2 Kings 13:20

Here is no account of the prophet's funeral, or of Israel's lamentation over him. Reader! doth not the death of the servants of our Lord always remind thee, and call forth holy joy in the heart, that though all die, yet Jesus the Master liveth forever! Sweet thought! And oh! the preciousness of the consolation. Thou art forever the same, blessed Jesus, and thy years do not fail. Hebrews 1:12. The invasion by the Moabites the same year as the prophet died, is remarkable. Not unfrequently, before the Lord brings on a judgment on a guilty land, he houseth his servants. Noah was taken into the ark before the flood. Lot sent out of Sodom before the overthrow.