2 Kings 13:20

_AND ELISHA DIED, AND THEY BURIED HIM. AND THE BANDS OF THE MOABITES INVADED THE LAND AT THE COMING IN OF THE YEAR._ Elisha died. Enjoying a happier life than Elijah, as he possessed a milder character, and bore a less hard commission, his rough garment was honoured even at the court. THE BANDS OF THE MOABITES INVADED THE LAND. The people of Moab and Ammon began at this time to cause constant annoyance to the Israelites: for centuries they made periodical inroads upon the country west of Jordan, devastating the land and driving off the cattle, as the wild Arab tribes do to the peaceful settlers in the present day. The time chosen for these predatory incursions was- AT THE COMING IN OF THE YEAR - i:e., the spring, the usual season of beginning campaigns in ancient times. Predatory band from Moab generally made incursions at that time on the lands of Israel, because the crops were ripe...

20-25 God has many ways to chastise a provoking people. Trouble comes sometimes from that point whence we least feared it. The mention of this invasion on the death of Elisha, shows that the removal of God's faithful prophets is a presage of coming judgments. His dead body was a means of giving life to another dead body. This miracle was a confirmation of his prophecies. And it may have reference to Christ, by whose death and burial, the grave is made a safe and happy passage to life to all believers. Jehoash was successful against the Syrians, just as often as he had struck the ground with the arrows, then a stop was put to his victories. Many have repented, when too late, of distrusts and the straitness of their desires....

Verse 2 Kings 13:20. _AND ELISHA DIED_] The two prophets, _Elijah_ and _Elisha_, were both most extraordinary men. Of the former, it is difficult to say whether he was a _man_, or an _angel_ in a _human body_. The arguments _for_ this latter opinion are strong, the objections against it very feeble. His being _fed by an angel_ is no proof that he was not an _angel incarnate_, for _God manifest in the flesh_ was fed by the same ministry. Of him the following from _Ecclesiasticus 48:1-11_ is a nervous character: - 1. Then stood up Elias the prophet as fire, and his word burned like a lamp. 2. He brought a sore famine upon them, and by his zeal he diminished their number. 3. By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and also three times brought down fire. 4. O Elias

THE BANDS OF THE MOABITES INVADED THE LAND - The Moabites had been increasing in strength ever since their revolt from Ahaziah 2 Kings 1:1. The defeat which they suffered at the hands of Jehoram and Jehoshaphat 2 Kings 3:24 did not affect their subjugation. They spread themselves into the country north of the Arnon Isaiah 16:2, and thence proceeded to make plundering expeditious year by year into Samaria, in Spring. This was the natural season for incursions, as then in Palestine the crops began to be ripe....

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

AND ELISHA DIED, AND THEY BURIED HIM,.... In Samaria. Epiphanius says n, in Sebastopolis of Samaria, Samaria itself was called Sebaste in later times; though the Jews say o he was buried in Mount Carmel, in the cave of Elijah; according to the Jewish chronology p, he died in the tenth year of Joash, and he prophesied more than sixty years; sixty six, as Abarbinel, since he began to prophesy in the nineteenth year of Jehoshaphat; and, according to Clemens q of Alexandria, when he was forty years of age; but it seems rather, as Kimchi observes, that he died in the beginning of the reign of Joash, and even before his father's death, when he was a partner with him in the throne, and before any salvation or deliverance from the Syrians was wrought: AND THE BANDS OF THE MOABITES INVADED THE LAND AT THE COMING IN OF THE YEAR; at the spring of the year, when there was fruit on the earth, those...

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.

DIED. He was called in the days of Ahab (1 Kings 19:19), and ministered fifty years. COMING IN OF THE YEAR: i.e. the spring. Compare 2 Samuel 11:1....