elisha said.]

double <06310 08147> [a double portion.]

This probably refers to the law respecting the first-born, who had a double portion of the property of his father. As Elisha may have considered himself as the first-born of Elijah, so he requested a double portion of his spiritual influence.

2:10

request <07592> [Thou hast.]

difficult request <07185 07592> [asked a hard thing. Heb. done hard in asking. if thou see.]

2:11

windstorm <05591> [by a whirlwind.]

heaven <08064> [into heaven.]

2:12

watching .... crying out ................. see <07200 06817> [saw it.]

father ... father <01> [My father.]

watching ..................... see .... grabbed <07200 02388> [he saw him.]

tore .... two <07167 08147> [rent them.]

2:13

cloak <0155> [the mantle.]

shore <08193> [bank. Heb. lip.]

2:14

hit .................. hit <05221> [smote.]

Lord <03068> [Where is.]

2:15

Jericho <03405> [to view.]

spirit <07307> [The spirit.]

bowed <07812> [bowed.]

2:16

capable <02428 01121> [strong men. Heb. sons of strength. the Spirit.]

[some mountain. Heb. one of the mountains.]

2:17

insistent <06484> [they urged.]

find <04672> [found him not.]

2:19

master ... see <07200 0113> [my Lord seeth.]

water <04325> [the water.]

crops <07921> [barren. Heb. causing to miscarry.]

2:20

Get ......... salt .... So ... got <04417 03947> [salt therein.]

2:21

threw <07993> [cast.]

purified <07495> [I have healed.]

death <04194> [there shall.]

2:23

Bethel <01008> [Beth-el.]

young boys <06996 05288> [little children.]

The words {n‰ƒrim ketannim} not only signify little children but young men; for {katon} signifies not only little, but young, in opposition to old; and {n„ƒr} signifies not only a child, but a young man grown to years of maturity: thus Isaac is called {n„ƒr} when twenty-eight years old, Joseph when thirty-nine, and Rehoboam when forty. These idolatrous young men, having heard of the ascension of Elijah, without believing it, blasphemously bade Elisha to follow him. The venerable prophet, from a Divine impulse, pronounced a curse "in the name of the Lord," which was immediately followed by the most terrible judgment; thus evincing the Source from which it flowed.

made fun <07046> [mocked.]

went up ......... traveling up .................. Go on up ... Go on up <05927> [Go up.]

2:24

called ... judgment <07043 08034> [cursed them.]

bears <01677> [she bears.]

boys <03206> [children of them.]

2:25

Mount Carmel <03760 02022> [mount Carmel.]