2 Kings 2:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸And when they came again to him,(for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

2 Kings 2:18 —

Old words in this verse

tarry: — stay, wait.

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Jericho

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-18)

We have here an account of what followed immediately after the translation of Elijah. I. The tokens of God’s presence with Elisha, and the marks of his elevation into Elijah’s room, to be, as he had been, a father to the sons of the prophets, and the chariots and horsemen of Israel. 1. He was possessed of Elijah’s mantle, the badge of his office, which, we may suppose, he put on and wore for his m…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

14-18. smote the waters--The waving of the mantle on the river, and the miraculous division of the waters consequent upon it, was an evidence that the Lord God of Elijah was with him, and as this miracle was witnessed by the scholars of the prophets from Jericho, they forthwith recognized the pre-eminence of Elisha, as now the prophet of Israel.