SEV Biblia, Chapter 21:12
¶ Y le llegaron letras del profeta Elías, que decían así: El SEÑOR, el Dios de David tu padre, ha dicho así: Por cuanto no has andado en los caminos de Josafat tu padre, ni en los caminos de Asa, rey de Judá,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 21:12
Verse 12. There came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet] From 2 Kings ii. 11, it is evident that Elijah had been translated in the reign of Jehoshaphat, the father of Jehoram. How then could he send a letter to the son? Some say he sent it from heaven by an angel; others, that by the spirit of prophecy he foresaw this defection of Jehoram, and left the letter with Elisha, to be sent to him when this defection should take place; others say that Elijah is put here for Elisha; and others, that this Elijah was not the same that was translated, but another prophet of the same name. There are others who think that, as Elijah was still in the body, for he did not die, but was translated, he sent this letter from that secret place in which he was hidden by the Almighty. All the versions have Elijah, and all the MSS. the same reading. Dr. Kennicott contends that Elisha was the writer; for Elijah had been taken up to heaven thirteen years before the time of this writing. Our margin says, the letter was written before his assumption, and refers to 2 Kings ii. 1.
These are all conjectures; and I could add another to their number, but still we should be where we were. I should adopt the conjecture relative to Elisha, were not every Hebrew MS., and all the Oriental versions, against it; to which may be added, that the author of this book does not once mention Elisha in any part of his work. It is certainly a possible case that this writing might have been a prediction of Jehoram's impiety and miserable death, delivered in the time of the prophet, and which was now laid before this wicked king for the first time: and by it the prophet, though not among mortals, still continued to speak. I can see no solid reason against this opinion.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet , etc.] Not what was written by him after his ascension to heaven, and from thence came to Jehoram, even seven years after that, as say some Jewish writers f77 ; nor was it a writing from another person of the same name in those times, since of such an one we nowhere read; nor from Elisha bearing the name of Elijah, having a double portion of his spirit on him, since he is never so called; but this was a writing of Elijah’s before his ascension, who, foreseeing by a spirit of prophecy what Jehoram would be guilty of, wrote this, and gave it to one of the prophets, as Kimchi suggests, and most probably to Elisha, to communicate it to him at a proper time; and who might, as the above writer intimates, think it came immediately from heaven: saying, thus saith the Lord God of David thy father ; and from whose God he had departed, and to which ancestor of his he was so much unlike: because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah ; neither trod in the steps of his father nor grandfather.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-20 - A warning from God was sent to Jehoram. The Spirit of prophecy migh direct Elijah to prepare this writing in the foresight of Jehoram' crimes. He is plainly told that his sin should certainly ruin him. But no marvel that sinners are not frightened from sin, and to repentance by the threatenings of misery in another world, when the certainty of misery in this world, the sinking of their estates, and the ruin of their health, will not restrain them from vicious courses. See Jehora here stripped of all his comforts. Thus God plainly showed that the controversy was with him, and his house. He had slain all his brethre to strengthen himself; now, all his sons are slain but one. David' house must not be wholly destroyed, like those of Israel's kings because a blessing was in it; that of the Messiah. Good men may be afflicted with diseases; but to them they are fatherly chastisements and by the support of Divine consolations the soul may dwell at ease even when the body lies in pain. To be sick and poor, sick an solitary, but especially to be sick and in sin, sick and under the curse of God, sick and without grace to bear it, is a most deplorabl case. Wickedness and profaneness make men despicable, even in the eye of those who have but little religion __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויבא 935 אליו 413 מכתב 4385 מאליהו 452 הנביא 5030 לאמר 559 כה 3541 אמר 559 יהוה 3068 אלהי 430 דויד 1732 אביך 1 תחת 8478 אשׁר 834 לא 3808 הלכת 1980 בדרכי 1870 יהושׁפט 3092 אביך 1 ובדרכי 1870 אסא 609 מלך 4428 יהודה׃ 3063
