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, M...
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 f...
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
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 th...
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...
The visit of Joash to Elisha on his deathbed. Elisha's prediction of victory over Syria. A dead body brought to life on touching Elisha's bones (Not in Chronicles) 14. _and wept over his face_ R.V. OV...
B. THE FINAL PREDICTION OF ELISHA 13:14-25 The prophetic ministry of Elisha which had spanned over half a century, came to a close in the early years of Jehoash of Israel. His death-bed prophecy conce...
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE THE KINGDOMS AT HIGH TIDE 2 Kings 13:10 to 2 Kings 15:7 Help came to Israel in the midst of the Aramean oppression from an unexpected quarter. In 802 B.C. the Assyrian king Adadni...
_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 H...
JOASH.. UNTO HIM] Both Elijah and Elisha, though strenuous antagonists to the religion of Baal, yet seem to have tolerated the worship of the Lord under the form of a calf, for both prophets had frien...
REIGNS OF JEHOAHAZ AND JOASH OF ISRAEL. THE LAST PREDICTION OF ELISHA 3. All _their_ DAYS] RV 'continually,' i.e. throughout the reign of Jehoahaz. 5 A SAVIOUR] either Jehoash (2 Kings 13:25) or Jero...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 13 JEHOAHAZ’S RULE AS KING OF *ISRAEL V1 Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, became the king of *Israel. That happened in the...
HE DIED. — Rather, _he was to die._ CAME DOWN TO HIM_ — i.e._, to his house. Comp, the Note on 2 Kings 5:24; 2 Kings 6:33. WEPT OVER HIS FACE. — As he lay on the bed. O MY FATHER, MY FATHER. — Comp,...
(14-21) The visit of Joash to the dying Elisha. This section is obviously derived from another documentary source than the preceding. What a fresh and life-like picture it presents in contrast with th...
וֶֽ אֱלִישָׁע֙ חָלָ֣ה אֶת ־חָלְיֹ֔ו אֲשֶׁ֥ר י
2 Kings 13:10 THE DYNASTY OF JEHU Jehoahaz 814-797 2 Kings 13:1 JOASH 797-781 2 Kings 13:10;...
“THE ARROW OF THE LORD'S DELIVERANCE” 2 Kings 13:10 A good man is a great defense to his country. Mary, Queen of Scots, dreaded the prayers of Knox more than the armies of the king of France. Perhap...
Under Jehoahaz the story of corruption ran on in Israel. It was the story of continuation of evil as moral, and its consequent continuation as punishment. Readiness of God to forgive is revealed in th...
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, (h) O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and th...
_The illness. Hebrew, Septuagint, and Chaldean, "of his sickness whereof he also died;" insinuating that he had been before afflicted with this infirmity. --- To him, probably in the same city of Sama...
Our minds are relieved from the relation of such awful characters as we have lately been looking to, in the history of Jehoahaz and Joash, in the very mention of the name of Elisha, the man of God. An...
But in the eleventh chapter we have another scene of deep import and interest. There is a wicked woman and when a woman is wicked there is no wickedness like hers. "And when Athaliah, the mother of Ah...
_A TRUE PATRIOT’S DEATH-BED_ ‘Now Elisha was fallen sick of the sickness of which he died.’ 2 Kings 13:14 Elisha, one of the greatest and gentlest of Israel’s prophets, a man of wider and more endu...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 17. Walking in the steps of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the house of Jehu was no protection to Israel against Hazael. But the compassion of Jehovah...
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...
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 ho...
_Elisha was fallen sick_, &c. Elisha lived long; for it was now about sixty years since he was first called to be a prophet. It was a great mercy to Israel, and especially to the sons of the prophets,...
1 Iehoahaz his wicked reigne. 3 Iehoahaz oppressed by Hazael, is relieued by prayer. 8 Ioash succeedeth him. 10 His wicked reigne. 12 Ieroboam succeedeth him. 14 Elisha dying prophecieth to Ioash...
Now, Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died, being severely ill for some time. AND JOASH, THE KING OF ISRAEL, CAME DOWN UNTO HIM AND WEPT OVER HIS FACE, for lie realized what a loss th...
JEHOASH KING OF ISRAEL...
JEHOAHAZ REIGNS IN ISRAEL (vv.10-13) Jehoash reigned in Judah 40 years (ch.12:1), and in his 23 rd year Jehoahaz took the throne of Israel (v.1). He reigned 17 years, so it would appear both these...
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 enc...
WEPT OVER HIS FACE; not for any true love and respect to him, for then he would have followed his counsel, in forsaking the calves, and returning to the Lord; but for his own and the kingdom's inestim...
2 Kings 13:14 Elisha H477 sick H2470 (H8804) illness H2483 die H4191 (H8799) Joash H3101 king H4428 Israel...
THE DEATH BED OF ELISHA (2 KINGS 13:14 A). As we have seen, in a similar way to chapter 2 this passage is deliberately put outside the regnal formulae, with Jehoash's death coming before it and the co...
THE REIGNS OF JEROBOAM KING OF ISRAEL AND AZARIAH (UZZIAH) KING OF JUDAH (2 KINGS 14:23 TO 2 KINGS 15:7). The next fourteen verses very much bring out the method and aims of the prophetic author of th...
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 wh...
CONTENTS: Reign of Jehoahaz over Israel and his death. Accession of Jehoash and his death. Elisha's death and the miracle at his tomb. CHARACTERS: God, Elisha, Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Hazael. CONCLUSION:...
2 Kings 13:4. _Jehoahaz besought the Lord,_ as oppressed Israel had done in the time of the Judges. 2 Kings 13:5. _The Lord gave Israel a Saviour._ Not Joash, as some say, but Messiah, the Angel of hi...
_Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died._ THE DEATH OF ELISHA I. A great man dying. II. A wicked man regretting the event. III. A good man leaving the world interested in poste...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 13:14. ELISHA WAS FALLEN SICK—The prophet’s presence was felt by Joash to be a guarantee of the safety of his kingdom, and he dreaded to lose him, fearing that...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 13:1 REIGNS OF JEHOAHAZ, SON OF JEHU, AND JOASH, SON OF JEHOAHAZ, OVER ISRAEL. NOTICES OF
Now we're going to move north again to the reign of Jehoahaz over Israel in chapter thirteen. So up in Israel, Jehu has died and his son Jehoahaz begins to reign over Israel there in Samaria, and he r...
2 Kings 2:12; 2 Kings 20:1; 2 Kings 6:21; Acts 13:36; Ezekiel 14:14;...
Fallen sick, &c. — He lived long: for it was sixty years since he was first called to be a prophet. It was a great mercy to Israel and especially to the sons of the prophets, that he was continued so...