SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:21
Y aconteció que queriendo unos sepultar un hombre, súbitamente vieron al ejército, y arrojaron al hombre en el sepulcro de Eliseo; y el muerto tocó los huesos de Eliseo, y revivió, y se levantó sobre sus pies.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 13:21
Verse 21. They spied a band] They saw one of these marauding parties; and through fear could not wait to bury their dead, but threw the body into the grave of Elisha, which chanced then to be open; and as soon as it touched the bones of the prophet, the man was restored to life. This shows that the prophet did not perform his miracles by any powers of his own, but by the power of God; and he chose to honour his servant, by making even his bones the instrument of another miracle after his death. This is the first, and I believe the last, account of a true miracle performed by the bones of a dead man; and yet on it and such like the whole system of miraculous working relics has been founded by the popish Church.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. And it came to pass, as they were burying a man , etc.] That is, as they were going to bury him; for as yet they were not come to the place they designed to bury him at, as appears by what follows: that, behold, they spied a band of men ; one of the bands of the Moabites, which came to rob and plunder, and which was about the place where they intended to bury the man; or they supposed would be there by that time they got to it, or at least before they could bury him, and therefore being frightened stopped: and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha ; that being nearest, they opened it, or rather rolled away the stone from it, and threw the body in great haste: and when the man was let down, and touched the bone’s of Elisha ; or “went and touched” f140 ; that is, as Kimchi interprets it, being cast in, he rolled till he came to the body of the prophet, and touched it: he revived, and stood upon his feet ; which might serve to confirm the faith of Joash in the predictions of the prophet concerning his victories; is a proof of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal life, and an emblem of our being quickened through the death of Christ. The Jews say this man was Shallum the son of Tikvah, and husband of Huldah the prophetess, and was a good man, much given to alms, for which he was rewarded; and they further say, he went to his own house, and lived many years, and begat children, and particularly Hananeel, mentioned in ( Jeremiah 32:7), which is not likely; though others say he was a wicked man, Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah, ( 1 Kings 22:24) and therefore not suffered to continue in the prophet’s grave; but the former is more probable; and, according to Josephus f143 , it was the band of robbers that left this man, whom they had murdered, in the grave of Elisha. This grave seems to have been in the field, where the Jews of old, and in later times, buried, as in the field of Hebron, the potter’s field, etc. so the Greeks, as Pausanias relates f144 , and the Romans also f145 , buried by the wayside.
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
ויהי 1961 הם 1992 קברים 6912 אישׁ 376 והנה 2009 ראו 7200 את 853 הגדוד 1416 וישׁליכו 7993 את 853 האישׁ 376 בקבר 6913 אלישׁע 477 וילך 1980 ויגע 5060 האישׁ 376 בעצמות 6106 אלישׁע 477 ויחי 2421 ויקם 6965 על 5921 רגליו׃ 7272
