2 Reyes 13:20

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20 Y muri贸 Eliseo y lo sepultaron. Y las bandas de los moabitas sol铆an invadir la tierra en la primavera de cada a帽o.

2 Reyes 13:20 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 13:20

And Elisha died, and they buried him
In Samaria. Epiphanius says F14, in Sebastopolis of Samaria, Samaria itself was called Sebaste in later times; though the Jews say F15 he was buried in Mount Carmel, in the cave of Elijah; according to the Jewish chronology {p}, 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 F17 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.


FOOTNOTES:

F14 De Vitis Prophet. c. 6.
F15 Cippi Heb. p. 46.
F16 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 19.
F17 Stromat. l. 1. p. 326.
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2 Reyes 13:20 In-Context

18 Entonces a帽adi贸: Toma las flechas; y 茅l las tom贸. Y dijo al rey de Israel: Golpea la tierra; y 茅l la golpe贸 tres veces y se detuvo.
19 Y el hombre de Dios se enoj贸 con 茅l, y dijo: Deber铆as haber golpeado cinco o seis veces, entonces hubieras herido a Aram hasta exterminarlo. Pero ahora herir谩s a Aram s贸lo tres veces.
20 Y muri贸 Eliseo y lo sepultaron. Y las bandas de los moabitas sol铆an invadir la tierra en la primavera de cada a帽o.
21 Y cuando estaban sepultando a un hombre, he aqu铆, vieron una banda de merodeadores y arrojaron al hombre en la tumba de Eliseo. Y cuando el hombre cay贸 y toc贸 los huesos de Eliseo, revivi贸, y se puso en pie.
22 Y Hazael, rey de Aram, hab铆a oprimido a Israel todos los d铆as de Joacaz.
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