2 Kings 13:14

_NOW ELISHA WAS FALLEN SICK OF HIS SICKNESS WHEREOF HE DIED. AND JOASH THE KING OF ISRAEL CAME DOWN UNTO HIM, AND WEPT OVER HIS FACE, AND SAID, O MY FATHER, MY FATHER, THE CHARIOT OF ISRAEL, AND THE HORSEMEN THEREOF._ 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 ... CAME ... AND WEPT OVER HIS FACE - 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 death would occasion to the kingdom. MY FATHER, MY FATHER ... - (see the notes at 2 Kings 2:12.) These word seem to have been a complimentary phrase, applied to one who was thought an

10-19 Jehoash, the king, came to Elisha, to receive his dying counsel and blessing. It may turn much to our spiritual advantage, to attend the sick-beds and death-beds of good men, that we may be encouraged in religion by the living comforts they have from it in a dying hour. Elisha assured the king of his success; yet he must look up to God for direction and strength; must reckon his own hands not enough, but go on, in dependence upon Divine aid. The trembling hands of the dying prophet, as they signified the power of God, gave this arrow more force than the hands of the king in his full strength. By contemning the sign, the king lost the thing signified, to the grief of the dying prophet. It is a trouble to good men, to see those to whom they wish well, forsake their own mercies, and to see them lose advantages against spiritual enemies....

Verse 2 Kings 13:14. _NOW ELISHA WAS FALLEN SICK_] This is supposed to have taken place in the _tenth_ year of Joash; and if so, Elisha must have prophesied about _sixty-five_ years. _O MY FATHER, MY FATHER_] "What shall I do now thou art dying? thou art the only defense of Israel." He accosts him with the same words which himself spoke to Elijah when he was translated; see 2 Kings 2:12, and the note there....

The closing scene of Elisha’s life. It was now at least sixty-three years since his call, so that he was at this time very possibly above ninety. He seems to have lived in almost complete retirement from the time he sent the young prophet to anoint Jehu king 2 Kings 9:1. And now it was not he who sought the king, but the king who sought him. Apparently, the special function of the two great Israelite prophets (Elijah and Elisha) was to counteract the noxious influence of the Baalistic rites; and, when these ceased, their extraordinary ministry came to an end. THE CHARIOT OF ISRAEL ... - See the marginal reference. Joash must have known the circumstances of Elijah’s removal, which were perhaps already entered in the “book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel;” and he must have intended to apply to Elisha his own words on that

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 13:1 REIGNS OF JEHOAHAZ, SON OF JEHU, AND JOASH, SON OF JEHOAHAZ, OVER ISRAEL. NOTICES OF ELISHA. WAR OF ISRAEL WITH SYRIA. 2 KINGS 13:1 THE REIGN OF JEHOAHAZ. The writer returns in this chapter to the history of the Israelite kingdom, taking it up from the death of Jehu, which was recorded in the clo

NOW ELISHA WAS FALLEN SICK OF HIS SICKNESS WHEREOF HE DIED,.... The prophets do not live for ever; this sickness was unto death; Elisha died, and was not translated as Elijah was: AND JOASH THE KING CAME DOWN UNTO HIM; from his palace to the prophet's house, to visit him in his sickness; which was an instance of great condescension and respect, and especially in a wicked prince that could not be reformed by him: AND WEPT OVER HIS FACE; held his head over him, and wept, perceiving he was near his end, and sensible that his death would be a public loss; the nation having often reaped the benefit of his prayers, though his counsel and advice were neglected and despised: AND SAID, O MY FATHER, MY FATHER, THE CHARIOT OF ISRAEL, AND THE HORSEMEN THEREOF; the same words Elisha said to Elijah, as he went up to heaven, which very probably Joash had heard of;...

2 Kings 13:1. _In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son, of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom._ «Seventeen years» that is a long time in which to do mischief. Seventeen years of reigning over a people, influencing them all for mischief, turning them aside from God, and doing his utmost to erase the name of Jehovah from the hearts of the people. Remember, this Jehoahaz was the son of John, who had been called to the front because of the sins of the house of Ahab. Though Jehu was brought forward to be a reformer, yet he and his race were as bad as those who were cast out. What a sad thing this is, when those who are planted where the cu

5. JEHOAHAZ AND JEHOASH OF ISRAEL, ELISHA'S DEATH CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The reign of Jehoahaz and his death (2 Kings 13:1)_ 2. Jehoash King of Israel (2 Kings 13:10) 3. Elisha and Joash (2 Kings 13:14) 4. The death of Elisha (2 Kings 13:20) 5. Hazael and his death (2 Kings 13:22) Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, reigned after the death of his father (2 Kings 10:35) and here we learn that he also followed in t

THE REIGN OF JOASH OR JEHOASH OF ISRAEL. During this reign Elisha died. He is represented, as in 2 Kings 6, as Israel's champion in the great war with Syria, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof (_cf._ 2 Kings 2:12). 2 Kings 13:16_ _ f. The action is a piece of sympathetic magic (_cf._ Exodus 17:9; Joshua 8:18; Joshua 8:26), but it is something more. The Hebrews thought of the prophetic word as achieving its own fulfilment (Isaiah 55:10 f.

SICK OF HIS SICKNESS. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6, Elisha's long ministry of sixty-six years was now drawing to. close, after forty-five years' silence. We hear of no sickness of Elijah. MY FATHER. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis._ THE CHARIOT OF ISRAEL.. memory of 2 Kings 2:12, wondering whether his end would be like Elijah's....