2 Kings 13:23

_AND THE LORD WAS GRACIOUS UNTO THEM, AND HAD COMPASSION ON THEM, AND HAD RESPECT UNTO THEM, BECAUSE OF HIS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, AND WOULD NOT DESTROY THEM, NEITHER CAST HE THEM FROM HIS PRESENCE AS YET._ The Lord was gracious unto them ... neither cast he them from his presence as yet - from the land of Canaan, where the symbols of His presence and worship were exclusively manifested....

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 13:23. _AND THE LORD WAS GRACIOUS UNTO THEM_] ויחן _vaiyachon_, he had tender affection for them, as a husband has for his wife, or a father for his own children. _AND HAD COMPASSION ON THEM_] וירחמם _vairachamem_, his _bowels_ _yearned over them_; he felt for them, he _sympathized_ with them in all their distress: _Therefore are my bowels troubled; I will_ _surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord_, Jeremiah 31:20. _AND HAD RESPECT UNTO THEM_] ויפן _vaiyiphen, he turned face_ _towards them_, he received them again into _favour_; and this because of his _covenant_ with their fathers: they must not be totally destroyed; the Messiah must come from them, and through them

The writer regards the captivity of Israel as God’s “casting them out of His sight” (see 2 Kings 17:18, 2 Kings 17:20); and notes that this extreme punishment, though deserved, was by God’s mercy not allowed to fall on them as yet....

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 THE LORD WAS GRACIOUS TO THEM,.... To Israel, notwithstanding their apostasy from him, and the idolatry of the calves they were guilty of: AND HAD COMPASSION ON THEM; being in oppression and distress: AND HAD RESPECT UNTO THEM; looked upon them with an eye of pity and mercy: BECAUSE OF HIS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB; made so long ago he still remembered: AND WOULD NOT DESTROY THEM, NEITHER CAST HE THEM FROM HIS PRESENCE AS YET; or suffered them to be carried captive into another land, as he afterwards did in the times of Hoshea....

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 DEATH OF HAZAEL THE REDOUBTABLE USURPER OF THE SYRIAN THRONE. His son Ben-hadad was less successful, and was thrice defeated by Jehoash, in accordance with the prophecy of the dying Elisha....

AND. But. AND HAD. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._...