SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:20
¶ Y murió Eliseo, y lo sepultaron. Entrado el año vinieron ejércitos de moabitas a la tierra.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 13:20
Verse 20. And Elisha died] The two prophets, Elijah and Elisha, were both most extraordinary men. Of the former, it is difficult to say whether he was a man, or an angel in a human body. The arguments for this latter opinion are strong, the objections against it very feeble. His being fed by an angel is no proof that he was not an angel incarnate, for God manifest in the flesh was fed by the same ministry. Of him the following from Ecclesiasticus (chap. xlviii. 1-11) is a nervous character:- 1. Then stood up Elias the prophet as fire, and his word burned like a lamp. 2. He brought a sore famine upon them, and by his zeal he diminished their number.
3. By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and also three times brought down fire.
4. O Elias, how wast thou honoured in thy wondrous deeds! and who may glory like unto thee! 5. Who didst raise up a dead man from death, and his soul from the place of the dead, by the word of the Most High: 6. Who broughtest kings to destruction, and honourable men from their bed: 7. Who heardest the rebuke of the Lord in Sinai, and in Horeb the judgment of vengeance: 8. Who anointedst kings to take revenge, and prophets to succeed after him: 9. Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire, and in a chariot of fiery horses: 10. Who wast ordained for reproofs in their times to pacify the wrath of the Lord's judgment, before it brake forth into fury; and to turn the heart of the father unto the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.
11. Blessed are they that saw thee, and slept in love; for we shall surely live.
Elisha was not less eminent than Elijah; the history of his ministry is more detailed than that of his master, and his miracles are various and stupendous. In many things there is a striking likeness between him and our blessed Lord, and especially in the very beneficent miracles which he wrought. Of him the same author gives this character, ib. ver. 12-14: Elisha was filled with his spirit: whilst he lived he was not moved with the presence of any prince; neither could any bring him into subjection.
Nothing could overcome him; and after his death his body prophesied, i.e., raised a dead man to life, as we learn from the following verse. He did wonders in his life, and at his death there his works marvellous; perhaps referring to his last acts with Joash.
The bands of the Moabites] Marauding parties; such as those mentioned chap. v. 2.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 20. And Elisha died, and they buried him , etc.] In Samaria.
Epiphanius says f136 , in Sebastopolis of Samaria, Samaria itself was called Sebaste in later times; though the Jews say he was buried in Mount Carmel, in the cave of Elijah; according to the Jewish chronology f138 , he died in the tenth year of Joash, and he prophesied more than sixty years; sixty six, as Abarbinel, since he began to prophesy in the nineteenth year of Jehoshaphat; and, according to Clemens of Alexandria, when he was forty years of age; but it seems rather, as Kimchi observes, that he died in the beginning of the reign of Joash, and even before his father’s death, when he was a partner with him in the throne, and before any salvation or deliverance from the Syrians was wrought: and the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year ; at the spring of the year, when there was fruit on the earth, those troops of robbers came to plunder and spoil; several of the Jewish writers observe, that in the word for “coming”, h is instead of a , and so may be rendered “in that year”, in that selfsame year that Elisha died; and so read the Syriac, Arabic, and the Vulgate Latin versions.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20-25 - God has many ways to chastise a provoking people. Trouble come 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' faithful prophets is a presage of coming judgments. His dead body was means of giving life to another dead body. This miracle was confirmation of his prophecies. And it may have reference to Christ, be whose death and burial, the grave is made a safe and happy passage to life to all believers. Jehoash was successful against the Syrians, jus as often as he had struck the ground with the arrows, then a stop wa put to his victories. Many have repented, when too late, of distrust and the straitness of their desires __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וימת 4191 אלישׁע 477 ויקברהו 6912 וגדודי 1416 מואב 4124 יבאו 935 בארץ 776 בא 935 שׁנה׃ 8141
